Company vs Process Level

We are a hospital that owns some physician clinics that we want to start incorporating into Lawson for AP/GL & HR/PR.

The AP/GL side has set up a GL company different from the main company for these clinics, but now that we want to add the employee information to it, don't know whether its best to add an HR company or just set up a new Process Level under the main company. I've had a consultant tell me the best option would be to set up a PL but want to see what others have done.

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sriman-shivakoti

We have ours set up in HR as seperate PLs for the other companies. AP/GL are multiple companies.

It works well for us.

unknown

Is this similar to what you are using? main hospital is company "A" in ap/gl and clinics are company "B". In HR, using company "A" and process level "X" with each clinic being a different department.

phil-brewer

We are a health system that has both for- and not-for-profit. We have separate GL companies and only one HR company; we have recently run into roadblocks because we only have one HR company. If you have the option and it's feasible, it's probably better for you to set up the HR companies to mirror the GL companies. I think it will give you more flexibility in the long run.

sriman-shivakoti

Yes to Margo. Our departments mirror many but not all of the GL accounting units.

From an S3 perspective only, if you have supervisors that are responsible for employees in multiple business, you need them to be in the same company in Manager Self Service.

I do not know how that might work with LTM and GHR.

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unknown

We have multiple companies in AP/GL but everyone falls under one company in HR/PR (different process levels). This keeps the payroll and MSS less complicated.

juergen-erbe

We do have separate GL companies set up for our physicians and regular employees, but in the HR side, everything is in the same company and split by process levels.

Unless you are in a situation similar to Carol Ann's where you have to merge two entirely different entity structures that MUST be kept seperate for 'whatever' purposes – that are so completely different that you’d essentially be setting each up independently regardless, I would recommend using one HR company and process levels.

Nothing carries over between company divisions. Take a quick look through the setup screens in your modules and you’ll notice one common denominator, _everything_ requires you specify which company you are setting it up under. Statuses, pay codes, benefit plans… everything is tied to a specific company. Essentially you might as well be using two seperate systems at that point.

Unless you actually need that separation, you are going to be setting yourself up for a lot more work and maintenance going forward if you set things up as two companies than if you just set up multiple process levels.

unknown

We also are a healthcare system with both a for profit and a not-for-profit entity and we have only one company. We have each of our "facilities" in a separate process level. Each HR Process level is equivalent to the GL Company. We have had no issues with this set up. We have several clinics as well but do not separate them into separate process levels. We only separate our stand alone hospitals and major divisions (like corporate, ambulance, etc).

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