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BUSINESS NOTES & NEWS
OCTOBER 2007

In This Month's Issue:

 SPOTLIGHT
Mandatory Training
HUB Vendor of the Month
Who's Who
October Calendar

 FINANCE
HUB Statistics
Cost Center Verification Toolkit

 HUMAN RESOURCES
Hiring a New Employee?

 PAYROLL/HRMS
ePAF Demonstrations

 

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Contents Edited by the Administration & Finance Customer Service Center

ePAF Demonstrations

The HRMS office completed the final ePAF demonstration in September and October. The ePAF demonstrations have also been presented to the UHD, UHCL and UHV campuses to a limited audience. The HRMS office will be contacting College Business Administrators for HR workflow routing for the PAR, this information will be collected to build the routing structure for the ePAF form.

Note- ePAF stands for electronic Personnel Action Form. The University of Houston will use the name of ePAR (electronic Personnel Action Request), ePRF (electronic Position Request Form) and eRAF (electronic Re-Allocation Form.

HR Workflow Approvals Queries Developed
Think about what approvals are needed for the various employee classes; professional admin, faculty, students. Is it different for each employee class? The faster we can gather this information the sooner we can get started. Users can run queries using the PAR approval information that is currently stored in PeopleSoft. The Query names are:
HR_PAR_EMP_DATA
HR_PAR_JOB_DATA
If users are currently inputting the routing structure for the form on the PARs, the query will capture this information.
Project Information Training
The vendor is Gideon Taylor; they have developed this product for numerous universities. A consultant will assist in developing the ePAF form and routing structure. The project may take 3-6 months to implement. The PAR will be transformed to the new program followed by the PRF. We will get started on the project after the workflow routing is defined. Once all information is gathered we should be able to give a more definite time frame. The vendor will be onsite in November. Once the new program is developed, training will be administered to the end users, via classroom, and more than likely online or WebCT. Manual instructions will be created and stored on the HRMS website for your review.