7.2.1.1. Parent-Child Department Import and Synchronization

To understand how importing and synchronizing departments works between EPC and DBP, consider the following example:

Inside the QMS environment in EPC, Corporate Headquarters is established as an organizational unit set.

*An organizational unit set is a container that holds all of the organization’s objects. These objects include organization units, roles, assets, and resources. In this example, we will be focusing on organization units, otherwise known as departments.

1. Child-Parent Department Import
   • Under the Corporate Headquarters set, Recruitment & Selection is listed as a child department of Human Resources.
     
   • For this reason, if the Recruitment & Selection department is imported using the Synchronization with EPC application, the Human Resources department will be automatically imported as well.
     
     • In the Organization Management module, the parent-child relationship between these two departments will be recorded, with Human Resources being set as the parent department of Recruitment & Selection.
       
   • Conversely, if the Employee Labor Relations department is imported, only Human Resource Compliance will be imported alongside it.
     • Despite Employee Compensation & Benefits being the parent department of Human Resource Compliance, it will not be imported.
       

       !!This limitation arises because the application currently supports importing only one level above the selected department.

     • In the Organization Management module, Human Resource Compliance will be linked as the parent department of Employee Labor Relations, without a listed parent department of its own.
       

2. Parent-Child Department Import
   • Under the Corporate Headquarters set, two new departments are created: Employee Training & Development and Employee Performance Management.
     
     • If Employee Training & Development is imported, it will be imported without a parent department.
       
     • If Employee Performance Management is imported, Employee Training & Development will be imported alongside it as the parent department.