Summary of "Image Highlights, PeopleSoft FSCM Update Image 51"
Summary of PeopleSoft FSCM Update Image 51 Video
Key Technological Concepts and Product Features
1. eProcurement Enhancements
- Fluid Create Requisition feature redesigned with improved search results, item history, favorites, and templates pages.
- New requisition inquiry feature added.
- Integration with Oracle Business Network (OBN) for supplier punchouts.
- Persistent cart visible at all times showing items, quantities, and prices.
- Enhanced navigation and filtering options in requisition process.
- Ability to add items to favorites or templates, with visual indicators.
- Renaming of “web supplier” to “punchouts” and improved punchout credential management via OBN.
2. Expenses Work Center in Fluid
- My Work grouplet manages exceptions, holds, pending approvals, and alerts.
- Exception categories tailored by user roles.
- Renaming and clarification of expense categories (e.g., cash advances).
- My Approvals grouplet for pending approval actions.
- Links and Queries pagelets provide quick access to frequently used links and queries.
- Reports and Processes pagelet for managing run control pages.
3. PeopleTools 8.61 Features
- First use in FSCM Image 51.
- Enables adding embedded insights dashboards to work centers.
- Insights catalog tile centralizes access to all dashboards.
- Enhanced global search with long descriptions and an Insight search category.
4. Notification Framework
- Adoption of Enterprise Components Notification Composer framework for unified notification management.
- Streamlines notifications including non-approval workflow engine alerts.
5. POFT Billing Enhancements
- Improved spreadsheet interface for reviewing and importing invoice data.
- Single-row data entry for multiple interface tables.
- Navigation buttons to jump to relevant columns.
- Frozen header rows for better usability.
- ChartField security verification during journal import.
6. Payables and Voucher Upload Improvements
- Requester auto-assignment added.
- Buyer field as a filter on match exception summary.
- Additional fields and validations in voucher upload spreadsheet.
- Enhanced error messaging.
7. Maintenance and Auto Maintenance Process
- Ability to search maintenance worksheets by creation method and auto maintenance method.
- Viewing algorithm group IDs used by auto maintenance.
8. Project Costing to General Ledger Integration
- New process to send project costing transactions to general ledger.
- Allows specifying fiscal years and periods.
- Streamlines reconciliation between project costing and GL.
9. Asset Management Fluid Conversion
- Service request inbox converted to fluid UI.
- Search, view, modify, and add service requests.
- Create or associate work orders with service requests.
- Detailed work order information displayed to aid selection.
10. Additional FSCM Features
- Receivables: Support for accounting tags and direct journal payments in collections workbench.
- Billing: Auto-pull address info into courtesy copy address page.
- Purchasing: PO dispatch email customization and buyer inclusion/exclusion.
- Procurement Contracts: Import automation and contract maintenance enhancements.
- Supplier Portal: Two-factor authentication added.
- Supplier Contract Management: Reuse of canceled amendment sequence numbers.
- Inventory: Lot expiration date added to advanced shipping notices (EDI/XML).
- Grant and Contract: Updates for terminology changes and sponsor display.
- Resource Manager: Enhancements with Drop Zones.
- Asset Management: Enhanced load net book value process.
- Lease Administration: Approval workflows for lease activation/amendments.
- Maintenance Management: Auto-inactivation of preventive maintenance schedules with HED assets.
Guides, Reviews, or Tutorials
- The video serves as a demonstration and feature overview of FSCM Update Image 51.
- Highlights how to navigate and use new UI elements such as fluid requisition pages and the service request inbox.
- Describes process improvements and integration points, including OBN punchouts and project costing to GL.
- Provides step-by-step insights into spreadsheet enhancements for billing and voucher upload.
- Points users to additional resources like the CFO tool, Oracle My Support, and PeopleSoft Information Portal for more details.
Main Speakers / Sources
- The video does not explicitly name speakers but is presented as an official Oracle PeopleSoft product update/demonstration.
- Information appears to be delivered by Oracle product experts or documentation narrators.
- References to Oracle tools and portals suggest the source is Oracle’s official FSCM update communications.
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