A powerful way to increase efficiency is with actionable operational analytics. Across different organizations, operational analytics can help business users to analyze data historically and in the moment for daily business activities. Embedded within each business process, it helps business users make the best possible decisions in context.
PeopleSoft operational analytics provide iteration of data analysis by enabling different views of the same data. In real time, business users can filter and slice the data for analysis with access to the latest transactions within PeopleSoft through delivered dashboards, workcenters, or related content. Users can also configure chart views to immediately render the data in various formats such as bar, line or pie charts. Thetechnology used,Pivot Grids, provides interactive analytics with capabilities to drill down into the details and perform related actions. Using related actions, a usercan take action directly from a chart or data based on their security permissions.
Here are a couple of examples across HCM, ELM, Financials, and SCM that will help maximize productivity and support business decisions.
Human Capital Management (HCM)
Compensation provides Managers and Compensation Administrators key information to help them decide on salaries, bonuses, and cycle tracking. Managers are able to perform salaries comparisons, check if their employees' salaries are in range, and reward their employees based on performance analysis. Compensation Administrators can tightly control the cycle to monitor proposals status and easily identify whether the proposals fall within or outside the recommended guidelines.
Recruiting offers Recruiters and Hiring Managers metrics to manage job openings and applicants effectively. Key metrics for time to fill, vacancies, and the disposition of applicants are available to provide information such as number of job openings by month, which jobs have taken the longest to fill, and identify bottlenecks in the applicant’s process.
Global Payroll and Absence Management deliver a monitor for Administrators to easily review processing results and statistics. The monitor provides a flexible configuration for Administrators to define thresholds and alerts to quickly assess errors due to manual entries, errors resulting from the calculation process, and result variances. The monitor allows the Administrators to analyze key information; drill down to identify the root cause, and perform related actions to correct the problems.
Time and Labor analytics provide Managers and Administrators information about employees' Timesheet status, attendance, and absence patterns. They can quickly review any time pending approvals, employees with attendance violations, and employees’ absence occurrences.
Enterprise Learning Management (ELM)
Learning Compliance analytics provides an easy way to monitor learning progress and keep your organization in compliance. Administrators and Managers can quickly view learners’ status in any learning event and drill into the details to notify non-compliant learners. Monitoring learning progress and getting answers to “have my team members enrolled or completed their required training” or “is my organization in compliance” has never been easier.
Instructors and Administrators can have insight in to critical feedback to improve learning offerings using the Survey Results analytics. The analytics provide answers to questions such as “is the class meeting the needs of the learners” or “how can we improve our learning offerings.” Instructors can easily drill into the details to see what areas need improvement.
Financials
Billing delivers a dashboard that provides access to critical information for operational managers to review, drill down into the details, and take immediate action. Billing Managers can track and compare invoices, identify incomplete invoice processes, and review bills by status. This helps the Billing Managers identify variances, drill down into the invoice amounts for detail analysis, and proactively monitor incomplete invoice processes to help streamline the General Ledger and Accounts Receivables business flow.
Staffing provides Staffing Managers and Recruiters the ability to minimize the challenge of managing on-boarding resources and agenda tasks by using Staffing Overdue Branch Agenda and Near Term Branch Agenda analytics. The information rich analytics increase productivity to efficiently manage large numbers of candidates and unfilled resource requests. Users can easily identify any agenda items needing attention and quickly complete their work by priority or assignments.
Contracts facilitate easy access to a wide variety of contract elements that are essential when trying to handle the complexities inherent in managing revenue contracts. Administrators can keep a watchful eye with Contracts Status metrics to access information and quickly update contract lines.
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Knowing if your organization is performing according to a customer’s expectation is challenging and usually done in a reactive mode. In Release 9.2, we provide embedded related content displaying order fulfillment effectiveness and average time to pick, pack, and ship. With these metrics, organizations will be able to gauge whether or not they are maintaining agreed-upon service level agreements with their customers. We provide users a series of “out-of-the-box” alerts identifying potentially problematic conditions in their Supply Chain, such as orders past shipment date, on hold orders past their shipment date, overdue Purchase Orders, and more. In the case of order schedules past their shipment date, users may do a mass change to adjust shipment dates or switch the demand from one warehouse to another that has available stock.
These are only some operational analytics examples. We encourage you to read our PeopleSoft Human Capital Management 9.2 Documentation Home Page and PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.2 Documentation Home Page to learn more about it.