Understanding Customer Data Conversion

PeopleSoft Receivables stores customer setup information—address, contact information, credit information, and processing options—on tables that are keyed by SetID. Customer receivable information such as balances, aging information, and payment history is stored on tables keyed by business unit.

This architecture may be very different from that of your existing system and affects conversion activities in two ways:

• During conversion, you populate only the customer setup tables that are keyed by SetID.

  The Receivable Update Application Engine process (ARUPDATE) creates and updates the customer information that is stored in the tables that are keyed by business unit.

• You do not convert customer-level historical information directly.

  PeopleSoft Receivables calculates business unit balance and history information for customers based on the converted receivable data.