Separate company or process levels in exisiting company?

moving to HR forum...

The answer depends on your own business practices - do you need to easily report all companies together? Although you can merge company data using Crystal, HR Writer, Add-Ins, etc., standard Lawson reports generally don't allow that. A bigger consideration - do your employees move between companies (term in one, get hired in the other), or work in both? If so, you'll be better served setting up process levels instead of companies. Except for a few codes, if you use multiple companies you'll need to set up positions, job codes, benefits, personnel actions, etc. etc. separately, which can be a maintenance nightmare. Since you can set up different tax IDs by PL, I've always been a fan of keeping one company instead of multiple ones.

Thanks so much Stephanie for your input - that is pretty much what I was thinking too.
John-thanks for getting my message to the right place.

Stephanie,


My thinking exactly. My previous employer had a 2 company setup- instead of 1 company and 2 P/L .

It was a reporting nightmare, as well as the inconsistencies in the dept code, pay codes, job codes, not to mention the headaches - when a current ee 'transfers' between companies - 'terming' in 1 company and 'hiring' into the other company.

Eventually, we went to a 1 company setup, some prep work, lots of testing, but definitely worth it.

Later

Marco3535