Getting Started with PeopleSoft Enterprise Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) Fundamentals

This chapter provides an overview of the common business processes described in the PeopleSoft Enterprise Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) Fundamentals 8.9 PeopleBook.

Because the information in thePeopleSoft Enterprise Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) Fundamentals 8.9 PeopleBook. involves more than one PeopleSoft product, you need to refer to the Getting Started chapter in each PeopleBook for specific implementation and integration information.

The products included in the PeopleSoft Enterprise Asset Lifecycle Management suite include:

• PeopleSoft Enterprise Asset Management

• PeopleSoft Enterprise IT Asset Management

• PeopleSoft Enterprise Maintenance Management

• PeopleSoft Enterprise Real Estate Management

See Also

PeopleSoft Enterprise Asset Management 8.9 PeopleBook

PeopleSoft Enterprise IT Asset Management 8.9 PeopleBook

PeopleSoft Enterprise Maintenance Management 8.9 PeopleBook

PeopleSoft Enterprise Real Estate Management 8.9 PeopleBook

PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management Application Fundamentals Overview

This PeopleBook discusses the following functionality and business processes:

• Using the Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution and the asset repository.

• Establishing asset management business units and cost generating units

• Establishing asset processing.

• Setting up accounting entry and financial processing.

• Setting up depreciation processing.

• Setting up tax processing and tax reporting.

• Integrating asset management with other products.

• Understanding the loader table data dictionary.

• Configuring ALM background processes.

Other Sources of Information

In the planning phase of your implementation, take advantage of all PeopleSoft sources of information, including the installation guides, table-loading sequences, data models, and business process maps. A complete list of these resources is in the preface of the About These PeopleBooks with information on where to find the most up-to-date version of each.

Implementation Considerations

PeopleSoft Enterprise Setup Manager enables you to review a list of setup tasks for your organization for the products that you are implementing. The setup tasks include the components that you must set up, listed in the order in which you must enter data into the component tables, and links to the corresponding PeopleBook documentation.

Asset Management also provides component interfaces to help you load data from the existing system into Asset Management tables. Use the Excel to Component Interface utility with the component interfaces to populate the tables.

See Importing Asset Data by Using the Excel to Component Interface Utility.