People like you and me. Most people, unfamiliar with business applications, can use a web browser anytime, anywhere without formal training. Employees sign up for benefits during open enrollment, get work assignments from a portal, and check their payroll deductions without phoning their HR administrators. Managers access balanced scorecard information to validate a business decision from home before an early morning meeting. Suppliers automatically note your inventory level is low on critical parts and workflow routes a purchase order for approval to the responsible manager.
Suppliers can check on the payment status of their invoices.
Customers verify an order s shipping information and access product troubleshooting hints anytime without calling customer service. With PeopleSoft 8, all these people are connected to your enterprise, collaborating with your business without making telephone calls or sending reams of faxes. The accounting department enters lines into the general ledger, financial personnel generate reports for automatic distribution to email addresses or web pages, sales reps configure custom products for manufacturing with the right requirements and attributes, and analysts drill down to analyze the efficiency of a specific cost center. All these people support complex business processes. Now, all their tasks, not just selected self-service applications, are more accessible through a simple and consistent web interface.