Getting Started with PeopleSoft Enterprise Project Costing

This chapter provides an overview of PeopleSoft Project Costing and discusses:

PeopleSoft Project Costing business processes.
PeopleSoft Project Costing integration touchpoints.
PeopleSoft Project Costing implementation tasks.

PeopleSoft Project Costing Business Processes

The PeopleSoft Project Costing business processes are shown in this diagram:

PeopleSoft Project Costing business processes

We discuss these business processes in the business process chapters in this PeopleBook.

PeopleSoft Project Costing Integration Touchpoints

To use PeopleSoft Project Costing to full advantage, it is important to understand the integration points between Project Costing and the other PeopleSoft applications that you have purchased, such as the ones that are shown in this diagram:

PeopleSoft Project Costing integration flow with other applications

We cover integration considerations in the implementation chapters of this PeopleBook.

Supplemental information about third-party application integration is located on Oracle's PeopleSoft Customer Connection website.

PeopleSoft Project Costing Implementation

Setup Manager enables you to review a list of setup tasks for your organization for the products that you are implementing. The setup tasks include the components that you must set up, listed in the order in which you must enter data into the component tables, and links to the corresponding PeopleBook documentation.

Project Costing also provides component interfaces to help you load data from the existing system into Project Costing tables. You can use the Excel to Component Interface utility with these component interfaces to populate Project Costing tables:

Component	Component Interface	Reference
Define Standard Activities (FS_ACTIVITY_TBL)	PC_STD_ACT_INTFC	See Setting Up Activity-Related Information.
Project Costing Options (PC_BUS_UNIT_OPT)	PROJECT_BU_OPTIONS	See Defining Project Options.
Rate Sets (PC_RATE)	PC_RATE_INTFC	See Defining Rate Sets and Plans.
Rates by Employee (PC_RATE_EMPL)	PC_RATE_EMPL_INTFC	See Defining Rates for Employees, Job Codes, and Project Roles.
Rates by Job Code (PC_RATE_JOBC)	PC_RATE_JOBC_INTFC	See Defining Rates for Employees, Job Codes, and Project Roles.
Categories (PROJ_CATG_DEFN)	PC_CATG_DEFN_INTFC	See Setting Up Project ChartFields.
Source Types (PROJ_RES_TYPE)	PC_RES_TYPE_INTFC	See Setting Up Project ChartFields.
Subcategories (PROJ_SUBCAT_DEFN)	PC_SUBCAT_DEFN_INTFC	See Setting Up Project ChartFields.
Accounting Rules (PSA_ACCT_SETUP)	PSA_ACCT_SETUP_CI	See Defining Accounting Rules.

Other Sources of Information

In the planning phase of your implementation, take advantage of all PeopleSoft sources of information, including the installation guides and troubleshooting information. A complete list of these resources appears in the preface of About These PeopleBooks, with information on where to find the most current version of each.