Getting Started with Manage Positions

This chapter provides an overview and discusses:

Manage Positions integrations.
Manage Positions implementation.

Manage Positions Overview

The Manage Positions business process helps you define Human Resources by position, rather than job or by employee.

With this application, you can:

Create and track positions data and history.
Process employee appointments by position.

Maintain incumbent data.
Budget for positions and departments.
View incumbent, position, and budget histories.

Manage Positions Integrations

Human Resources integrates with all the PeopleSoft HRMS applications, with other PeopleSoft applications, and with third-party applications.

Human Resources shared tables are available to many PeopleSoft HRMS applications. In addition, data in many HR tables is available to any PeopleSoft application that is set up to subscribe to the published messages.

We cover integration considerations in this PeopleBook.

Manage Positions 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.

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

This table lists the component that has a setup component interface:

Component	Component Interface	References
CI_POSITION_DATA	POSITION_DATA	See Creating Positions.

Other Sources of Information

In the planning phase of your implementation, take advantage of all PeopleSoft sources of information, including the installation guides, data models, business process maps, and troubleshooting guidelines. 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.