Understanding Electronic Data Collection

Electronic data collection offers many advantages. It enables you to:

• Increase the accuracy of data entry.

• Decrease the amount of time spent on data entry.

• Improve productivity.

• Save cost.

PeopleSoft applications use electronic data collection for key material movement transactions and support for bar code printing on standard reports and labels. You can use the electronic data collection components to capture data from multiple sources, such as bar code devices, external feeds, and direct data entry.

Bar code-enabled material movement transactions are based on an open architecture so that you can select the data collection solution for use with PeopleSoft applications. With this architecture, third-party or in-house data collection hardware and software can feed transactions originating from data collection devices into the PeopleSoft system using a common, predefined interface.