Managing a large number of responsibilities can become a complex, time consuming and expensive activity. It is also very frustrating for users if they have to constantly switch responsibility if they have a number of roles, this is a big issue in 11i Global Intercompany System as you could only have one Balancing Segment Value (BSV) per GIS responsibility and there can be a large number of BSV often with one person responsible for entering and approving intercompany transactions for many bsv. For example there may be a controller responsible for approving all transactions for the dozens of EMEA subsidiaries.
When we created the new Advanced Global Intercompany Product in R12 we set out to address this issue and came up with a whole new transaction security model.