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The reporting line is a field on the personnel record, and it is the same field approvals, permissions and reporting all read. Teams, departments and cost centres hang off it.
Change somebody's manager and the routing changes with them, immediately, everywhere. There is no separate structure to keep in step.
Because it is a document rather than a working part of the system. Somebody updates it after a reorganisation, and everything that depends on structure — approvals, permissions, reporting — keeps using whatever it was configured with months ago.
The symptom is familiar: a request routed to somebody who changed team in March.
Approvals go to the right person without anyone maintaining a workflow map. Record-level permissions scoped to "my team" mean the team as it is today.
Reporting by department or cost centre stops needing a mapping table, because the department is on the record rather than derived from a naming convention.
It will not model matrix reporting cleanly. A person has one reporting line for approvals; dotted lines can be recorded but they do not route.
It also does not do org design or succession planning. It records the structure you have.
Import the reporting line with the personnel record — it cannot be added meaningfully afterwards without redoing approvals.
Keep cost centres to the number finance actually reports on. A structure with more centres than reports is one that will not be maintained.
Leave and expense approvals route by it. Record scopes in every product use it. Loop reads team membership for capacity. Books reads cost centres for reporting. This is the field with the widest blast radius in Nest, which is why it is worth getting right at import.
The reporting line is a field on the personnel record, and it is the same field approvals, permissions and reporting all read. Teams, departments and cost centres hang off it.
Approvals go to the right person without anyone maintaining a workflow map. Record-level permissions scoped to "my team" mean the team as it is today.
It will not model matrix reporting cleanly. A person has one reporting line for approvals; dotted lines can be recorded but they do not route.
Import the reporting line with the personnel record — it cannot be added meaningfully afterwards without redoing approvals.
Fourteen days, every module, no card. Or half an hour with someone who will run it on your own records and tell you where it does not help.