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Financials & SCM v9.0Release Highlights

PRESENTED BY:

Jane GuiceDirector,Financial Management Practice

JANUARY 17, 2007

2 >> © 2007 Optimum Solutions Group, LLC

Agenda

OBJECTIVES

Review major relevantfunctional and technicalchanges and enhancements

Discuss significantimpact areas

Review questions

» Introductions

» Optimum Solutions Overview

» Financials v9.0 and SCM Functional Highlights

» Q&A Session


IntroductionOptimum’s Unique Qualifications


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Charles Schwab

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9.0 Financials & SCMFunctional Highlights


Financials and Supply Chain Mgmt Suite

Enterprise Portal

Program Management

Resource Management

Expenses

Project Costing

Proposal Management

ESA Portal

Order Management

Promotions Management

Contracts

Product Configurator

Inventory

Transaction Billing Processor

Billing

eBill Payment

Receivables

Manufacturing

Supply Planning

Asset Management

IT Asset Management

Maintenance Management

Real Estate Management

Cash Management

Deal Management

Risk Management

General Ledger

Supplier Contract Management

eProcurement

Purchasing

Services Procurement

Strategic Sourcing

SRM eSupplier Connection

Payables

eSettlement

Grants

Contracts for U.S. Government

Staffing Front Office

Pay/Bill Management

Plan to Retire

Asset Lifecycle Mgmt Portal

Financial Control

Professional ServicesSolution

Source to Settle

Order to Cash

Industry Enhancements

Plan to Produce

Treasury Management

Financial Analytics - EPM Warehouse

CFO Portal

Internal Controls Enforcer


Financials and Supply Chain Mgmt Suite

Enterprise Portal

Program Management

Resource Management

Expenses

Project Costing

Proposal Management

ESA Portal

Order Management

Promotions Management

Contracts

Product Configurator

Inventory

Transaction Billing Processor

Billing

eBill Payment

Receivables

Manufacturing

Supply Planning

Asset Management

IT Asset Management

Maintenance Management

Real Estate Management

Cash Management

Deal Management

Risk Management

General Ledger

Supplier Contract Management

eProcurement

Purchasing

Services Procurement

Strategic Sourcing

SRM eSupplier Connection

Payables

eSettlement

Grants

Contracts for U.S. Government

Staffing Front Office

Pay/Bill Management

Plan to Retire

Asset Lifecycle Mgmt Portal

Financial Control

Professional ServicesSolution

Source to Settle

Order to Cash

Industry Enhancements

Plan to Produce

Treasury Management

Financial Analytics - EPM Warehouse

CFO Portal

Internal Controls Enforcer

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General Ledger v9.0 Enhancements

Significant functional enhancements including:

» Journal Spreadsheet Import – ability to use‘NEXT’ Journal ID functionality andspeedtypes. Default Business Unit fromheader to journal lines. Entry of CommitmentControl adjustment activity. Real time editsand improved error messages.

» VAT Transaction Report – delivers detail andsummary VAT transaction information withdrill-down capabilities to source transactions.This report uses XML Publisher technology.

» XML Publisher – This reporting tool utilizesFusion Middleware technology and is designto enhance previous Crystal capabilities.Crystal required manual updates whenchartfield configuration was used, XMLPublisher updates chartfield informationautomatically.

EXPECTED BENEFITS

Better spreadsheet importand combination editing

Enhanced Audits for VAT

XML Publisher for Chartfieldreporting

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Cash Management 9.0 Enhancements


» Bank Reconciliation – Introduction of many-to-many and many-to-one semi-manualreconciliation process.

» Bank Reconciliation Rules – can now begenerated automatically.

» CUSIP – new functionality allows automatedtracking of securities at the CUSIP level.

» Sustainable Compliance – OFAC list can nowbe uploaded to maintain compliance with thePatriot Act.

» FUSION – XML Publisher has beenintegrated with nVision for more powerfulreporting.

EXPECTED BENEFITS

Improved BankReconciliation

Support for CUSIP

Sustainable Compliance

Path to Fusion

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Asset Management 9.0 Enhancements


» International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) hasissued IAS 16 requiring fair value accounting. New 9.0functionality automates processing to meet this standard’srequirements.

» Depreciation Enhancements are achieved through theuse of the new Adjustment Convention at the Asset Profilelevel. Depreciation load process also has improvedperformance.

» General Assets – Improvements to non-financial assettracking capabilities along with additional granularity inconfiguration options.

EXPECTED BENEFITS

Sustainable ComplianceRequirements

Enhancements toDepreciation and GeneralAsset processing

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IT Asset Management 9.0 Enhancements


» New software license functionality allows for varying typesof license agreements to be tracked automatically.Tracking user authorizations to software use has alsobeen improved.

» Financial Impact Analysis and other reportingenhancements ensure better management decisions aswell as SOX compliance.

EXPECTED BENEFITS

Optimize SoftwareCompliance

Reporting and Visibility

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Maintenance Management 9.0 Enhancements


» Implementation of several new ‘Workbenches’ and thestreamlining of the work-order completion interface allowdaily tasks to be completed more efficiently.

» Additional role based security options and more userpreference and business unit configurability provide agreater level of control.

» New Functionality to address Best-In-Class Processingincludes:

• Crew Scheduling/Crew Scheduling with MS Projects

• User-defined maintenance types for association withPreventative Maintenance Schedules

• Configurable Condition-Based Maintenance Alerts

• Enhanced integration with Inventory ensuring work-order availability.

• Creation of Equipment Parts Lists

• Ability to track Asset Downtime

• Work and Resource Planning integration.

EXPECTED BENEFITS

Superior OwnershipExperience

Best-in-Class BusinessProcesses

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Purchasing v9.0 Enhancements


» Amount Only Requisitions

» Ability to reopen closed purchase orders andrequisitions

» Improved Analytics

» Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Dashboardenhanced with more pagelets and enhanced statistics

» Procurement Card Number Encryption

EXPECTED BENEFITS

More flexibility in defininghow items are categorized

Added security forProcurement card numbers

Blanket purchase orders area reality

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eProcurement v9.0 Enhancements


» Amount only requisitions

» Approval workflow changes

• Administrator can act on behalf of a requester

• Resubmit transaction history is maintained

• Reminder notifications for approvals

• Route to administrator when no approver is found

» Easier to copy or cancel a requisition

» Increased functionality for creating templates

» Can group favorite items for easy searching

» Item status is displayed on a template

» New item request to send to buyer

» Can use BPEL Process manager to dispatch P.O.s

» Enhanced Verity search capabilities

EXPECTED BENEFITS

Streamlined transactionprocessing

Encourages self service byemployees

Enhanced usability

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Accounts Payable v9.0 Enhancements


» New Financial Sanction functionality – providesmultiple check points throughout transaction cycle tovalidate that restricted parties do not get paid.

» Electronic invoicing – VOUCHER_BUILD applicationmessage can now process a digital signature.

» Mass Payment Cancellation – provides cancel orescheat capabilities for a group of payments.

» New Voucher Processing includes:

• New Sales/Use Tax Summary page

• More efficient chartfield copy functions

• Session defaults apply to quick and regular invoices

• Document Status is quicker to access and providesgreater visibility to related vouchers and cancelledpayments.

• Withholding – two entry screens and separateprocessing has been consolidated to one run control.

EXPECTED BENEFITS

Sustainable Compliance

Electronic Invoicing andother Voucher ProcessingEnhancements

Streamlined Withholding

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Expenses v9.0 Enhancements


» Define Travel Partners – new functionality allowsintegration with 3rd party websites to streamline travelbooking and enforcement of travel policies.

» Travel partner bookings can now be associated withTravel Authorizations.

» Integration Broker, XML and BPEL are used to importand export an employee’s travel profile from TravelPartners.

»Workflow Enhancements

• Save and Hold submits transactions for approval, butholds any further processing

• Adding Transaction Lines allows an approver to addexpense transaction lines, perhaps to further break-outaccounting entries, that are routed to the next approver.

EXPECTED BENEFITS

Integration with onlineTravel Partners

Maintain Travel Profiles

Workflow Improvements

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Projects v9.0 Enhancements


» Third Party loader web services allow for more flexibleintegration of project, activity and transaction data.This functionality is enabled by new FUSION tools.

» Additional Enhancements include:

• Asset Capitalization Currency Summary Options

• Added integration with Enterprise MaintenanceManagement

• New features used with Enterprise ProgramManagement

• Security Options for Time and Expense

EXPECTED BENEFITS

Web Services to Integrate

Continued FunctionalImprovements

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Contracts v9.0 Enhancements


» Enhanced prepaids – allow for use of funds prior toinitial bill plan. Also, balance of contract funds will bevisible. Streamlined setup

» Allows discounts on current and future renewals andvariations on applying them

» More accurately record and recognize revenue byusing the milestone completion date as the accountingdate on the revenue plan

» Save keystrokes and increase efficiency by using thestart date on the contract as a basis for an event

» Better use of the PeopleSoft Enterprise Pricer todefault in quantities

» The Contracts interface will pass the start and enddates of the contract line to the Billing Interface tableand can be added to the invoice if desired

»When using a revenue/billing plan template themilestone status will be set to ready

EXPECTED BENEFITS

Increase control andefficient use of funds

Reduced manualintervention

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Billing v9.0 Enhancements


» Billing worksheets - a new search page enables youto narrow your search by selecting multiple fields withrange capabilities.

» Sustainable compliance requirements - addedadditional VAT functionality and support to meet theOffice of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) complianceas well as ensure that your company is up to date withthe latest compliance and controls.

» Invoice generation - PeopleSoft Billing provides XMLPublisher as a third print option for invoices.

EXPECTED BENEFITS

Increase user productivity

Ease of use

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Receivables v9.0 Enhancements


» Entering and applying payments –

• Uploading Payments from Excel

• Generating Cash Control Journal Entries

• Improved Payment Unpost

• Processing Credit Card Payments

» Collecting receivables –

• Added currency codes to customer conversation notes

• Enhanced customer conversations to use multiselect

» Sustainable compliance requirements

• Complete processing support for an additional VATdeclaration point of accounting date.

• New business unit prompts allow existing business unitsecurity to be leveraged, eliminating unwanted auditcomments

• Added base currency views for all activity

EXPECTED BENEFITSIncrease user productivityand increased usability

Leverage the latestimprovements in

processes and technology

Ensure compliance withaccounting guidelines

Minimize bad debt

Increase cash flow

Reduce operating costs

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Inventory v9.0 Enhancements


» Inventory reservation process – created new rule-based process for added efficiency and new tools fordetecting processing problems.

» Kit Processing – Kits can be added and updated onMSR’s. When a kit is updated, all orders that are inprocess can be redefined with the Re-Explodeprocess.

» Pick plans include product Kits and all kit components.

» Shipping documents can be printed prior to reachingthe Shipped or Depleted stage.

»Work Order reservations allow for items to bereserved prior to creation of the picking plan.

EXPECTED BENEFITS

Greater inventory visibility

More flexibility inresponding to customers

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Order Management v9.0 Enhancements


» Holds Management Workbench

• Easier to apply, delete, and modify individual holdsagainst multiple orders.

• Hold codes are assigned to roles to limit the Hold Codesa role can add, release or delete

» Enhanced EDI support

• The ordering preference for the customer is establishedat the customer level on the Sold To Options page

» Enhanced ship date calculations

• Carrier exceptions can be set up for blocks of time orindividual days.

EXPECTED BENEFITS

Increased usability

Enhanced EDI capabilities


Questions & Answers


Thank you

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Contact Information

Jane GuiceDirector, Financial Management Practice415.954.7100, [email protected]

Sally HoodDirector, Business Development415.954.7100, [email protected]

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