SAP Finance System
           West Chester University
Finance and Business Services
& Budget Office
201 Carter Drive, Suite 200
West Chester, PA 19383

 
WCU - SAP Implementation, What You Need To Know

What You Need to Know!

General Information

West Chester University has migrated from the locally implemented PeopleSoft Financial system to the State System of Higher Education SAP shared administrative system.  The cutover occurred on November 27,2006.

š The SAP R/3 product is not web based and requires the installation of the SAP graphical user interface (GUI) on all computers that need to access the system. 

Managing Your Budget

Budget Reporting - The type of budget reporting you will utilize is dependent upon the Fiscal Year you wish to view.

Fiscal Year 2009
• SAP ZFM01 and ZFM01_EXP Reports
• SAP BI reporting

Fiscal Year 2008
• SAP ZBUDSTAT_EX_CF Reports
• SQL Server Reporting Services generated Web-based financial / budget reports

Fiscal Year 2007
• PeopleSoft Web Reports (July – November only)
• SAP ZBUDSTAT_EX_CF Reports
• Web-based financial / budget reports

Fiscal Year 2006 and Earlier
• PeopleSoft Web Reports

ðChargebacks - The following services are charged back to your department on a monthly basis: Postage, Bulk Mail, Printing & Graphics, Pagers, Telephone charges, Facilities Project Workforce, Instructional Media, and Central Stores orders.  It is your responsibility to review this information in a timely fashion to ensure the charges are complete and accurate. Erroneous charges (incorrect department, disputed charges, etc…) should be identified immediately and corrections requested by contacting Finance and Business Services


Requisitioning Goods and Services

West Chester University utilizes an electronic requisitioning process within the SAP financial system. Electronic requisitioning provides increased efficiencies, cost savings, reduced processing times, and greater campus access to procurement data.

Purchase Orders that fail the budget checking process (Availability Control) can not be overridden in SAP.  Before a requisition or purchase order can proceed through the system, a viable source of funds must be determined.

Requests for Payment

These forms are utilized for conference registrations (where P-Card is not accepted), reimbursements to employees (excluding travel), subscriptions, stipends, license fees (non-software), memberships, and honorariums.