Project Manager - Peoplesoft

- Minneapolis, MN 55401
- 12-13 Months
- Project Manager

Project Manager needed to Manager a PeopleSoft Upgrade.
o Minimum of 7-10 years overall PM experience
o Experience managing Peoplesoft upgrade project
o Peoplesoft Financials (FSCM) project experience preferred

In January 2011, the County implemented Oracle's PeopleSoft FSCM v9.0 application. HCM 9.0 and the PeopleSoft Portal had previously been implemented in October 2009. The FSCM implementation included General Ledger/Commitment Control, Project Costing, eProcurement, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Employee Expenses, Billing, Accounts Receivable, Grants, Contract Management, and Treasury/Cash Management.

The goal during the implementation was to minimize any customizations required. As a result, the implementation can be classified as having a low number of customizations.

Below is an estimated count of FSCM customizations, including many user defined and public query reports:

- Object/Logic: 67
- Reports: Queries, SCR reports, nVision reports and Cognos reports: 394
- Interfaces/Views: 43
- During 2012, the County is upgrading its HCM, ELM, and Portal environments to PeopleTools version 8.52 and PeopleSoft version 9.1.
- 1.1. APEX FSCM UPGRADE PROJECT OBJECTIVES

The APEX FSCM upgrade will migrate the existing County PeopleSoft FSCM environments from v9.0 to v9.1 for each of the application systems. The project will also strive to minimize the number of customizations by reviewing all current modifications to determine which ones are still required, which ones are no longer needed, and which ones should be replaced with any new delivered functionality.

STRATEGIC SOURCING
In addition to upgrading the existing PeopleSoft applications, the County is considering optionally implementing the Strategic Sourcing module, which was not included in the original FSCM implementation in January 2011. The County is currently conducting its own analysis of the business requirements for the Strategic Sourcing module implementation, and the results of said analysis may be made available prior to the closing date of the proposal submission under this RFP.

The upgrade project objectives are to:

- Validate the County's proposed infrastructure (Servers/capacity) for all FSCM 9.1 environments: DEMO, DEVELOPMENT, CONVERSION, TEST, and PRODUCTION
- Establish the new v9.1 environments, for FSCM as listed in the above bullet point
- Establish and utilize the new PeopleTools v8.5x environment
- Identify and establish performance improvement setup and hardware configuration options
- Perform a fit/gap analysis between the current and new environments to determine:

o What new look and feel is desired and will be what the users experience
- o Which new functionality could be adopted

o What new customizations will be required
o Which existing customizations should be migrated or removed or replaced - Do a review of the features/functionality included in the PeopleSoft 9.2 release to determine if any feature packs have a high priority for implementation
- Perform a fit/gap analysis of the County's business requirements for Strategic Sourcing; and if requested by the County, implement the Strategic Sourcing module consistent with the results of the fit/gap analysis,
- Migrate, test, rework, and verify all required existing modifications and customizations in the new v9.1 environments
- Migrate, test, rework, and verify all current business, module, and processing rules in the new v9.1 environments
- Test and verify all currently used standard reports in the new v9.1 environments
- Migrate, test, rework, and verify all required current custom reports in the new v9.1 environments
- Migrate, test, rework, and verify all current interfaces in the new v9.1 environments
- Migrate, test, rework, and verify all current workflows in the new v9.1 environments
- Develop any new customizations, reports, interfaces, or workflows that may be required for the Strategic Sourcing implementation.
- Re-establish, test, and verify application messaging and synchronizations in the new v9.1 environments:

o Oracle/Peoplesoft Financials (v9.1) o HCM v 9.1 - Test, rework, and verify all current Microsoft Office interactions in the new v9.1 environments (ie - storing MS Word documents, creating MS Excel data spreadsheets, using MS Excel with Component Interface, Excel spreadsheet upload for General Ledger journal entries, etc.)
- Test, rework, and verify all current and new email interactions (eg automated notifications, emailed purchase orders, etc.) within the new v9.1 environments
- Develop, test, and verify any new customizations or configurations needed for Business rules, Batch processes, Reports, Workflow, Interfaces, Pages, Emails, and Messaging
- Update the UPK and training materials to reflect the new v9.1 changes and user experience. Develop new training materials for the Strategic Sourcing module if applicable.