Understanding Interactive Reports

PeopleSoft Services Procurement provides metrics on service providers, expenses, and suppliers to help you manage, measure, and analyze process and cost information across all aspects of the services procurement life cycle. The PeopleSoft system delivers standard analysis pages that cover the most common user requirements.

Service provider metrics provide information on service providers broken out by department, manager, purchase order, and supplier:

  • The service provider performance includes service provider rating information.

    Note: Service provider performance metrics are not broken out by purchase order.

  • Service provider length of stay includes service provider continuous assignment information.

Expense metrics provide information on amounts committed, expended, and forecast on requisitions, work orders, and invoices:

  • Expense life cycle includes expenses that are incurred throughout the various stages of the expense cycle, including entry, submission, approval, invoiced but not approved, invoiced and approved by supplier, and invoiced and approved.

    You can access expense life cycle data broken out by account, department, manager, supplier, and work order. For each dimension, you can also view the data by expense status.

  • Expense variance includes forecast versus actual expense information.

    You can access expense variance data broken out by department, manager, purchase order, and supplier.

Supplier metrics provide information on performance and rate comparisons by supplier and role:

  • Supplier performance includes requisitions sourced, candidates submitted, requisitions filled, and positions filled.

  • Supplier rate comparison includes rates that various suppliers charge for the same job role.

  • Minority-owned suppliers include the number of bids that a minority-owned supplier receives and the number of work orders that are awarded to each of these suppliers.

    Minority-owned supplier metrics are analyzed by role.