PeopleSoft Engineering 9.1 PeopleBook

Getting Started with PeopleSoft Engineering

This chapter discusses the integrations and implementation steps required to set up PeopleSoft Engineering.

PeopleSoft Engineering Integrations

PeopleSoft Engineering integrates with these PeopleSoft products:

PeopleSoft Manufacturing
PeopleSoft Cost Management
PeopleSoft Inventory

PeopleSoft Manufacturing

You can take advantage of the integration between PeopleSoft Engineering and PeopleSoft Manufacturing to:

Maintain both engineering bills of material and manufacturing BOMs.
Maintain both engineering and manufacturing routings.
Transfer BOMs and Routings between PeopleSoft Engineering and PeopleSoft Manufacturing.
Maintain document versions associated with component lists and operation lists used in the production process.
Make mass changes to manufacturing BOMs using ECOs.
View engineering change orders (ECOs).

PeopleSoft Cost Management

PeopleSoft Cost Management uses PeopleSoft Engineering data to calculate the cost of an item based on an engineering BOM (EBOM) and an engineering routing. Using PeopleSoft Cost Management, you define engineering versions and calculate the effects of engineering changes on existing items. In addition, you can also use an engineering version for cost estimates.

PeopleSoft Inventory

PeopleSoft Engineering accesses items in PeopleSoft Inventory to enable you to specify EBOM components that are still pending (pre-approved) in PeopleSoft Inventory. This enables you to complete item initialization and approval independent of EBOM maintenance.

If a co-product can be manufactured on multiple BOMs, you define within PeopleSoft Inventory an associated primary BOM that determines which BOM is used to explode the item to lower levels.

PeopleSoft Engineering 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.

PeopleSoft Engineering also provides component interfaces to help you load data from your existing system into PeopleSoft Engineering tables. Use the Excel to Component Interface utility with the component interfaces to populate the tables.

This table lists all of the components that have component interfaces:

Component	Component Interface	Reference
Item Load from Excel	IN_MST_ITM_XLS	See Loading Items.
Define Item Groups	INV_ITEM_GROUPS.CI	See Assigning Items to Groups.
BOM Access by Vendor	EN_IC_BOM_PRIV_CI	See Defining BOM, ECR, and ECO Access by Vendor.
Define Engineering Routings	EN_EROUTING_CI	See Structuring Engineering Routings.

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 thePeopleSoft Application Fundamentals 9.1 PeopleBook, with information about where to find the most current version of each.