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Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.1 Implementation

By : Ranjeet Yadav
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Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.1 Implementation

By: Ranjeet Yadav

Overview of this book

PeopleSoft financial management applications have been recognized as a leading ERP product across a wide range of industries that helps organizations automate their accounting operations, cut costs, and streamline business processes. They offer industry leading solutions for organizations' global needs, however complex they may be. PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.1 Implementation is probably the only learning resource for a novice practitioner, who may otherwise have to rely on thousands of pages of documentation for such a complex ERP system. This book covers all the crucial elements of PeopleSoft Financials—a business processes, configuration, and implementation guide. This is the ideal one-stop resource before entering the world of PeopleSoft implementation. Beginning with the fundamentals of a generic financial ERP system, this book moves on to basic PeopleSoft concepts and then dives into discussing the individual modules in detail. You will see how to leverage financial modules such as Billing, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Management, Expenses, and General Ledger. Dedicated chapters discuss key PeopleSoft features such as application security and commitment control for budgeting. You will learn fundamental ERP concepts such as the chart of accounts, used by organizations for recording and reporting financial transactions, and how to implement them in PeopleSoft through chartfields, business units, and SetIDs.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.1 Implementation
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Processing payments


Creating payments for vendors and issuing them is one of the critical aspects of PeopleSoft AP module. PeopleSoft offers a wide range of payment methods that can be used to create payments: ACH (Automated Clearing House), System Check, Wire Transfer, Electronic Funds Transfer, Drafts, Giro-EFT and Letter of Credit. A batch process known as Pay Cycle (AP_APY2015) is used to select the eligible vouchers and create payments for them.

We'll discuss the following important steps involved in payment processing using the Pay Cycle:

  • Configuring pay cycle steps

  • Configuring pay cycle step group

  • Specifying payment selection criteria

  • Executing pay cycle batch process

Configuring pay cycle steps

Pay cycle is a group of multiple steps, each responsible for a specific task. Each step is essentially a different program. For example, if we are processing check payments, it involves distinct steps such as Payment selection (where eligible vouchers with payment method of 'Check' are selected...