Integrating PeopleSoft Manufacturing with a Third-Party System

You can integrate PeopleSoft Manufacturing with an electronic data collection system or a Manufacturing Execution System (MES), or both.

Electronic Data Collection

You can use electronic data collection to collect completions and scrap transactions, then import them to PeopleSoft Manufacturing. You can also collect and import actual hours transactions using electronic data collection.

For actual hours, the data collection method employs the same breakout of hour types as the online method such as setup, run, fixed run, and post-production. Electronic data collection allows for individual or crew reporting as well as single or multiple machine reporting.

Use the Actual Hours EIP to import actual hours information from a third-party system.

See Understanding the Process of Recording Completions and Scrap Using Electronic Data Collection.

Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

If you're integrating PeopleSoft Manufacturing to an MES, you can record operations completed, quantity completed, and scrap quantity in the MES. You can then import completion transactions to enable the optimization of production activities from production order launch to completion of finished goods. All production IDs, production schedules, and operations must be recognized in the PeopleSoft system; otherwise the system marks the transactions as errors in transaction maintenance. You then need to make corrections so that the transaction can be processed.

For multiple output transactions, you can record actual outputs in the MES, including completed quantities for co-products and by-products. You must send the completed output quantity if the batch quantity complete is not reported. You can report only unplanned by-products, not unplanned co-products.

You can also report the serial, lot, or container numbers for items produced or consumed in production. If the produced item requires lot, serial, or container details in the PeopleSoft system, the system marks transactions sent without this information as an error in transaction maintenance. For serial-controlled components or components that are both lot and serial-controlled, the serial numbers and lot IDs must be provided to the system or the transaction is marked in error to be corrected in transaction maintenance. For lot-controlled components, the incoming data must contain the lot IDs for consumed components if you have selected the backflush lot selection rule of Manual. If you have selected the backflush lot selection rule of Earliest Expiration Date or Earliest Available Date, then the incoming files are not required to have a lot ID for consumed components.

You can also report component consumption and communicate it to PeopleSoft Manufacturing using the Production Order Issue EIP. This EIP is a batch subscribe (inbound), asynchronous message.

When you pass component usage from the MES, all component consumption for a production order is sent, regardless of whether the quantity consumed was the default quantity. If components consumed are under serial or lot control, the lot or serial numbers are passed from the MES to update PeopleSoft Inventory. For lot-controlled components, the lot IDs can be automatically added by the Prdn Compl/Scrap (SFPDCDRV) process if you have selected the backflush lot selection rule of Earliest Expiration Date or Earliest Available Date.

The system validates component consumption transactions coming into the PeopleSoft system to ensure that the production IDs and items are valid in the business unit. The items must be valid for the BOM or as substitutes. If the consumption transaction would drive inventory negative in a business unit where negative inventory is not permitted, the system doesn't process the transaction.