Project Overview

What is SDSU’s Project HCM?

Overview

HCM stands for Oracle’s (PeopleSoft) Human Capital Management suite of software applications. San Diego State University is undertaking this software implementation in order to replace its existing processes for recruitment, employee and faculty management (the entire life cycle of an employee’s career at San Diego State University), position management, labor cost distribution, time keeping, and benefits using state of the art enterprise-level software developed by PeopleSoft (now Oracle), and further modified by the CSU Common Management Systems (CMS) team; the CSU modified version of the software is commonly known as “CMS Baseline.”

San Diego State University has engaged the support of Oracle Corporation as our implementation partner in a major effort to implement and streamline our existing critical administrative processes through the integration of these new PeopleSoft applications in Recruitment, Benefits, Position Management, Workforce Development & Administration, Time & Labor, Absence Management, Labor Cost Distribution, and Employee Self Service modules.

Objectives

• To assist SDSU in transferring the systems supporting its HR-related administrative processes to the CSU’s Common Management Systems baseline delivery of modified PeopleSoft software so that all campuses in the system are transacting, operating, and reporting using a consistent approach and methodology within the delivered software.
  
  
• To provide an integrated, authoritative, enterprise-level software system supported by a cohesive set of policies and procedures across all areas of the campus. An integrated set of efficient administrative processes supported by our new software applications will emerge.
  
  
• To readily align SDSU with the other CSU campuses for the California State Controller’s new Payroll/HRIS system, known as the 21st Century Project, whereby the campuses will transact and transmit campus payroll information to the California State Controller’s Office in a consistent and timely manner with a host of benefits to the new system such as online self-service capabilities.
  
  
• To have all application modules within scope in production no later than spring 2007. In order to achieve this goal SDSU has committed and will continue to commit sufficient resources to support the transfer of its human resource administrative processes into an Oracle PeopleSoft environment, as well as the maintenance of the processes and systems once in production.

Benefits to SDSU

• A new system that provides timely, accurate, authoritative information about and for employees of SDSU.
  
  
• New capabilities, such as employee self service and the ability for employees to view their own benefits and payroll information online.
  
  
• Desktop ability to query and retrieve needed information and to export into Excel or other user friendly reporting/data manipulation tools.
  
  
• More flexible reporting and analysis capability.

Oracle’s Role

Working in partnership with SDSU personnel and, therefore by extension, with the Chancellor’s Office CMS staff, Oracle is providing this project with the software applications, tools, education, training, and consulting services necessary to partner in the implementation lifecycle and mentor SDSU personnel in maintaining and supporting the system and our users of the system once the implementation cycle is completed.

SDSU’s Role

SDSU’s role in the project is to work in partnership with the Oracle consultants to successfully learn and implement the various modules of the HCM suite and to gain the knowledge necessary to maintain and support these systems and our users. Teams devoted to specific functional processes (typically by module) will include knowledgeable end-users and subject matter experts from all campus areas. Training and reporting out of the system are big components to the successful delivery of any new system, and both are being addressed as part of the implementation requirements. This project is undertaken with full campus divisional support and participation of the functional areas that will use and maintain processes supported by these applications.

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