Image Highlights, PeopleSoft FSCM Update Image 26

The latest Image for Financials Supply Chain Management was recently released, and there are some great new features PeopleSoft customers should know about. Here are highlights of a few of them and some resources to help you learn more!

Classic Plus

FSCM Image 26 contains code changes that enable some FSCM pages to work with Classic Plus. The PeopleTools 8.56 Classic Plus feature is turned on when you select the “Make Me Current” option for the FSCM Image 26 installation. The FSCM product and the component determines the Classic Plus style sheet. Not all products and component combinations have been redesigned for Classic Plus. Therefore, you may have a combination of Classic and Classic Plus components. To watch a quick highlight of this feature, click here.

Fluid Homepages – Self Service for the Grants Administrator and Customer Contracts

Oracle PeopleSoft delivers the fluid Finance & Accounting homepage in Image 26. This feature allows you to organize work by roles and access associated fluid tiles, pages, and pivot grids.

Oracle PeopleSoft also delivers the Customer Contracts Fluid Homepage in Image 26. This homepage is a fluid enabled launching point into the contracts application. It provides contracts administrators, revenue analysts, and contract billing professionals access to review contract billing, revenue, and other contract level information. This homepage also provides customers access to My Contracts and frequently used pages from the Contracts Workcenter and Navigation Collections. To watch a quick highlight of this feature, click here.

Fluid Asset Tracking Usability Enhancements

Fluid Asset Tracking Usability enhancements include options to scan assets within a specific location and area ID, which builds an audit history for the asset in that location, view comments captured during asset scanning, and view pivot grids of asset scans in progress, duplicate tags, scan results, and scan history. To watch a quick highlight of this feature, click here.

Asset Management Fluid Approvals – Phase 2

Image 26 adds asset management, asset disposal, pending approvals, and asset self-service pending approvals to PeopleSoft Asset Management.  Approvers can access asset disposal or asset self-service to review information before taking any approval actions. To watch a quick highlight of this feature, click here.

Resource Management Fluid Approval and Page Composer

In Image 26, two transactions are implemented using fluid approvals – approving resource assignments and approving schedule changes in an assignment. The Pending Approvals Resource Assignment page displays the assignments that are currently routed for approval. This page was created in Page Composer, making it a configurable drag-and-drop page that can be designed to meet the visibility requirements of an approver. To watch a quick highlight of this feature, click here.

Fluid Program Management Approval and Page Composer

The Fluid Program Management Approval and Page Composer feature provides project and program managers with the ability to approve program budgets and project requests. This is a configurable drag-and-drop page that you can design to meet the visibility requirements of an approver using page composer. To watch a quick highlight of this feature, click here.

Fluid Approval for Supplier Chain Request

You can now approve supplier change requests using the PeopleSoft fluid user interface. The Pending Approvals Supplier Change Request page displays the supplier change requests that are currently routed for approval. To watch a quick highlight of this feature, click here.

Payables Lease Reclassification

In Image 26, the lease amendment feature has been extended for lease reclassifications which may result from a lease premeasurement. To watch a quick highlight of this feature, click here.

Additional Features

• ChartField override for mobile adjustments in Maintenance Management
• Spain VAT Registration Phase II
• Do not process bills in a closed accounting period
• Dunning related actions from Collections Workbench in Receivables