Identifying the PeopleSoft Contracts for Government Contracting Implementation Steps

During the implementation process, you must examine your business structure and determine how to map your current policies, procedures, and business practices to the PeopleSoft Contracts system for government contracting.

Your implementation may contain several stages. The following table identifies some possible implementation stages for PeopleSoft Contracts for Government Contracting and potential considerations for each stage:

Implementation Stage	Description	Considerations
Planning	During the planning stage, map the new system to your business structure, practices, and procedures.	How does your business operate? How is it divided among company or subsidiary lines? What is the ratio of government funded contracts to non-government funded contracts? What features will you use and how do these features map to the kind of contracts that you perform?
Setting up the business unit and support structure	Establish your business units and supporting control tables used by the system for processing.	How many business units do you need? What kind of product structure do you require? What level of automation do you want for billing and revenue recognition plans? What other applications will you use and in what order will you implement them?
Establishing security	Decide how your internal breakdown of job functions relates to the functionality provided by PeopleSoft Contracts for Government Contracting.	Do you want to control the security access of your contracts, milestones, contract statuses, limits, fee worksheets, and so on? What users in your company are involved in the government contracting processes?
Data conversion	Convert your government contracts data from your legacy systems into your new PeopleSoft Contracts system.	How much history do you want to retain from your old system? What method will you use to convert data? Will you archive data?
End user training	Before you begin processing and managing your government contracts, billing, and revenue processes, you must train your end users.	What are the roles and level of decentralization for the people that work with your government contracts? When will PeopleSoft Contracts be in production, and when should your employees be fully trained on the new system?