Business Relationship Management in Oracle Fusion Cloud

The Customer/Prospect/Supplier/Partner hierarchy will contain the Organization/Business records’ hierarchical relationship.

A hierarchy is often a tree-like structure with branches and nodes organized based on the requirements. In a tree-like structure, each kid node or branch will have exactly one parent. The Root Node has no parent and will be the highest node in the hierarchy. A parent node will contain other nodes. A Leaf Node is the lowest node in the tree and it does not have any offspring. For any particular node in a hierarchy, the nodes above it may be referred to as Ancestor nodes, while those below it may be known as Descendant nodes.

In Oracle Fusion Applications, the Hierarchy Tree is a separate object, not a recursive join between nodes as in some other programs. This architecture allows numerous unique hierarchies to exist at the same time, and a single node can participate in multiple hierarchical structures if necessary.