Introduction to Organizations

Organizations are a way to manage distinct areas within a company. They allow users and assets to be grouped into discrete units of operation and enable workflows. These organizations can be geographic in nature, operational in nature, or both. For example, if a company consists of geographically separate warehouses, each with its own receiving bays, it could create organizations for each of those warehouses and assign specific assets and users to them. Users could also create child organizations to those warehouses to delineate operational functions as necessary, for example Receiving, Operations, etc. 

Creating these organizations within the company structure allows users to be assigned organization specific privileges such as asset management. For example, a user assigned to one warehouse can manage assets within that warehouse but would be restricted from managing assets in a different warehouse belonging to a separate company organization. It also enables request workflows. So if a company’s IT department was created as an organization, it could maintain inventory of the company’s IT assets such as laptops and peripherals, it could assign custody of them to people within the company, and if someone within the company required IT assistance a request for support could be routed to that IT organization. 

This is not to say that TVA requires or mandates the use of organizations. For companies with a flatter organizational structure or a single location, there might not be a requirement to subdivide the company into organizations. TVA maintains flexibility and scalability as a company grows over time.