PeopleSoft SCM Health Check Assessment Areas

During the health check, we assessed the improvement and bottleneck areas of a major healthcare provider in the North East. The areas identified below improved system response time, archiving data, better security, insightful analysis of data, improving service levels to end users for a significantly low  investment.

Functional Improvement Area Benefit
Creating Dash Boards

  • Fulfillment Lead Time
  • Purchasing Lead Time
  • Supplier 360
  • Supplier Performance

 
  • Supply Projections
  • Demand projections
  • Controlled fulfillment
Chartfield Security – only valid selections appear in search/ lookup

  • ePro
  • Inventory
  • Payables
  • PO
  • GL, AM, PC (Applicable)
  • Role based security framework
  • Ensure Compliance
Clean up Matching exceptions

  • Review Exception Criteria
  • Analyze Disposition Resolution for the current (about 10,000) rows in PROD
  • Reduction in ongoing Exceptions
  • Processing time improvement
  • Reduction in penalties due to timely payments
  • Better Service Levels
Data cleanup / Performance improvement

  • Cost Accounting Line Errors
  • Matching
  • Analyze/ Dispose Accounting Line Errors
  • Reduction in processing time
  • Reduce system deadlocks
  • Volume processing
  • Eliminate possible delays
ePro AWE Approval simplify/ re-structure

  • Current Complex 24-step approval process rules can be simplified to less than 10 steps
  • Simplification of Approval Rules
  • Ease of Maintenance
  • Improved performance of Approval process
  • Better Tracking
Archiving and Purging  

  • Inventory (over 10 million records in key tables)
  • PO (has records since 2003)
  • Payables
  • GL
  • Improved system performance
  • Reduced production database size
  • Helpful in DR
  • Reduced hardware for Data storage
  • Improved efficiency in reporting
Item Lead Time setup

  • Lead Time History Reports were never run in system
  • Purchase Lead Time is not setup under Item Master
  • Better prediction of receiving
  • Analyze performance vendor
  • Reward Performing vendors based on data
Mobile / Fluid Interface setup

  • Use 9.2 Mobile Interface for various Inventory Transactions
  • Roll out Fluid Interface to key Supply Chain users
  • Improved Productivity
  • Better Accessibility