Getting Started with PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning

This chapter provides a high-level overview of PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning and discusses:

PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning business processes.
PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning integrations.
PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning implementation.

PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning Business Processes

This diagram illustrates the PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning business processes:

PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning business processes

Implementing PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning for an organization involves designing the system's business structure, then putting that structure in place.

PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning Integrations

PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning provides policies for inventory items used by PeopleSoft Supply Planning and Inventory. You create the policies based on PeopleSoft Demand Planning forecasts.

This diagram illustrates how PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning integrates with other PeopleSoft applications:

PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning integration points

We discuss integration considerations in the implementation chapters in this PeopleBook. Supplemental information about third-party application integrations is located on the PeopleSoft Customer Connection Website.

PeopleSoft Inventory Policy Planning Implementation

PeopleSoft Setup Manager enables you to generate a list of setup tasks for your organization based on the features 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.

Other Sources of Information

In the planning phase of your implementation, take advantage of all PeopleSoft sources of information, including the installation guides, table-loading sequences, data models, and business process maps. A complete list of these resources appears in the preface in the PeopleSoft Enterprise Application Fundamentals 9.0 PeopleBook,with information about where to find the most current version of each.