Getting Started with PeopleSoft Enterprise Engineering

This chapter discusses the integrations and implementation steps required to set up PeopleSoft Enterprise Engineering.

PeopleSoft Enterprise Engineering Integrations

PeopleSoft Enterprise Engineering integrates with these PeopleSoft Enterprise products:

PeopleSoft Enterprise Manufacturing
PeopleSoft Enterprise Cost Management
PeopleSoft Enterprise Inventory

PeopleSoft Enterprise Manufacturing

You can take advantage of the integration between PeopleSoft Enterprise Engineering and PeopleSoft Enterprise Manufacturing to:

Maintain both engineering bills of material and manufacturing BOMs.
Maintain both engineering and manufacturing routings.
Transfer BOMs and Routings between PeopleSoft Enterprise Engineering and PeopleSoft Enterprise Manufacturing.
Maintain document versions associated with component lists and operation lists used in the production process.
Make mass changes to manufacturing BOMs using ECOs.
View engineering change orders (ECOs).

PeopleSoft Enterprise Cost Management

PeopleSoft Enterprise Cost Management uses PeopleSoft Enterprise Engineering data to calculate the cost of an item based on an engineering BOM (EBOM) and an engineering routing. Using PeopleSoft Enterprise Cost Management, you define engineering versions and calculate the effects of engineering changes on existing items. In addition, you can also use an engineering version for cost estimates.

PeopleSoft Enterprise Inventory

PeopleSoft Enterprise Engineering accesses items in PeopleSoft Enterprise Inventory to enable you to specify EBOM components that are still pending (pre-approved) in PeopleSoft Enterprise Inventory. This enables you to complete item initialization and approval independent of EBOM maintenance.

If a co-product can be manufactured on multiple BOMs, you define within PeopleSoft Enterprise Inventory an associated primary BOM that determines which BOM is used to explode the item to lower levels.

PeopleSoft Enterprise Engineering Implementation

PeopleSoft Enterprise Setup Manager enables you to generate a list of setup tasks for your organization based on the features 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.

PeopleSoft Enterprise Engineering also provides component interfaces to help you load data from your existing system into PeopleSoft Enterprise Engineering tables. Use the Excel to Component Interface utility with the component interfaces to populate the tables.

This table lists all of the components that have component interfaces:

Component	Component Interface	Reference
Define Engineering Routings	EN_EROUTING_CI	See Structuring Engineering Routings

Other Sources of Information

In the planning phase of your implementation, take advantage of all PeopleSoft Enterprise sources of information, including the installation guides, table-loading sequences, data models, and business process maps. A complete list of these resources appears in the preface in thePeopleSoft Enterprise Application Fundamentals PeopleBook, with information about where to find the most current version of each.