Learn about the PeopleSoft FSCM Image #46 release and the list of features that stand out

PeopleSoft FSCM Update Image #46 has been generally available since 5 December 2022, and it contains many important new functional enhancements.

Customers can selectively adopt new features and enhancements using the PeopleSoft Update Manager.

If you haven’t heard what has been released as part of Update Image #46 here are some highlights:

Billing

Determine Roles to Delete Attachments

Enhanced invoicing to restrict users from deleting attachments from Supporting Documentation pages. You can configure your system so that specific roles can delete attachments using the Installation Options – Billing: General Options page. When using this feature, the user who attached the document can delete attachments regardless of their role.

Expenses

Determine the Source of Expense Payment

Enhanced the payment option to allow you to configure the source of payments for PeopleSoft Expenses. The Payment Destination options are Payables or Payroll and applies to cash advances and expense report reimbursements. It is defined at three locations: installation, business unit, and employee, and is used during the Stage Payment process.

General Ledger

Expand General Ledger Business Unit Management for Sub-ledger Business Units

Enhanced the Business Unit Management feature to add sub-ledger business units using the People Tools Activity Guide. This feature combines the most common components used to create general ledger and sub-ledger business units into a single location so you can use one central component. This image adds Payables as a source system. More sub-ledger business units are to follow in subsequent images.

Payables

AP Payment Metrics Dashboard

Added a new Kibana dashboard to the Accounts Payable. AP Payment Metrics Dashboard helps to view the payment exposure by currency, term, and various payment methods for the lines of business.

Business Unit Management for Payables

Enhanced the Business Unit Management feature to enable the creation of subledger business units. This image adds the ability to copy the Payables business units.

Inbound e-Invoice for Payables and eSettlements

Added the framework to support the e-Invoicing format in Accounts Payable and eSettlement for the submission to PEPPOL network. The framework leverages Data Export Import Utility (DEIU) to transform data into PEPPOL elements.

Supplier Registration Checks Existing Records

 Enhanced Supplier Relationship Management to recognize a potential duplicate registration of an existing supplier. While adding a new supplier, if supplier data is found and matches with the same field values, an error message on Save is displayed. A link to view the existing supplier and registration details is provided.

View Printable Invoice in Approvals

Added the option to view a printable version of the invoice on the Approval fluid pages for vouchers.

Receivables

Add Attachment Directly to an Item

PeopleSoft Receivables to add attachments directly to the Items has been enhanced.

Restrict the Users from Deleting the Attachments

PeopleSoft Receivables to restrict the users from deleting the attachments has been enhanced. Users with the assigned roles are allowed to delete attachments along with the user who has originally attached the file.

Treasury

Semi Manual Reconciliation for a Bank Account

The ability to load more than five thousand bank transactions in the Semi Manual Reconciliation page has been added.

Asset Management

Enhanced Maintenance History Totals

Asset Management by summarizing the total asset maintenance cost on the Review Maintenance History component has been enhanced.

Enhanced Non-Capitalized Cost History

Added the sum of the non-capitalized cost to the Non-Cap History List page similar to how the total cost displays on the capitalized Cost History List.

Maintenance Management

Update Actual Hours Worked en-Masse

Enhanced the Fluid Weekly Time Entry from My Tasks in the Mobile Technician home page to permit the allocation of actual labor hours across multiple work order tasks. This feature allows mass change or update changes to be applied using a mobile device.

A new Allocate Hours window is available for technicians to enter hours worked and apply those hours to multiple tasks. Hours can be copied to all tasks selected or split between all tasks selected.

Grants

Description for Proposal Attributes

The description fields on the Key Words pages to accommodate 100 characters has been enhanced.

View Attachment Quantity

Added visibility to the number of attachments on the milestone, funding, award modifications, certifications, and award pages in the Award profile component.

Resource Management

Canadian Job Code

Canadian NOC (National Occupation Classification) code field to support 10 characters has been enhanced.

Strategic sourcing/Purchasing/ePro

Recognize Duplicate Registration of an Existing Supplier

Enhanced Supplier Relationship Management to recognize a potential duplicate registration of an existing supplier. While adding a new supplier, if supplier data is found and matches with the same field values, an error message on Save is displayed. A link to view the existing supplier and registration details is provided.

Bill Only and Bill and Replace Requisition Types

Enhanced PeopleSoft eProcurement fluid requisition. Two new requisition types are added for the healthcare customers. Bill Only requisition is for the items which were used but no replacements are needed. Bill and Replace requisition is for the used part that needs to be billed, but a replacement part is also required. If none of the requisition types are enabled, users can create and manage Standard requisitions only.

ePro Installation Options Enhancement

Enhanced ePro Installation Options to emphasize Fluid settings.

Catalog Search Enhancement

eProcurement catalog search to use filters and breadcrumbs using PeopleSoft Search Framework common pages has been enhanced.

Purchase Orders from Bill Only and Bill and Replace

Requisition Types

PeopleSoft Purchasing to create purchase orders from Bill Only and Bill and Replace requisition types has been enhanced. Custom fields are added to provide additional information for the PO. PO type and custom fields are also displayed on the printed purchase orders.

You can also watch the PUM Image highlights video below:

PUM Image#46