PeopleSoft Enterprise Application Fundamentals 9.1 PeopleBook

Getting Started With PeopleSoft Enterprise Application Fundamentals

This chapter provides an overview of the common business processes described in Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Application Fundamentals 9.1 PeopleBook.

Because the information in this PeopleBook involves more than one PeopleSoft product, refer to the Getting Started chapter in each PeopleBook for specific implementation and integration information for the various applications, or products.

Note. Clear all check boxes on the Installation Options - Products page for products that you have not licensed and are not using. As delivered, all check boxes for all products whether licensed or unlicensed are selected on the Products page and this can result in unnecessary setup for the unlicensed products and can also cause performance issues.

PeopleSoft Application Fundamentals Overview

This PeopleBook discusses the following functionality and processes:

Defining financials, enterprise service automation, and supply chain management common definitions.
Setting installation options for PeopleSoft applications.
Defining user preferences.
Securing your system.
Defining and using ChartFields.
Editing ChartField combinations.
Configuring ChartFields.
Summarizing ChartFields using trees.
Using entry events.
Using alternate accounts.
Defining accounting calendars.
Setting up ledgers.
Using journal generator.
Using interunit and intraunit accounting and ChartField inheritance.
Processing allocations.
Setting up on-demand processing.
PeopleSoft Enterprise Application Fundamentals reports.

Implementation Considerations

PeopleSoft 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.

Each product's Getting Started chapter contains specific implementation and component interface information for that product. This PeopleBook includes information about component interface features for ChartFields, ledgers, interunit and intraunit, calendars, security, combination editing, and allocations.