GET THE FACS Faculty Automated Contract System AGENDA Introduction Project Overview System Highlights Benefits Summary Questions AGENDA Becky Mundschenk Senior Application Developer/Analyst Willem Bosma ImageNow Systems Cindy Lyons Assistant Budget Director PRESENTED BY TOWSON UNIVERSITY PROFILE Public University near Baltimore, MD Approximately 22,000 students 848 full-time faculty and 795 part-time faculty 1,357 full-time staff and 471 part-time staff 7 colleges, 64 undergraduate majors, and 50 graduate programs TOWSON UNIVERSITY PROFILE ADJUNCT CONTRACT PROCESS Approximately 6,000 contracts prepared and processed each year Three levels of approval Appointee > Chair > Dean Three processing offices Provost Budget > Human Resources > Payroll ADJUNCT CONTRACT PROCESS PROCESSING BEFORE FACS High volume of paper documents Contract delivery by US and interoffice mail Weeks from initiation to payroll complete Labor intensive High risk for errors and misplaced contracts Duplicate effort and data in colleges and administrative offices PROCESSING BEFORE FACS Delay in processing contract cancellations Contracts not secured until manually scanned into ImageNow No reliable method for tracking contracts and reconciling payments PROCESSING BEFORE FACS FACS PROJECT Timeline From design to implementation completed in 8 months Collaborative effort among academic, administrative and technical departments System design and development involved a team of technical staff Testing and training included users from Academic Departments, Chairs, Deans, Provost Budget, Human Resources and Payroll Acceptance enthusiastically adopted by the majority of users FACS PROJECT FACS PROCESSING Appointee selection Appointee provisioning Contract creation in PeopleSoft Appointee acceptance PDF sent to ImageNow Dept Chair approval College Dean approval PBO approval HR processing Payroll processing Start End FACS PROCESSING FACS TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS PeopleSoft Bolt-On System Custom Components for Contract Creation, Processing, Tracking, Security and Printing XML Publisher Templates for generating Contracts in PDF form ImageNow for Workflow Approvals and Document Storage PeopleSoft Queries for Data Review FACS TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS CONTRACT CREATION CONTRACT ACCEPTANCE CONTRACT TEMPLATES Template Types Adjunct Faculty Offload Per Student Summer Minimester Special Summer Minimester CONTRACT TEMPLATES CONTRACT PDF FORM IMAGENOW WORKFLOW ImageNow Mail captures and indexes contracts from PeopleSoft Routing rules move Workflow documents to the appropriate Approversnotifications are sent to Approvers when contracts are available for approval IMAGENOW WORKFLOW Grants Office, Department Chairs, Deans, and Provost Budget Office approve or reject documents ImageNow iScripts are used to update PeopleSoft with the current contract status and capture the history of status changes by approvers APPROVAL WORKFLOW CONTRACT VIEW CONTRACT APPROVAL MULTIPLE CONTRACT APPROVAL PeopleSoft Query Route Multiple Contracts Simultaneously CONTRACT PROCESSING Departments create and void contracts Provost Budget Office reviews contract data for funding source and processes cancellations Human Resources uses contract to enter or update job information Payroll uses contract for payment processing CONTRACT PROCESSING CONTRACT TRACKING FACS SECURITY Uses Custom Roles, Permission Lists, Query Tree, Delivered and Custom Department Security Custom Department Security maintained by Provost Budget Office Coordination of security changes between PeopleSoft and ImageNow FACS SECURITY OTHER FACS FEATURES Early Provisioning for appointee authentication AutomatedNotification for Appointee contract acceptance Automated uploading to ImageNow for workflow and document storage Opt Out option for Appointee contract acceptance via paper form Printable PDF contract for Appointee and Departments Data capture of Appointee citizenship, education and other employment Custom queries for reviewing contract data by department, college, contract status and other criteria OTHER FACS FEATURES FACS BENEFITS No paper Secure system Only takes seconds to create a contract Electronic approvals Document is immediately stored in ImageNow Processing from contract initiation to completion is possible in 3 days Contract status is visible and trackable Instant cancellations FACS BENEFITS Data stored in central location Queries can be used to review multiple contracts at a glance Data available for analysis of workload, enrollments, dual employment, teaching credentials, US citizenship and contract duplication Departments can reconcile contracts created to verify all have been entered QUESTIONS