PeopleSoft Financials Remains Strong in ERP and Payables Functionality
April 13, 2021

PeopleSoft Financials Remains Strong in ERP and Payables Functionality

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Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with PeopleSoft Financials

PeopleSoft Financials is being used as our consolidated accounts payable sub-ledger to pay over 10,000 vendors and we use it also for travel expense
reports, auditing, administration, and payment through our two global disbursement banks based in the U.S. It is also linked to our procurement
system with the vendor master file. We used PeopleSoft Financials to build in strict controls around the vendor master file. The system addresses vendor payments
worldwide in multiple currencies.


  • Process vendors' payments globally in multiple currencies
  • Secure and protect the vendor master file and interface with procurement functionality
  • Provide standard and ad-hoc reporting and security administration
  • Process employee travel and expense reports
  • User interface and user feel could be better
  • Fewer steps and clicks screen to screen; screen efficiency is important
  • Standard reporting is fine but ad-hoc reporting is just OK
  • Allowed us to purge old vendors to optimize controls against potential fraud
  • Maintained our ERP system security to add additional security features
  • Interfaced positively with other financial systems, G/L, procurement, reporting, increasing our ROI
We compared PeopleSoft Financials against Oracle and Workday for accounts payable, comparing technical requirements and functional requirements. The other systems were fine, but we optimized our processes and controls to make our use of PeopleSoft Financials more effective. We hired a consultant to help in the comparison to make it more formal and we called a number of references to check out use against industry best practices.
Using PeopleSoft Financials for accounts payable is well suited to processing domestic and global vendors and employee payments for expense reports. It has deep functionality and integration across the entire U.S. organization, and the database has been easily kept up to date after we purged 20,000+ aged vendors. It has been scalable as we have changed size and gotten larger. We also are pleased with its interfaces with banks. It has good functionality out of the box, using the excellence of the system provider rather than dropping in customizations that have to later be deleted.

Oracle PeopleSoft ERP Feature Ratings

Accounts payable
Not Rated
Accounts receivable
9
Global Financial Support
Not Rated
Primary and Secondary Ledgers
8
Journals and Reconciliations
Not Rated
Configurable Accounting
Not Rated
Standardized Processes
Not Rated
Billing Management
8
Cash and Asset Management
Not Rated
Travel & Expense Management
Not Rated
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting
Not Rated
Period Close
Not Rated
Inventory tracking
Not Rated
Automatic reordering
Not Rated
Location management
Not Rated
Pricing
Not Rated
Order entry
Not Rated
Credit card processing
Not Rated
Cost of goods sold
Not Rated
Order Orchestration
Not Rated
Pay calculation
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
Not Rated
Dashboards
8
Standard reports
8
Custom reports
6
API for custom integration
3
Plug-ins
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
7
Single sign-on capability
7
Award Lifecycle Management
Not Rated
Budgeting and Forecasting
Not Rated
Project Costing
Not Rated
Cost Capture
Not Rated
Capital Project Management
Not Rated
Customer Contract Compliance
Not Rated
Project Revenue Recognition
Not Rated
Project Planning and Scheduling
Not Rated
Task Insight for Project Managers
Not Rated
Project Mobile Functionality
Not Rated
Definable Resource Pools
Not Rated
Not Rated
Bids Analyzed and Compared
Not Rated
Contract Authoring
Not Rated
Contract Repository
Not Rated
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated
Not Rated
Supplier Management
Not Rated
Risk Repository
Not Rated
Control Management
Not Rated
Control Efficiency Assessments
Not Rated
Issue Detection
Not Rated
Remediation and Certification
Not Rated
Not Rated
Transportation Planning and Optimization
Not Rated
Transportation Execution Management
Not Rated
Trade and Customs Management
Not Rated
Fulfillment Management
Not Rated
Warehouse Workforce Management
Not Rated
Not Rated
Production Process Design
Not Rated
Production Management
Not Rated
Configuration Management
Not Rated
Work Execution
Not Rated
Manufacturing Costs
Not Rated
Not Rated
Forecasting
Not Rated
Inventory Planning
Not Rated
Performance Monitoring
Not Rated
Proposal Management
Not Rated
Product Master Data Management
Not Rated