Using PeopleSoft

Learn how to implement the PeopleSoft Applications in your company

Several PeopleSoft employees, including the Director of New Technologies, are part of the expert team of authors, giving you the benefit of the latest information, practices, and methodologies as directly developed by PeopleSoft

Gives insight into large-scale application deployment and provides insight learned from the authors' dozens of PeopleSoft installations

Table of contents

I: Introducing PeopfeSoft

II: Dave's Story

2 PeopleSoft: Where it Came From and How It Fits

3 PeopleTools

4 PeopleTools Reporting

5 Start With HRMS

6 HRMS Modules

7 Growing With Financial Management

8 Financial Modules

9 Manufacturing Modules

10 Utilizing Distribution

11 Distribution Modules

12 Industry Specific Solutions

13 Student Administration

14 Federal Human Resources

15 PeopleSoft for the Public Sector

16 PeopleSoft Web-Enabled Applicafions and Electronic Data Interchange

17 PeopleSoft Business Network (PSBN) and E-Business

18 PeopleSoft and the Supply Chain

III: Software for Re-engineering

19 Should I Do It?

20 Establishing the Baseline or the As-is State

21 Establishing the "To Be" State

22 Revolution Versus Evolution

IV: Getting the Implementation Ready

23 No Pain, No Gain: Giving Up the Best and Brightest

24 Adaptation Versus Custornization

25 Implementation Services

V: Starting the Implementation

26 Project Planning

27 Project Tracking

28 Project infrastructure

29 Project Public Relations

30 Prototyping

31 Integrating PeopleSoft with Existing Applications

32 Implementation Pitfalls

VII: As the System Rolls Out

33 Training, Education, and Support

34 The Enterprise Warehouse

VIII: Taking PeopleSoft to the Next Millennium

35 PeopleSoft 2000 and Beyond

Appendixes

A Working with Systems Integrators

B PeopleSoft Web Sites

C PeopleSoft Partner Program