Getting Started with Absence Management

This chapter discusses:

Absence Management overview.
Absence Management business processes.
Absence Management integrations.
Absence Management and PeopleSoft Enterprise Global Payroll.
Absence Management implementation.

Absence Management Overview

Absence Management handles absence processing and enables you to fine-tune the design of your system. Using a browser environment, PeopleTools, and a rules-based system, you can configure your absence system online without writing or changing the source code, thus reducing installation and maintenance time and costs.

Absence Management contains no application-specific rules or code. Using items, called elements, you build rules that determine what absence components are calculated, on a payee-by-payee basis, during background processing.

Absence Management Business Processes

Absence Management provides these business processes:

Absence entitlement processing.
Absence take processing.
Transfer of converted absence data to payroll.

We discuss these business processes in the business process chapters in this PeopleBook.

Absence Management Integrations

Absence Management integrates with these applications:

PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources.
PeopleSoft Enterprise Payroll for North America (directly or through PeopleSoft Enterprise Time and Labor).
PeopleSoft Enterprise Payroll Interface.

We discuss integration considerations in the implementation chapters in this PeopleBook.

Absence Management and PeopleSoft Enterprise Global Payroll

Absence Management and Global Payroll share many of the same components. In addition, some of the fields and pages in the shared components apply only to Global Payroll. These situations are noted throughout this PeopleBook.

Important! This PeopleBook is written for the Absence Management application. If you are using Global Payroll, refer to the PeopleSoft Enterprise Global Payroll PeopleBook.

Absence Management Implementation

PeopleSoft 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.

Absence Management also provides component interfaces to help you load data from the existing system into Absence Management 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	References
GP_CALENDAR	CI_GP_CALENDAR	See Using Calendars.
GP_CALENDAR_PERIOD	CI_GP_CALENDAR_PERIOD	See Using Calendars.
GP_CALENDAR_RUN	CI_GP_CALENDAR_RUN	See Using Calendars.

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 appears in the preface in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS 8.9 Application Fundamentals PeopleBook, with information about where to find the most current version of each.