SyncOrganizationalUnit — Organisational unit

OAGIS BOD combining the verb Sync and the noun OrganizationalUnit. Business cornerstone of the hr domain in the OAGIS 10.x ecosystem.

BOD purpose

The SyncOrganizationalUnit BOD broadcasts the organisational structure: legal entities, divisions, departments, teams. Issued from the master HRIS or ERP toward every system that depends on the hierarchy (BI, security, analytical finance).

Structure (ApplicationArea + DataArea)

As every OAGIS BOD, SyncOrganizationalUnit stacks an ApplicationArea technical envelope (Sender, BODID, CreationDateTime) and a DataArea business payload containing the verb Sync and the noun OrganizationalUnit.

XML example

Minimal OAGIS 10.x payload for didactic purposes. The structural elements (header + business line) are required in any conformant implementation.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SyncOrganizationalUnit
    xmlns="http://www.openapplications.org/oagis/10"
    releaseID="10.11" versionID="10.11">

  <ApplicationArea>
    <Sender>
      <LogicalID>ERP-CENTRAL-EU</LogicalID>
      <ComponentID>HRModule</ComponentID>
      <ConfirmationCode>OnError</ConfirmationCode>
    </Sender>
    <CreationDateTime>2026-05-16T10:15:00Z</CreationDateTime>
    <BODID>5a8f7d2e-2b15-4c1a-9e6f-syncorganizationalunit-2026-0014</BODID>
  </ApplicationArea>

  <DataArea>
    <Sync>
      <ActionCriteria>
        <ActionExpression actionCode="Add"/>
      </ActionCriteria>
    </Sync>
    <OrganizationalUnit>
      <OrganizationalUnitHeader>
        <DocumentID><ID>ORG-2026-051601</ID></DocumentID>
        <DocumentDateTime>2026-05-16T04:00:00Z</DocumentDateTime>
        <OrganizationalUnitID>ORG-EU-MKT-072</OrganizationalUnitID>
        <ParentOrganizationalUnitID>ORG-EU-MKT</ParentOrganizationalUnitID>
      </OrganizationalUnitHeader>
      <OrganizationalUnitDetail>
        <Name>Marketing EMEA Operations</Name>
        <ManagerID>EMP-091205</ManagerID>
        <CostCenterID>CC-EU-MARKETING</CostCenterID>
      </OrganizationalUnitDetail>
    </OrganizationalUnit>
  </DataArea>
</SyncOrganizationalUnit>

Use case

After a Marketing EMEA division reorg, Workday broadcasts via SyncOrganizationalUnit the new hierarchy in 4 nightly waves toward SAP S/4HANA, Concur and the central data warehouse.

EDI equivalents

No direct EDI counterpart on the gateway: this BOD is strictly internal to the OAGIS / ERP ecosystem, with no openly standardised EDIFACT or X12 counterpart.

Further reading

• OAGi — OAGIS 10.x — official spec page and free download.
• OAGi (OAGIS) — hub on ediverse — BOD architecture, verbs, canonical model.
• EDIFACT on ediverse — comparison baseline for BODs with EDIFACT counterpart.
• X12 on ediverse — comparison baseline for BODs with X12 counterpart.