Understanding the Required Setup and Considerations for Integration

This section discusses:

• PeopleSoft Manufacturing.

• The integration checklist.

PeopleSoft Manufacturing

Once you have defined usage of a valid life cycle status within the product life cycle management application, you can then set up PeopleSoft Manufacturing by defining default and mapping information within the Installations Options - Manufacturing page. These mappings look for custom fields in the XML as a system such as Agile™ would write them within the PDX 1.0 standard.

In addition, certain PeopleSoft Integration Broker and messaging information is also required, which enables PeopleSoft to receive the service operation in the PDX 1.0 format.

Within PeopleSoft, you also set up a Daemon program and related job designed to process inbound change orders (within the PDX 1.0 service operations) for items and BOMs sent in PDX format into PeopleSoft master tables.

Integration Checklist

Use this checklist to configure the PDX integration:

PeopleSoft Manufacturing Setup Tasks	Description
1. Set up PeopleSoft Installation Options.	Create basic life cycle mappings, defaults, and other basic mappings for data not delivered in standard PDX 1.0 XML.
2. Set up the PeopleSoft messaging gateway.	Activate service operations — for services BOM_SYNC and ITEM_SYNC The service operation version itself has a status and there is an individual status for each handler and routing.
3. Turn off Flag 1 within Data Maint Setup pages for ITEM and BOM transaction types.	Flag 1 in this setup page indicates that you do not want to auto-process inbound service operations as they are received. This is important for the integration to control the flow and updating of change orders.
4. Set up the PDX Alert and PDX_DMON Daemon group for processing inbound service operations.	a. Set up the run control for the PDX Alert. The PDX Alert enables you to notify a specific user by using email when exceptions occur within PeopleSoft due to the processing of inbound changes. b. Set up the Daemon to process inbound changes. The PDX_DMON Daemon group must be set up and running for a process scheduler to monitor inbound — PDX service operations and start the PDX_JOB when needed.