PeopleSoft HR 9.1 PeopleBook: Administer Training

Getting Started with Administer Training

This chapter provides an overview of Administer Training and discusses:

Administer Training business processes.
Administer Training integrations.
Administer Training implementation.

Administer Training Overview

Administer Training supports your company's training needs.

With this application, you can:

Establish the company training architecture.
Manually enroll employees into the training program.
Track course information for all students, including employees, temporary workers, and customers.
Track the demand for training in an at the department or employee level.

Administer Training Business Processes

Administer Training supports the following business processes:

Setting up training programs and courses.

You set up courses to create course sessions. After you set up courses, you can group the courses in categories and subcategories to further help administer and plan training.
(Optional) Setting up training costs.

After you set up the training tables for vendors, instructors, training facilities, and equipment and define course codes and training programs, you can set up training costs.
(Optional) Setting up training requirements.

You identify training demands on three levels: general, departmental, and employee.
(Optional) Planning training budgets and run scenarios.

You can use budgetary scenarios (budgetary plans) to help plan budgets, approve demands, and track and freeze budgets. You can define as many scenarios as you need for different budgetary training plans.
Administering course sessions.

Course sessions can be divided into cut sessions. Each cut session has its own start date, end date, location, and instructor.
Enrolling or wait listing students.

You can set up different methods of enrolling students and set up waiting lists when sessions are full. For all enrollment options, you can generate letters to notify students when you enroll them in a course, reschedule a course, or cancel a course session.
Tracking student training.

You can track requirements and achieve career objectives. You can track on- and off-site training courses for both employees and nonemployees (such as contractors or temporary workers).
(Optional) Tracking student training costs.

You can handle student reimbursements for external course expenses. The system calculates reimbursable amounts according to schedules that you create. You run processes that update the organization's training costs as students complete courses and are reimbursed for training expenses. Costs are posted against the training budget.

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

Administer Training Integrations

Human Resources (HR) integrates with all PeopleSoft HCM applications, with other PeopleSoft applications, and with third-party applications.

PeopleSoft HR shared tables are available to many PeopleSoft HCM applications. In addition, data in many PeopleSoft HCM tables is available to any PeopleSoft application that is set up to subscribe to the published messages.

We cover integration considerations in this PeopleBook.

Supplemental information about third-party application integration is located on the My Oracle Support website.

Administer Training 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, data models, business process maps, and troubleshooting guidelines.