Implementing Items for PeopleSoft

Implementing items does not require additional table-loading implementation steps; you define items when you set up applications such as PeopleSoft Manufacturing, PeopleSoft Inventory, PeopleSoft Purchasing, PeopleSoft Order Management, PeopleSoft eProcurement, and PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing. In the planning phase of the 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 the PeopleSoft Application Fundamentals product documentation, with information about where to find the most current version of each.

PeopleSoft also provides component interfaces to help you load data from the existing system into PeopleSoft 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
Master Item Load Component Integration	IN_MST_ITEM_XLS	See PeopleSoft SCM Inbound EIPs.
Master Item Supplier Load Component	IN_VND_ITEM_XLS	See PeopleSoft SCM Inbound EIPs.
Item Groups	INV_ITEM_GROUPS_CI	See Item Groups Page.
Stocking Periods	STOCK_PERIOD_CI	See Stocking Periods Page.
Units of Measure	INV_ITEM_UOM	See Units of Measure Page.
Universal Item Identifier	ITM_MFG_UPN_CI	See Universal Item Identifiers Page.
Automatic Serial Numbers	AUTO_SERIAL_NUM_CI	See Assigning Serial Numbers Automatically.

Other Sources of Information

In the planning phase of the 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 the PeopleSoft Application Fundamentals product documentation with information about where to find the most current version of each.

See the product documentation for PeopleTools: PeopleSoft Component Interfaces.

Pages With Deferred Processing

Several pages used to manage PeopleSoft items operate in deferred processing mode. Most fields on these pages are not updated or validated until you save the page or refresh it by clicking a button, link, or tab. This delayed processing has various implications for the field values on the page—for example, if a field contains a default value, any value you enter before the system updates the page overrides the default. Another implication is that the system updates quantity balances or totals only when you save or otherwise refresh the page.

See the product documentation for PeopleTools: PeopleSoft Application Designer Developer's Guide.