Common Elements Used in PeopleSoft Pay/Bill Management

Field or Control	Description
Order	A request by a customer of a staffing agency to find one or more people to perform work at the client site on a temporary or permanent basis. When PeopleSoft Pay/Bill Management creates an order it also creates one PeopleSoft Contracts contract and one PeopleSoft Project Costing project. When you have PeopleSoft Staffing Front Office installed in addition to PeopleSoft Pay/Bill Management, these two applications share the same Order component and tables.
Assignment	The placement of a resource to perform work at a client on a temporary or permanent basis. When PeopleSoft Pay/Bill Management creates an assignment it also creates one PeopleSoft Contracts contract line, one Project Costing activity, and one PeopleSoft Human Resources job (if an existing job record cannot be reused). When you have PeopleSoft Staffing Front Office installed in addition to PeopleSoft Pay/Bill Management, these two applications share the same Assignment component and tables.
Branch	Branches can represent units within your organization for which you want to track orders, assignments, applicants, and employees. For example, branches may represent your different staffing office locations. You must map each staffing branch to business units for the following PeopleSoft products: Contracts Project Costing Payables
Business Unit	Identification code that represents a high-level organization of business information. Use a business unit to define regional units within a larger organization.
Contract Type	Enables you to categorize your contracts for reporting purposes.
Contracts Business Unit	PeopleSoft Contracts business unit.
Effective Date	Date on which a table row becomes effective; the date that an action begins.
EmplID (employee identification)	Unique identification code for an individual associated with your organization.
GL Unit	Individual business unit entities typically created for accounting purposes.
PC Business Unit	Business unit assigned to the project in PeopleSoft Project Costing.
Process Monitor	Click this link to access the Process List page, where you can view the status of submitted process requests.
Project ID	The ID by which a project is identified in all tables and pages in PeopleSoft Project Costing. The project must already be established in PeopleSoft Project Costing.
Report ID	Report Identifier.
Report Manager	Click this link to access the Report List page, where you can view report content, check the status of a report, and see content detail messages that describe the report and the distribution list.
Request ID	Request identification that represents a set of selection criteria for a report or process.
Run	Click this button to access the Process Scheduler Request page. On this page you can specify the location where a process or job runs and the process output format.
Run Control ID	Identification code that identifies the run parameters for a report or process.
SetID	Identification code that represents a set of control table information or TableSets. A TableSet is a group of tables (records) necessary to define your company's structure and processing options.
User ID	System identifier for the individual who generates a transaction.