Common Elements Used in National Finance Center Processing

Field or Control	Description
National Finance Center (NFC)	Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that provides payroll services to more than 600,000 federal employees.
Personnel Action Processing System (PACT)	NFC's online system for entering personnel actions into the payroll and personnel databases.
Personnel Management System (PMSO)	NFC's online system used for creating, editing, inactivating, reactivating or deleting individual (position) and primary (jobcode) data. Position data must be entered into PMSO before personnel data can be entered into PACT.
Personnel Edit Subsytem (PINE)	NFC's system that combines PACT and PMSO data and processes edits against the submitted personnel and position transactions. PACT and PMSO transactions must pass PINE edits before they are processed through NFC's Personnel Processing System (PEPL) to update the Payroll/Personnel System database (PPS). PINE processes Monday through Friday of each week, and the first Saturday of the pay period.
Suspense Inquiry and Correction System (SINQ).	Position (PMSO) and personnel (PACT) transactions that do not pass PINE edits are placed in this system.