Understanding Workflow

Many of the tasks you perform throughout the day are part of larger tasks that involve multiple steps and several people in your organization working together. PeopleSoft workflow tools help you build the larger process into your PeopleSoft Human Resources system, automating vital business tasks. You can tie together the individual steps so that PeopleSoft can help coordinate the activities. Because the system has the big picture and knows what you are trying to accomplish, it can automatically start the next step in the workflow, following your organization's business rules.

Using workflow capabilities for administering personnel actions, the PAR status indicates the steps in routing and provides employees, supervisors, and human resources professionals easy access, surveillance, and security in the request management process. Workflow routes requests by sending personnel actions through a cycle to initiate, request, authorize, and approve requests, and provides options along the way for more time, further information, or returning to sender. Workflow then sends requests on to human resources for final processing. The automated workflow process ensures that the action request goes through all the reviews your agency needs until it becomes an actual event.