ORG_ORGANIZATION_DEFINITIONS
Schema: INVviewPer inventory orgViewThe delivered view that presents inventory organizations with their operating unit, legal entity, ledger, and chart of accounts in one row — the org-mapping backbone of most inventory reporting
APPS-schema view (product: Inventory) joining the HR org tables, MTL_PARAMETERS, and GL_LEDGERS. SET_OF_BOOKS_ID is the legacy column name — in R12 it carries the ledger id.
What the badges mean
- Schema: INV
- Schema: the Oracle product schema that owns the table (INV, ONT, WSH, PO, BOM, WIP, MRP, MSC, AR, AP, GL, HR, APPLSYS) — tells you which product family the object belongs to, not who can query it.
- master
- Data class: what the table holds — master data, transaction documents, control/configuration, interface/staging, or an APPS-schema view.
- OU-striped (ORG_ID)
- Rows are scoped to an operating unit. A landed extract carries every operating unit’s rows — filter or join on
ORG_ID, and don’t confuse it withORGANIZATION_ID(see the quirks guide). - Per inventory org
- Rows are scoped to an inventory organization (plant or warehouse) via
ORGANIZATION_ID— a different partition from OU-striped tables (see the quirks guide). - Language-striped
- The table carries a
LANGUAGEcolumn (a _TL translation table or FND_LOOKUP_VALUES) — one row per language. Filter to oneLANGUAGEor a join multiplies rows (see the quirks guide). - View
- This is an APPS-schema convenience view, not a physical table. Extract the base tables it joins instead — views can be slow at scale and aren't guaranteed stable across patches.
Structural facts — how the table is partitioned, not a trap by itself
Join & extract hazards — verify before you rely on this
Fields
10 fields · 1 key
10 fields.
| # | Field | Description | Type | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ORGANIZATION_ID | The inventory organization's id | NUMBER | Primary-key field |
| 2 | ORGANIZATION_CODE | The short org code users see (from the inventory parameters) | VARCHAR2 | |
| 3 | ORGANIZATION_NAME | Organization name | VARCHAR2 | |
| 4 | BUSINESS_GROUP_ID | The business group | NUMBER | |
| 5 | OPERATING_UNIT | The operating unit (ORG_ID) this inventory org rolls up to — the org-mapping join | ||
| 6 | SET_OF_BOOKS_ID | The ledger — legacy column name kept from 11i; carries the R12 ledger id | ||
| 7 | LEGAL_ENTITY | The legal entity the org belongs to | ||
| 8 | CHART_OF_ACCOUNTS_ID | The chart of accounts behind the org's ledger | NUMBER | |
| 9 | INVENTORY_ENABLED_FLAG | Whether the org is inventory-enabled | VARCHAR2 | |
| 10 | DISABLE_DATE | When the org was end-dated — NULL while active | DATE |
Field provenance: hand-curated. 1 key field.
Boilerplate SQL
Starting point for reading ORG_ORGANIZATION_DEFINITIONS on Databricks — real DATE columns need no conversion, and the org anchor is already in place. The optional LAST_UPDATE_DATE watermark is included. Set your Unity Catalog location, schema, and org values below; they’re substituted into the SQL and the copy button.
4 parameters not filled: <catalog>, <schema>, <inventory_org_id>, <watermark>
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-- Table : ORG_ORGANIZATION_DEFINITIONS — The delivered view that presents inventory organizations with their operating unit, legal entity, ledger, and chart of accounts in one row — the org-mapping backbone of most inventory reporting
-- Purpose: Column-selected read of ORG_ORGANIZATION_DEFINITIONS — auto-generated from field metadata
-- Grain : One row per inventory org (ORGANIZATION_ID) — see the Fields section for the full key
-- Notes : Auto-generated skeleton for Oracle EBS R12 data landed in your lakehouse. Dates are real DATE/TIMESTAMP columns — no conversion needed. WHO audit columns omitted (see the quirks guide); the optional LAST_UPDATE_DATE watermark filter supports incremental extracts. APPS-schema view — land its base tables for extraction; see the table notes.
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SELECT
t.ORGANIZATION_ID AS "The inventory organization's id",
t.ORGANIZATION_CODE AS "The short org code users see (from the inventory parameters)",
t.ORGANIZATION_NAME AS "Organization name",
t.BUSINESS_GROUP_ID AS "The business group",
t.OPERATING_UNIT AS "The operating unit (ORG_ID) this inventory org rolls up to — the org-mapping join",
t.SET_OF_BOOKS_ID AS "The ledger — legacy column name kept from 11i; carries the R12 ledger id",
t.LEGAL_ENTITY AS "The legal entity the org belongs to",
t.CHART_OF_ACCOUNTS_ID AS "The chart of accounts behind the org's ledger",
t.INVENTORY_ENABLED_FLAG AS "Whether the org is inventory-enabled",
t.DISABLE_DATE AS "When the org was end-dated — NULL while active"
FROM <catalog>.<schema>.ORG_ORGANIZATION_DEFINITIONS t
WHERE
t.ORGANIZATION_ID = <inventory_org_id> -- inventory org, NOT the operating unit — see quirks guide #two-orgs
-- AND t.LAST_UPDATE_DATE >= TIMESTAMP '<watermark>' -- WHO watermark, bulk-stamped by batch jobs; see quirks guide #who-columns
ORDER BY t.ORGANIZATION_ID;Verified September 2026
Relationships
Diagram of 1-hop neighbors — join details below. FND lookup decode and translation edges are highlighted; they’re the joins newcomers most often get wrong.
Join details
ON ORG_ORGANIZATION_DEFINITIONS.ORGANIZATION_ID = MTL_PARAMETERS.ORGANIZATION_IDON ORG_ORGANIZATION_DEFINITIONS.ORGANIZATION_ID = HR_ALL_ORGANIZATION_UNITS.ORGANIZATION_ID
ORG_ORGANIZATION_DEFINITIONS is an APPS-schema convenience view. Land the base tables it joins instead of extracting from the view directly — views can be slow at scale and aren’t guaranteed stable across patches.
More Foundation tables
- FND_FLEX_VALUE_SETSValue set definitions for key and descriptive flexfields — one row per value set with its validation type, format rules, and size limits; the configuration that gives SEGMENTn columns their meaning
- FND_FLEX_VALUESThe valid values belonging to each flexfield value set — one row per segment value, with enabled/date-effectivity flags and the parent-value linkage dependent and rollup hierarchies use
- FND_LOOKUP_VALUESThe generic lookup table — every seeded and user-defined code list (lookup type + code) with its meaning and description, one row per code per language; the decode target for coded columns across every module (EBS's analog of JDE's UDC table)
- GL_CODE_COMBINATIONSEvery chart-of-accounts segment combination (CCID) stored once — the account string behind each SEGMENTn set; inventory accounting distributions and every journal line reference accounts through CODE_COMBINATION_ID
- GL_LEDGERSOne row per ledger, tying together the four Cs — currency, calendar, chart of accounts, and accounting convention; the R12 replacement for the 11i sets-of-books table, and the ledger context every operating unit resolves to
- HR_ALL_ORGANIZATION_UNITSThe master list of every organization unit of every classification — business groups, legal entities, operating units, inventory organizations, HR organizations — across all business groups; classification detail lives in HR_ORGANIZATION_INFORMATION