New from Oracle: PeopleSoft FSCM PUM Features – Images 48-51

PeopleSoft New Features Update

PeopleSoft FSCM Enhancements

The PeopleSoft FSCM enhancements were across modules as broken down by the chart below with Payables having the most enhancements overall. 

Module	Count
Asset Management	4
Billing	10
Commitment Control	3
Contracts	2
Expenses	10
General FSCM Enhancements	12
General Ledger	11
Grants	5
Lease Administration	5
Maintenance Management	7
Payables	18
Program Management	1
Project Costing	6
Receivables	11
Resource Management	3
Treasury	7
eBill Payment	1
eSettlements	1
Inventory	3
Mobile Inventory Management	2
Purchasing	11
Strategic Sourcing	2
Supplier Contract Management	3
Supplier Relationship Management	3
eProcurement	9
Grand Count	150

The New PeopleSoft FSCM PUM Features

The new PeopleSoft FSCM PUM Features – Images 48-51 included many valuable enhancements. While each PUM update will have different value and meet different needs depending on the modules you own and your business practices, a few key enhancements include:

• Across modules, PeopleSoft Enterprise Components delivers Notification Composer, which provides a centralized framework to create and manage all your notifications within PeopleSoft applications. Notification Composer streamlines multiple notification methods and frameworks into a single approach.
• Billing:  Enhanced the Fluid Billing WorkCenter by adding the My Approvals pagelet. This allows WorkCenter users who are also approvers to access approval options from the WorkCenter.
• Billing:  Enhanced the Billing Spreadsheet to be more user friendly. Navigation buttons are available to quickly navigate to the seven interface tables. In addition, the system remembers what row you are on when adding a new line.
• Enhanced Commitment Control analytics using PeopleSoft Insights dashboard. The Commitment Control Exceptions Insights dashboard provides a summary of commitment control exceptions based on the Budget Checking (FS_BP) process.
• Added the Commitment Control WorkCenter in Fluid. This WorkCenter includes these pagelets: My Work, My Approvals, Links, Queries, and Reports and Processes.
• Converted the Classic Expenses WorkCenter to the Fluid user interface. The Fluid Expenses WorkCenter includes new grouplets for My Approvals in addition to existing grouplets for My Work, Links, Queries, Reports & Processes.
• Enhanced the Enterprise Components, Page and Field Configurator to include Search Pages and Prompts. You can modify a label, hide a field, disable entry into a field, make a field required, or have the system automatically default a value into a field.
• Enhanced the Spreadsheet Upload to have the system perform a budget check when loading journals. Also added hover-over text to icons and other cosmetic changes.
• Enhanced the Spreadsheet Journal Import process to run ChartField Security checks. When a journal is imported, the system automatically verifies ChartField Security as a part of the Import process. If journals fail the ChartField Security check, they are not imported. In addition, the status of an imported journal is automatically changed to Ready to Post when the Journal Edit process is completed successfully.
• Added the Cost Reimbursable Award Insights dashboard. Visualizations provide award and contract administrators comparisons of award cost, budget and billing by award, principal investigator, sponsor, project, contract type, award period, accounting year, and accounting period.
• Enhanced Lease Administration by adding Lease Administrator Insights dashboard. This Insights dashboard provides greater visibility into current and future lease payments, lease expirations, lease counts by asset category, and lease option critical dates.
• Enhanced Mobile Technician-My Tasks to allow authorized technicians to report asset failure events from the asset being worked on. When a preventive maintenance work order fails, technicians can create a corrective maintenance work order. You can create a new work order to schedule and perform the necessary repair work or add a new corrective task to the same work order that is reporting the failure or create a service request to investigate and resolve the problem.
• Enhanced the Accounts Payables WorkCenter in Fluid by adding the Insights grouplet. The Insights grouplet includes the AP Payment Metrics, Early Detection and Monitoring, and Trend Analysis dashboards.
• Enhanced Maintenance Worksheet to display additional refund information. This improves the AR to AP integration for customer refunds.
• Treasury:  Enhanced NACHA data security feature to provide customers the capability to easily adopt a new encryption profile.
• Enhanced Purchase Order to send the PO dispatch email from buyer, system, or specific email id. You can also include or exclude buyers from the PO dispatch email.
• Enhanced Supplier Change request to define any field of the train stop as Personal Identifier (PII), Sensitive, or both. The approver also receives an alert message to review these on the Review page before approving the Change Request.
• Enhanced the Create Requisition and My Requisitions pages in Fluid to provide visibility and consistently display Supplier, Buyer, and Manufacturer information.

If you would like additional information on these PUM updates, please contact me at larry.zagata@miproconsulting.com.