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PeopleSoft FSCM Update Image 48 Overview
The video provides a detailed overview of the key technological updates, feature enhancements, and new functionalities introduced in PeopleSoft FSCM Update Image 48, which adopts PeopleTools 8.60. The update covers multiple PeopleSoft modules with a focus on improved usability, security, search capabilities, performance, and reporting.
Key Technological Concepts and Product Features
1. Terminology and Interface Updates
- PeopleSoft Insights (formerly Cabana) replaces dashboards terminology.
- PeopleTools Search Framework (formerly Elasticsearch) is now the standard search technology, with references to OpenSearch.
- Security changes affect content references, roles, and user profiles.
2. Cross-Product Features
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Enhanced Page and Field Configurator with a new Change Tracking feature to:
- Monitor field-level changes
- View history and compare values
- Add comments and attach documentation Available on both Classic and Fluid pages.
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Role-based access control to change history data.
3. Commitment Control
- Introduction of the Commitment Control Insights Dashboard for budget and expense analysis.
- Visualizations include:
- Budget overview
- Budget entry types
- Top spending departments and expenses
- Exceptions grid
- Detailed transaction data
4. Fluid E-Procurement Enhancements
- Keyword search as default for “My Requisitions” with advanced filtering via facets.
- New Relevance Sort Option with weighted sorting rules to prioritize compliant or preferred items based on item and supplier attributes.
- Advanced search operands for refined queries.
5. General Ledger
- Control over journal deletion permissions to prevent unauthorized deletions of journals entered by others.
6. Payables
- Auto-assignment option in Match Exception Collaboration Center to assign exceptions to relevant users (buyer, invoice creator, receiver).
- Performance improvements and enhancements to aging filters and match exception pages.
7. Receivables
- Ability to mark direct journals as complete or budget check them in mass.
- Option to copy direct journals from existing ones.
8. Billing
- Enhanced billing finalization with comprehensive error logging in message logs.
- Invoice inquiry now includes access to approval status, approval chain, and comments.
9. Supplier Contract Management
- Enhanced DocuSign integration to support Signing Groups for multi-recipient e-signatures.
- Synchronization of signing groups between DocuSign and PeopleSoft.
- Ability to specify signing groups when routing documents.
10. Inventory and Mobile Inventory
- Express Issue ChartField Overrides now support Accounting Tag defaults to streamline data entry.
11. Expenses
- Mileage expense entry enhanced with:
- Distance calculation between two addresses
- Autocomplete for addresses
- New feature to link wallet entries to existing expense reports.
- Process to mark expense payments as “not cashed” and reverse liabilities with updated statuses in both expenses and payables modules.
12. Project Costing
- Project Request Activity Guide provides a step-by-step configurable workflow for creating projects, activities, and team members.
- Routing based on criteria like budget amount and project type with approval tracking.
13. Asset Management
- New Fluid Work Center for quick access to:
- Interface transactions
- Pending processes
- Process exceptions
- Reports and queries
- Lease administration
- Enhanced drill-down capabilities and process monitoring.
14. Lease Administration
- Ability to capture clause-specific user-defined fields, notes, attachments, and supplemental data for reporting.
- Enhancements to payables and receivables leases.
15. Maintenance Management
- Work order purchase on-hand schedule improved to search and select contract and non-contract supplier items with pricing and supplier details.
- Indicators for preferred suppliers and contract items.
16. Additional Enhancements
- Fluid approvals link to edit transactions in payables.
- XML format support for T4A and T4ANR reports for electronic transmission.
- Billing defaults updated for collector and credit analyst roles.
- E-procurement redesign for special requests and services pages.
- Batch switch added in purchasing for improved high-volume batch job performance.
Guides and Tutorials
- Project Request Activity Guide walkthrough for project creation and approval routing.
- Step-by-step instructions on using change tracking and related content features.
- Explanation of new search and sorting options in e-procurement.
- Overview of DocuSign signing groups setup and usage.
Main Speakers / Sources
The video appears to be a narrated product update overview, likely from Oracle or PeopleSoft product management or technical team, presenting the new features and enhancements in PeopleSoft FSCM Update Image 48.
This summary captures the technological improvements, feature descriptions, and user guidance provided in the update, emphasizing enhanced user experience, security, reporting, and integration capabilities across the PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management suite.
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