Navigating Major Organizational Restructuring in IFS

​@Anna Holmberg : In case of organizational restructuring, you would need to mainly change the Graphical Organization Structure, Graphical Position Structure, Employee Assignment and Position Access.

You would need to take following approach:

1. If only reporting structure has been changed, you can use drag-and-drop functionality into organization and position structure.
2. New organization and position can be added wherever needed. Position Access also need to be added
3. Assign new org code and position to employee wherever required.

If existing org code and position code are no longer valid:

You can put end date of old organization and Position code. Create new org code and position, position access and assign new org code and new position to employee with new validity dates.

Hope I am able to answer your queries.

Best Regards

Hi ​@Anna Holmberg,

I was the leading IFS business analyst for a major organizational transition 5 years ago.
There are a few things where you should think, it is likely wider than just changes in the HR Module. 

We changed with Migration Jobs many things in that migration night, think of:

• Pre posting on Work Orders
• Pre posting on Purchase Requisitions & Purchase Orders
• Changed Maintenance Organizations
• Pre posting on Expenses
• Pre posting on Projects

This particular customer had an interface between SAP Successfactors & IFS, so positions etc were inserted with use of that interface.

While testing we discovered requirements like the new supervisor should still see the old Project Time Transactions & Attendance of the past 2 weeks. 

What needs to happen will depend on what change is going to happen. In my case the departments were changed, so old departments were dropped and totally new departments were created with new departments heads. 

I even found the document that describes which migration jobs we created. At that time we created them to work both with APPS8 & APPS10 because in parallel we were running the IFS Upgrade projects and timelines kept moving so we had to be prepared to go-live regardless of the used version of IFS.
 

Best Regards,

Harm