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Sunflower ProjectChange Agent Network Meeting #12
May 13, 2010
22
Laura HowardSteering Committee Member,
Deputy Secretary – SRS
Message Steering Committee Member
33
Welcome
44
Meeting Agenda
WelcomeProject Status & Current EventsSMART Cutover StrategyFinance Team UpdatesAgency Task List UpdateReporting UpdateSMART SupportSMART/SHARP IntegrationTraining UpdateWrap Up
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Welcome and Introductions
Presenters• Kent Olson, Project Director
• Peggy Hanna, Deputy Project Director and Cutover Lead
• Randy Kennedy, Audit Services Team Lead, Accounts and Reports
• Muriah Baker, Accounts Receivable Team
• Kathy Lewis, Project Costing Lead
• Jennifer Dennon, Agency Readiness Lead
• Connie Guerrero, Enterprise Readiness Team Manager
• Nancy Ruoff, Payroll Services Manager, Accounts and Reports
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Housekeeping
• Bathrooms
• Please set cell phones and pagers to silent
• 10 minute break is planned
• Note cards for questions
77
Project Status & Current Events
88
Project Timeline
Deploy
Design
Build/Development
Test
Training
Analyze
Oct/Nov/Dec Jan/Feb/Mar Apr/May/Jun Jul/Aug/Sep Oct/Nov/Dec Jan/Feb/Mar Apr/May/Jun Jul/Aug/Sep
2008 2009
On-going System Support & Stabilization
2010
We are Here!
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Sunflower Project Current Events
• We are only 7 weeks and 33 work days from SMART go-live!
• Operational Readiness Testing is in progress
• End user testing and system testing is complete!
• Role Mapping updates are due TOMORROW!
• Statewide 33% of ILT sessions have beencompleted so far!
• Travel policy changes were issued via an informational circular this week. The actual policy and travel handbook will be issued soon. The document will be available on both the SMART and A&R website
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Expectations Setting
• So far this project has gone very well relative to other similarly large and complex projects
• But, we have not been without bumps in road:
1. Several agencies would like different workflow configurations that more closely match what they are doing now
• The software can accommodate many workflow routings but for “go-live” we could only provide several standard routings; there will be opportunities in the future to evaluate adding additional workflows
2. Training requirements for some agencies’ supervisory roles may be excessive
• Supervisors who simply approve travel requests or vouchers (but cannot make changes) may not need to know GL; the curriculum will be reviewed and some of the requirements (for certain roles) scaled back
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Expectations Setting (continued)
3. Agencies would have liked to practice end-to-end transaction processing in a fully configured environment including agency values, workflow and security
• Due to the complexity of configuring and maintaining multiple environments and the timeline we are all working towards, we are not able to provide
4. As delivered by Oracle, the data warehouse has data spread across multiple areas which are difficult to link in a single report
• Project team enhancing several key subject areas in the data warehouse such as AP, AR and GL to make agency ad-hoc reporting easier; there will be incremental releases of these enhancements after Go-Live
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Expectations Setting (continued)
• Despite tens of thousands of hours of testing by our team and agencies there will be issues that will need to be fixed at Go-Live
• There are many points of failure for a transaction from an agency interface or on-line entry, through multiple modules, through security, workflow budget checking, to the desired outcome, e.g. check/ACH or deposit
• We will need to address issues as they arise collaboratively
• The first step is attempting to resolve the issue is for end-users to use the tools provided (job aids, training materials, UPK)
• Knowledgeable personnel at your agency are critical as a 1st line of support
• For escalation to the Help Desk – provide good descriptions of the issue and the urgency
• Be patient, but not too patient; if it is a critical transaction or reporting issue and it is not being attended to in a timely manner then use the reply feature within the Help Desk Software to communicate and convey the critical nature of your incident to the analyst assigned to your ticket
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PR
OD
UC
TIV
ITY
TIME
END of JULY/AUGUST: “I’m learning SMART and starting to get comfortable; this might just work”
BEYOND OCTOBER: “I’m learning how to use more advanced features of SMART to meet agency business challenges; I’m excited!”
MAY/JUNE “I can do this task in 10 minutes”
JULY/AUGUST: “This takes me 2x -3x longer than the way we used to do it; I’m confused and frustrated”
AUGUST - OCTOBER: “I know SMART better and shortcuts; I’m back to where I was; I can do this task in 10 minutes”
Expectations Setting – Productivity Impact
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SMART Cutover Strategy
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Cutover Stages
• Performance Testing identifies batch and on-line process that do not complete within an acceptable time. Performance issues are not uncommon in large implementations of PeopleSoft. There are various remedies for addressing performance issues and there is an experienced team from Accenture working on performance tuning. Performance testing has been on-going for two months and is expected to continue until the end of May.
• End User Testing Completed! 30 agencies executed 486 scripts in 12 days! (approximately 40 scripts per day) It took a great effort on the part of the agency users and the Project subject matter experts to get all this work completed in the short time allotted. In spite of network problems and power outages, they got it done. THANK YOU!
• Dress Rehearsal – a full sequence of cutover activities executed in the same time windows, i.e. 24x7 and weekends – is complete. Learnings from this activity have been built into the Cutover Checklist.
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Cutover Stages (continued)
• Operational Readiness Testing Began May 10th and simulates operations in the production environment and day-to-day processing, including: help desk, batch scheduling, and select interfaces. This is a three week exercise that ends May 28th.
• Deployment is the set up of the SMART system and will run from June 1st through July 30th
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Key Agency FinalConversion Dates
Final Data Conversion Files Due Dates:Pre Go-Live• June 4 – Customer File (Task ID 302) • June 4 – Projects File (Task ID 306)
• June 11 – Purchasing Contracts File (Task ID 305)
• June 16 – Asset File (Task ID 303)– Capital assets received between 6/16/10 and 6/30/10 will need to be entered online in
SMART after Go-Live. Agencies should retain a log of their assets from this time period and may use the Asset Data Entry Template to enter them into SMART.
FINAL CONVERSION MEETING – June 14th 2:00-3:00 DSOB Auditorium
Post Go-Live• July 16 – Pending Items File (Task ID 304)
• July 16 – SMART closes at 2:00 PM for conversion of STARS balances and encumbrances
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Key Interface Dates
Interface Dates for agency-facing interfaces:
• June 7 – Begin daily execution of INF01 – Vendor Download (Task ID 307)– From June 5 to June 30, all new vendors will needed to be added by
Accounts and Reports in STARS. Starting July 1, agencies can add vendors in SMART.
• June 8 – Begin daily execution of INF15 – ChartField Extract
(Task ID 308)
• June 28 – Begin bi-weekly execution of INF42 – Time & Labor Interface
• July 1 – All other agency interfaces begin (Task ID 292)
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Year End Processing
• Informational Circular No. 10-A-014 is available on the A&R website– Provides dates for closing FY2010 and beginning FY2011– http://www.da.ks.gov/ar/infocirc/fy2010/Ic10a014.htm
• All FY2011 transactions must be processed in SMART– FY2010 transactions must be processed in STARS– STARS and SOKI will not accept FY2011 transactions
• Closing Dates– STARS will close on July 6, 2010
• Online payment vouchers must be entered by noon• Online DA118s and DA107s must be entered by 6:00 PM• The cutoff for FY2010 dataset transactions into STARS is noon on June 29
– SOKI will close on July 6, 2010 at 2:00 PM
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Year End Processing (continue)
• Contact A&R with questions about:– Closing FY2010– FY2010 transactions in
STARS and SOKIContact Randy Kennedy at 785.296.2125,[email protected]
• Contact the SMART HelpDesk with questions about:– Opening FY2011– FY2011 transactions
in SMART
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Finance Team Updates
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Projects and Grants
•Overview– Grants
– Project Costing
– Customer Contracts
– Billing and Revenue Processes
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Grants/Projects/Contracts Integration
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Grants Management
The Grants module is used to store Grants
Proposal and Award information– Grant award details for each award– Grant Sponsor Information– Grant award budgets– Facilities and Administration (Indirect costs)
setup– Cost Sharing setup (i.e. State Matching)
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Grant Budgets
• If using the Grants module agencies may elect to enter their grant budget in the Grants module. Budgets entered in Grants can be set up using Budget Items that are typically included in a grant budget (e.g. Salaries and Wages, Fringe Benefits, Travel, Supplies, etc.)
• Budget Items are configured based on Account Code, (for example: Salaries and Fringe Benefits are items that are within the 51000 Account Codes)
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Indirect Costs
Grants Module comes delivered with F&A functionality
– F&A is also known as “Indirect Costs”
– Indirect Costs are automatically calculated using a specified rate approved by the federal sponsor
– Indirect Costs calculated by the system are stored within the Project Costing tables and are available for Federal Reporting purposes
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Tracking Grant Costs
• Grant costs are tracked by adding a Project and Activity to the grant and including that Project ID and Activity ID on transactions (such as vouchers)
• The award generation process will automatically generate a project and contract (for billing/revenue recognition)
• A project can represent an entire award or a portion of an award. Every award requires at least one project and every project requires at least one activity.
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Grants Cash Reimbursement
• Grant reimbursements are managed by the Customer Contracts module
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Grant Award
Note the Multiple Projects for this Grant
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Grant Budget
Multiple budget items on this grant
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Project Summary Report
The Budget Items on the Grant award display on this report. The Account ChartField determines the Budget Item that the expense falls within.
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Project Costing
•Project Costing is the module used to collect costs that need to be tracked, reported, and/or billed to a specific project
•Project can be a grant project or a non-grant project
•Each Project must have at least one activity
•Project activities may be reimbursable from an external organization (Federal grant sponsor, Non-profit organization, etc.) or non-reimbursable
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Project Costing (continued)
• Project Costing can be used to track both the Federal share of costs, the State share of costs (match) for a grant, and in-kind transactions– If one project is used to track your grant costs, you
will need to establish one activity for the Federal share and one activity for the State share
– Alternatively, since one grant can have multiple projects, you can establish one project for the Federal share and one project for the State share. Each of the projects will need at least one activity.
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Project Costs
• Project Costing uses Analysis Types for processing transactions. Some examples include:– PAY rows are transactions for employee hours from the
Time and Labor module– LBR and CLB rows are the payroll cost rows that
include both the Gross Pay and Fringe benefits for agencies that use the Time and Labor module. These costs come into the General Ledger and from the GL to Project Costing. CLB is the analysis type that is used for payroll that is funded with Funds 1000 through 2999
– ACT rows are the cost transactions that come into Project Costing from Accounts Payable and Expenses
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Project Costs (continued)
• Project Costing costs (billable costs only) are picked up by the Customer Contracts module to bill external entities. Analysis types in PC are used to facilitate the billing processes:
– BIL rows (Billable Amounts) are created for each of the actual costs that are intended to be billed (or drawn down) to the external sponsor
– BLD rows (Billed Amount) replace the BIL rows after the Billing process is completed. This prevents double billing.
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Project Costs (continued)
• Project Costing table
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Customer Contracts
• Customer Contracts is the module that is used to process Billing and Revenue for reimbursements of costs collected in Project Costing
• Pulls the billing rows (BIL) from the Project Costing module and applies billing and revenue recognition rules to create accounting entries for both Billing and Revenue
• Customer Contracts sends the billable rows to the Billing Worksheet in the Billing module
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Billing
• Billing Worksheet is used to approve the billing transactions prior to invoice finalization (and drawdown)
• Worksheet is approved and the Invoice is Finalized (and drawdown is made):
– Billing transactions are sent to Accounts Receivable (AR) module as Pending Items awaiting receipt of cash after agency draws down funds from sponsor
– Billing information is sent back to Contracts and Projects to update BIL rows to BLD rows so that duplicate billings will not occur
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Billing Process FlowProcess Contracts Billing
Gra
nts
Adm
inis
trat
orP
roce
ss S
ched
uler
Con
trac
ts
Adm
inis
trat
or
Contract Controls(Billing Plan)
PROJ_RESOURCE
Table
Real Billor
Approve Billing
Worksheet(optional)
Temporary Bills
PROJ_RESOURCE
Table Updated
CA/BI Cross Reference
Table Updated
A
End
Run Billing Engine
Process
Run Billing
Interface Process
Run PC/CA
Interface Process
Run PC/BI Interface Process
Run Finalization
Process
Billing Interface Staging Tables
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Revenue Process Flow
Process Contracts Revenue
Gra
nts
Ad
min
istr
ato
rB
atc
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Ad
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ato
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General Ledger
Updated
End
Contract Acct’g Table
Updated
PC/Contract Acct’g Table
Updated
Run Def. Revenue Process
Run Amt-Based Rev.
Process
Run Rate-Based Rev.
Process
Run Journal
Generator Process
Run Journal
Generator Update
Contracts Revenue Plan & Event Status
Updated
PROJ_RESOURCE
Table Updated
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Create Project
Create a new project for which you want to track costs
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Establish Project
Establish your project
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Project Activities
Enter project activities to break the project down into specific tasks for a lower level of expenditure tracking
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Create Contract In order to send costs from your reimbursable project to the Billing
module, you must create a contract in the Customer Contracts module and associate your project to it. The contract tells SMART how to process the project’s reimbursable costs and how to recognize the associated revenue.
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Contract Header Enter Contract Header information such as description (much of this
information will default)
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Contract Lines
Every contract must have at least one line which is tied to a “product.” If you are billing for costs collected in the Project Costing module you will use a Rate Based product. The pre-configured rate-based product is the Grants_As_Incurred product.
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Billing and Revenue Processes
• In the contract module you will establish the Billing Limit for the contract and associate any projects/activities you want to be able to bill for. The Billing Limit is generally the Grant Award amount if this is a grant-related Project. If you have started with the Grants module, this information will automatically be populated in the contract.
• You only associate the Projects and Activities for which you are billing or drawing down. Since you will not be billing for match costs, you will not associated your match activity (or project if you have defined a separate project to track you matching costs) to the contract.
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Billing and Revenue Processes (continued)
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Billing and Revenue – Voucher
• Processing transactions: Create a voucher for a $40 supplies purchase
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Billing and Revenue – Invoice Information
• Add the funding distribution line to the voucher, including the project and activity
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Billing and Revenue – Voucher Processing
• Once the voucher passes Editing, Budget Checking, Approvals and Posts, a Cost Collection process is run to bring a record of the voucher transaction into Project Costing
• Since the project is tied to a reimbursable contract, the transaction will appear as 2 separate rows on the EM_PROJECT Transaction List:– An ACT row for $40 identifying the transaction as an Actual
Cost
– A BIL row for $40 identifying that the project has a $40 billable transaction ready for processing
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Billing and Revenue – Transaction List
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Billing and Revenue – Transaction Detail
• The funding distribution for the transaction is also brought into Project Costing
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Billing and Revenue – Billing
• Next, overnight batch processes will run in the Customer Contracts and Billing modules to begin the process of billing your sponsor for the incurred $40 project cost
• That following morning, the costs eligible for billing will be pushed onto the Billing Worksheet, where your agency has the opportunity to review and approve the specific bills you wish to process
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Billing and Revenue – Worksheet Headers
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Billing and Revenue – Billing Worksheet
• When you approve the Billing Worksheet, you should access your external federal draw system and submit your request for funds from your federal sponsor
• After the Billing Worksheet is approved, a Pending Item is created in Accounts Receivable and you will prepare to receive the cash from your draw request
• The accounting transactions created by the billing processes will setup a debit to the Accounts Receivable account
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Billing and Revenue Billing Worksheet (continued)
• As soon as you complete the Federal Draw, a deposit must be entered and agency approved so it is ready for State Treasurer approval when the money is received
• After the cash arrives and is deposited into the fund, the Account Receivable account will be relieved (credited) and the cash account will be debited
• Billed information is sent back to Customer Contracts and Project Costing to keep all modules in sync
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Billing and Revenue – Transaction List
• The BIL rows in the Project Costing tables are updated to BLD rows, thus ensuring that costs are not picked up and billed again
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Billing and Revenue –Revenue Recognition Process
• Concurrently, the system runs the revenue recognition process for the billing that has occurred. This books the revenue to the General Ledger and updates the recognized revenue amount on the contract.
• Revenue accounting lines that are created and booked to the General Ledger inherit the ChartFields that were used on the original transactions, but replace the expense account code with the revenue account code
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Billing and Revenue –As Incurred Journal Acctg Lines
• General Ledger entries can be viewed in Customer Contracts pages
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Billing and Revenue – Create Deposit
• You will create the deposit in Accounts Receivable for the money you drew down from your sponsor and match it up with the pending item created by the billing process
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Billing and Revenue – Totals
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Billing and Revenue – Payment Details
• Enter the Payment details such as Payment ID, Amount and Customer ID. Then, associate your pending item (this is your invoice number created in the Billing module when you approved the Billing Worksheet).
• Note: checking the Payment Predictor checkbox will automate the Payment Worksheet steps that are displayed in the next slides
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Billing and Revenue – Payments
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Billing and Revenue –Payment Worksheet
• Create a Payment Worksheet to apply the deposit to the pending item
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Billing and Revenue –Payment Worksheet (continued)
• The Payment Worksheet will display all pending items available for your agency
• However, it will match your deposit amount to the pending item for you by marking the checkbox on the appropriate line
• Once you validate the selection, navigate to the Worksheet Action link at the bottom to actually apply the payment
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Billing and Revenue – Payment Worksheet (continued)
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Billing and Revenue – Payment Worksheet Action
• To apply the payment, click the Create/Review Entries button to create the accounting entries
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Billing and Revenue – Accounting Entries
• The accounting entries page will display for review. This will book to General Ledger after cash is received
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Billing and Revenue – Deposit Approval
• The deposit is approved by the agency and released to the State Treasurer’s Office
• After cash is received the State Treasurer’s Office approves and releases the deposit
• The final budget check process is run to update all of the fund balances and journals are generated in the General Ledger to relieve Account Receivable and debit cash, at which time the funds are released to the agency
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10 Minute Break
• Please return promptly so the meeting may end on time
• If you wrote questions on note cards:– Pass them to a presenter
– Include your name and agency
– We will respond to all questions
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BreakPlease return in 10 minutes
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Billing Topics
•Billing– Overview
– Online Entry
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Billing – Overview
• Real-time receivable and billing visibility, tracking and control for reporting and financial data
• Streamlined approach that enables you to bill your customers quickly and efficiently
• Reduction of duplicate entries and manual processing due to complete integration with other SMART modules
• In addition to regular bills, the Billing Module allows users to create recurring, installment and consolidated bills
• SMART invoices can be mailed or sent electronically to customers
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Billing Lifecycle Process
From Other
SMART Modules
Receive Bill Data
Create BillsValidate and Review Bills
(Create Updates, if necessary)
Finalize Bills and Print Invoices
Adjust Invoices
Invoices Loaded into
Accounts Receivable and General Ledger
Yes
Create and Enter
Customers and Contacts
No
Do Errors Exist?
Invoices Sent to Customer
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Header Information 1
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Line Information 1
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Accounting Revenue Distribution
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Billing – Invoice
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Accounts Receivable Topics
•Deposit Entry– General Information– Online– Interface/Upload
• Interfunds– Overview– Interfund Entry– Contacts/Notification
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Deposit Entry
• There are three ways in which a deposit is created in SMART: – Online
– Spreadsheet Deposit Upload (INF43)
– Interface • INF44 – Inbound Deposit Interface
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• When a deposit is created, there is an ‘Assigned’ field. This field is designated for the user creating the deposit; their USERID will be displayed.
• When interfacing or uploading deposit transactions into SMART, the USERID ‘UC4’ will be displayed in this field (INF43/INF44)
• The deposit page also shows the USERID of the agency person who approved the deposit and the State Treasurer person who approved the deposit. It also shows the date/time the deposit was released by State Treasurer
Online Deposit Entry –Overview
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Online Deposit Entry –Totals
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Online Deposit Entry – Payments
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Online Deposit Entry – Accounting Entries
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Spreadsheet Deposit Upload – INF43
• An Excel spreadsheet is used to upload deposits into SMART
• INF43 is available to any agency using the SMART Accounts Receivable Module
• Spreadsheet is Microsoft Office Version 2003 (.xls) and is compatible with Microsoft Office Version 2007 (.xlsx)
• There is not a required naming convention, meaning you can name the file as you wish
• There is a UPK to assist with use of INF43 (the printed UPK is a user procedure)
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Spreadsheet Deposit Upload – INF43 (continued)
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• A flat file Interface is used to send deposit transactions from an agency system into SMART
• Agencies using INF44 have completed Interface Testing of their files
Inbound Deposit Interface – INF44
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Deposit State Treasurer Requirements
• The State Treasurer requires a print-out of the Deposit Totals page for deposits that contain cash or check(s)
• The Deposit Totals page, along with the monies are to be delivered to the State Treasurers Cage Window
• Cage Window hours are Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; monies received after 2:00 p.m. will not be included in current day business
• EFT Deposits (wire and ACH) must be entered into SMART as soon as the Agency is aware the money is to be received
• Upon receiving the EFT, State Treasurer will approve and release the deposit, making the funds available to the agency
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Interfunds – Overview
• The SMART Interfund page displays both the deposit and voucher side of the transaction, including the accounting for each side
• Agency approvals are required on both the deposit and voucher sides of the Interfund transaction
• SMART displays the USERID for the person who entered and approved the deposit/voucher in the ‘Entered By’ and ‘Approved By’ fields (if loaded via interface/upload, the ‘Entered By’ field defaults to ‘UC4’)
• The USERID is a link that when clicked will show the user’s name, work e-mail and work phone number (this information is linked from SHARP)
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Interfunds – Overview (continued)
• The Interfund page links to delivered deposit and voucher pages, meaning that entry of such transactions mirror entry of Non-Interfund transactions
• Interfund vouchers do not follow workflow
• Comments on the Interfund page are shared by both the deposit and voucher sides of the transaction. It is a free-form field that allows up to 2,000 characters.
• Accounts and Reports conducts a review of Interfund transactions after completion
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Determine Need for an
Interfund Transaction
Pass Budget Check?
Un-approve Interfund
Transaction(s)(Deposit and/or
Voucher)
Update Interfund Transaction(s)(Deposit and/or
Voucher)
Add/Link Initiating Interfund
Transaction (Deposit or Voucher)
Budget Check
Deposit and Voucher
Generate Journals
Interfund Complete
Add/Link Reciprocating
Interfund Transaction (Deposit or Voucher)
Approve Initiating Interfund
Transaction
Approve Reciprocating
Interfund Transaction
SMART Confirms Interfund Deposit
and Voucher Approved
No
Yes
Re-Approve Interfund
Transaction(s)(Deposit and/or
Voucher)
End-to-End Interfund Process
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Interfunds
•There are three ways which an interfund can be created in SMART:– Online
– Excel Upload• INF43 – Spreadsheet Deposit Upload• INF50 – Spreadsheet Voucher Upload
– Interface• INF02 – Voucher Load Interface• INF44 – Inbound Deposit Interface
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Interfund Search Page
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Interfund Details Page
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Interfunds
• The customer and vendor contacts are used by SMART Interfunds for notification purposes
• Agencies defined contacts on Agency Task 266
• Customer contacts are maintained by Agencies
• Vendor contacts are maintained by Accounts & Reports (a form will be used to request updates)
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Interfunds (continued)
• You may select more than one contact
• Upon selecting a contact, you must then click the ‘Notify’ button. This sends a notification to the contact stating that an Interfund transaction has been created.
• You can manually add names to the e-mail that opens. Names added to the e-mail are not validated against your e-mail address book.
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Interfund Contacts – Deposit
9999
Interfund Contacts – Voucher
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Interfund Contacts – Notify
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Agency Task List Update
102102
Agency Task List Updates
Posted to Sunflower Project website
http://www.da.ks.gov/smart/
AgencyTask ListUpdates
New Task List posted on the
website 5/11/2010
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May 2010 June 2010
Agency TasksMay 2010 – June 2010
Confirm Appropriateness of Agency Contacts for Post Go-Live Activities –
Task ID 318
Encourage SMART Users to Subscribe to Sunflower Project InfoList – Task ID 317
Enter Converted Project Data 6/14-6/18 in SMART –
Task ID 288
Participate in Go-Live Readiness – Task ID 300
Submit Operating Budget Journals and Project Budget Journals – Task ID 287
Update Conversion Time Reporter Data for Cutover – Task
ID 301
Monthly Conversion
Meeting 6/14/10 – Task ID 251
Complete Default T&E Department ID Configuration Activity – Task ID 320
Updates to Depreciation Attributes – Intangible Software – Task ID 321
Note Changes: 6/14/10, 2:00-3:30 DSOB Auditorium
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May 2010 June 2010
Agency TasksMay 2010 – June 2010 (continued)
Communicate Process for Escalating Incidents via Agency SMART Help Desk Contact – Task ID 299
Communicate Process and Timeline to Receive SMART User ID and Password –
Task ID 298
Agency Communicate Business Processes and Notify Users of SMART Duties – Task ID 296
Agency Security Liaison Understand Security Request Initiation Procedures – Task ID 294
Prepare to Submit Security Request Forms for Security Identified After Role Mapping Maintenance is Complete –
Task ID 285
Maintain Agency Role Mapping and Send
Updates – Task ID 290
Multi-BU Security Options – Task ID 319
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May 2010 June 2010
Agency Training TasksMay 2010 – June 2010
Agency Staff Attend SMART Training – Task ID 101
Monitor Agency Staff Training Attendance – Task ID 102
Enroll Agency Staff in Level 3 WBT and ILT Training – Task ID 88
Agency Staff Complete 300 Level WBT Training – Task ID 258
Ensure Agency Staff are Enrolled and Confirmed for Training Sessions – Task ID 89
Agency Staff Complete 100 and 200-Level WBT Training – Task ID 257
Monitor Agency Staff Completion of WBT Training – Task ID 259
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Future Change Agent Network Meetings
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Role Mapping
• Tomorrow is the last day to submit updates to your agency’s role mapping
• Don’t forget:– If submitting an update, follow directions in the Role
Mapping Handbook carefully to avoid processing delays
– Remove retired and terminated employees from your agency’s role mapping
– Continue to maintain your agency’s master User Role Workbook for future reference
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Role Mapping Considerations – Incidents Logged During ORT
Review your agency’s role mapping to prevent similar issues at go-live
•Issue: User unable to access SMART– Cause: User roles were not assigned in role mapping– Resolution: Revise role mapping. Ensure the people processing
transactions in SMART are mapped to the necessary user roles
•Issue: User cannot enter vouchers– Cause: User’s settings specify vouchers can only be entered in control
groups; user does not have access to create & maintain control groups– Resolution: Revise role mapping. Change settings or grant access to
create & maintain control groups
•Issue: Cannot process transaction due to staff unavailability– Cause: No back-ups were designated for key functions– Resolution: Revise role mapping. Add a second or third user for critical
functions
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Security Requests – Key Dates
Milestone SMART SHARP
Last day to submit role mapping updates 5/14/2010 5/14/2010
Security requests will not be accepted 5/15/2010 to 6/30/2010
5/15/2010 to 6/22/2010
Post go-live security process starts 7/1/2010 6/23/2010
• The SMART post go-live security process includes:– SMART roles– Finance roles in the Data Warehouse
• The SHARP post go-live security process includes:– Existing SHARP roles– Time & Labor roles– HR roles in the Data Warehouse
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SMART Post Go-Live Security Process Highlights
• A Security Request Form will be required in order to:– Add a user– Remove a user– Modify the user roles, settings, or workflow assigned to an existing
user
• Security Request Forms must be submitted:– To the SMART Help Desk– By your agency’s designated SMART Security Liaison
• Security Request Form:– Includes many elements of the role mapping task– Excludes some items that can be configured by agencies
The Post Go-Live Security Process will be published in June
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Go-Live Readiness
• We continue to receive updates and follow up with agencies as needed– Several agencies have not sent their first update yet– Please send it right away
• Updates are simple– Maintain a copy of the checklist with your agency’s status– Every two weeks email the file to [email protected]– Send it regardless of whether there have been updates
• Please continue to:– Send your updated Agency Go-Live Readiness Checklist
every two weeks– Contact us with issues or questions
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Agency Readiness Transitions to Steady State Processes
• The project team is transitioning to steady state processes– The Help Desk was turned on full time as of May 10– Agency Readiness Liaisons have transitioned to their steady state roles
• Your primary support resources are now:– Your agency Tier 0 support– SMART Help Desk
• Email [email protected] only for Agency Go-Live Readiness Checklists, or as specifically directed in project communications
• The Q&A document on the SMART website is no longer being updated– Look to the Knowledgebase for new information and support articles
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Reporting Update
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Reporting - SMART
• Reporting in SMART can and will be accomplished with different reporting tools and options
• Each option has specific capabilities and can be correlated to specific report request types– Production
• PS On-line Inquiries• Custom and Delivered SMART Reports• Custom and Delivered SMART Queries
– Data Warehouse• Agency Access to SHARP Data HR and Payroll• Super Subject Areas for Fiscal Data• Delivered Set of Executive/Management Dashboards
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Reporting - Production
• Production reporting options are run by agencies in SMART, data is same day and available for all modules. Queries and Reports are created centrally with dynamic prompts
• On-line Inquiry, over 100– Often used for quick ad hoc answers such as what is the check number of
a particular payment– In some modules there are on-line inquiry tools that provide an opportunity
to search for transaction level detail which can be exported to excel• Query, delivered and custom
– Used for quick ad hoc answers– Used to retrieve a rows of transactional data that does not need to be pre-
formatted– Can be exported to excel, html, pdf and csv
• Reports, delivered and custom, over 150 (includes queries)– Used for daily, weekly or monthly reports requiring a consistent format– Can be exported to excel, html, pdf and csv
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Reporting – Data Warehouse
• Data Warehouse reporting options are run agencies in the Data Warehouse using BI Answers, data is as of prior day. Report requests and dashboards are created by agencies
• Agency Access to SHARP Data HR and Payroll– Report on analytics
• Headcount total by Department ID• Total Comp time paid by Department ID • OT hours and earnings by job code
• Agency Access to SMART Fiscal Data– Report on analytics such as
• Outstanding Accounts Payable• Expenditures for top 10 vendors• Deposit / receipts amounts
• Delivered Set of Executive/Management Dashboards– Dashboards provide key analytics for agency leadership and fiscal officers
by day, week or month
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Reporting – Data Warehouse
• Data from SHARP and SMART is Extracted, Transformed and Loaded into the data warehouse
• Each Mart in the Data Warehouse contains multiple subject areas
• As delivered, data cannot be consolidated to meet agencies’ current needs. Multiple reports are required to answer basic transactional questions
ProductionSource Systems
SHARP
SMART
HCMMart
SCMMart
FINMart
Data Warehouse
FIN Mart
SA 1
SA 2
SA 3 SA
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Reporting – Data Warehouse
• Project will create 3-4 consolidated “super” subject areas• This will provide consolidated data which can be accessed by
agencies using the DW reporting/query tools• Project will create common report request and dashboards agencies
can use as a starting point and then customize to meet their agency reporting analytics
FIN Mart
SA 1
SA 2
SA 3 SA
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FIN Mart
SA n
Consolidated“Super”
SA
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Reporting Strategy & Approach Steps – Task ID 265
• After attending training in mid-May agencies will be able to develop agency-specific reports in the data warehouse – report development environment will be available in late-May
• If a critical agency report cannot be developed in the data warehouse, it will be developed by the Sunflower Project
• Sunflower Project Team will work with agencies on the design specification for critical reporting gaps
• For agencies with similar reporting gaps, we will develop those reports centrally and add to the inventory of reports already developed
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SMART Support
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SMART Support
• The SMART Help Desk went live on Monday, May 10th! All questions or incidents related to SMART should now be routed to the SMART Help Desk.
• SMART Help Desk analysts will be available during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Help Desk’s hours of operation will be expanded closer to go-live.
• Utilize the [email protected] email only for Agency Go-live Readiness Checklists, role mapping updates, or if specifically directed to in Sunflower Project emails. All other communication should be directed to the SMART Help Desk.
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SMART Support
Transitioning to the SMART Tiered Support Structure now:– Provides a managed and structured approach for
support of SMART, Data Warehouse, and SHARP Time and Labor users
– Gives agencies an opportunity to become familiar with the tiered structure of support prior to go-live
– Familiarize SMART Help Desk Contacts and Liaisons with the ServiceDesk software prior to go-live
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SMART Support
• As Tier 0, your agency is your initial resource for questions related to SMART– All SMART end-user’s should search for solutions in the SMART
Solutions Knowledge base. http://www.da.ks.gov/smart/
– We also suggest checking in the online repository of training materials, UPK’s and Web-based training located at:
http://www.da.ks.gov/smart/training.html
• SMART Help Desk Contacts/Liaisons can log an incident on line at http://www.da.ks.gov/smart/ through the ServiceDesk link
• Call the SMART Help Desk at 785-368-8000, Select Option 2
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ServiceDesk Links on SMART Website
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SMART/SHARP Integration
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Bank Account Information• Direct Deposit Data in SHARP as of June 18th will be sent to SMART to load into the Travel and Expense Module.
• This will be a one-time update and will only occur during the initial implementation of SMART.
• The lowest priority number bank account in SHARP defaults into the Travel and Expense module as the bank account that will be used for Expense Reimbursements
• Each agency will need a business process to make the information available to whomever in the agency will be updating bank information in both SHARP and SMART
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Address Data
• Employee’s home address data will be used by the Travel and Expense Module in SMART for employee expense reimbursements. Address data that is incorrect in SMART must be corrected in SHARP. It will be messaged over almost real-time once the change is made.
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Phone Number and Email Address
• Employee Phone Numbers and Email Addresses are used in SMART.
• Purchase Orders (PO) in SMART that resulted from a P-card (BPC) purchase include a statement printed on PO that says to contact the cardholder and includes their name and phone number from SHARP. The only Phone Number that is sent for the employee is if the Phone Type is ‘Main’.
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Phone Number and Email Address
• The only Email Address that is sent for the employee from SHARP is if the Email Type is ‘Business’.
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Department ID
• All Department IDs, including budgetary only, are maintained in SMART
• Default Department ID for Travel & Expense (T&E) transactions comes from the payee's department in SHARP. A modification to SMART was done to not override the T&E department with a Department from SHARP unless the employee changes agencies.
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Default Travel and Expense Department ID - Task 320
• Some employees are in SHARP with budgetary only Department IDs.
• Department IDs from SHARP were used to populate the SMART Travel and Expense module. SMART requires the Department ID to be transactional, rather than just budgetary. If this task is not completed, the Sunflower Project will assign a transactional Department ID for each listed employee.
• Complete Default Travel and Expense Department ID Configuration Activity (Agency Task 320) – due May 14, 2010
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Department ID• Effective June 23rd agencies will need to send all requests for new Department ID’s on form GL_F003 to [email protected] The form will be available from the SMART and Accounts and Reports websites.
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Department ID
• All forms will require an agency Finance contact to review and submit the form because of how Department ID’s are used in SMART.
• The SMART team will review the request and make sure that it is appropriate, falls within a logical range, and works with existing budget definitions. They will make the necessary ChartField and tree changes and notify the Division of Personnel Services
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Reports To
• The reports to field in SHARP is populated in the “supervisor” field in the expense user profile.
• The expense document is routed to the employee in this field for the first level of approval.
• The agency has the option to change the report to in SMART on the organizational data tab.
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Reports To
• IF THE AGENCY CHANGES THE SUPERVISOR ID FIELD ON THIS PAGE, IT CAN NEVER HAVE CHANGES FLOW FROM SHARP AGAIN. ANY CHANGES TO SUPERVISOR ID WILL HAVE TO BE MAINTAINED IN BOTH SHARP AND SMART. If an employee changes agencies, the new supervisor id will flow from SHARP once again, unless and until the supervisor id is updated in SMART.
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Travel and Expense
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Reports To
• There MUST be a value in the supervisor id field. It may flow from SHARP, or it may be maintained in SMART. If there is not a supervisor id, expense documents will not be routed for approval.
• Supervisor id was collected during role mapping. If the supervisor id is different on the role mapping than what is in SHARP, we will update the value in SMART. If it is the same value, we will not update it.
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SHARP Data with Impacts in SMART
Data from (SHARP)
Copies to (SMART) Frequency Make updates in
Banking information
Account used for expense reimbursements made via ACH
One time (June 18) Both
Home address Mailing address used for expense reimbursements made via check
Almost real time SHARP
Phone number and email address
Contact info on printed PO for P-card purchases
Almost real time SHARP
Department ID of employee’s position
Default ChartField for expense reimbursements
Nightly – Triggered when employee changes agencies
SHARP
Reports To Supervisor ID in Travel & Expense user profile (workflow)
Nightly – Triggered when updated in SHARP *
SHARP
* If Supervisor ID is updated in SMART, updates are not triggered again until the employee changes agencies. Until then, this field must be maintained in both systems
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SHARP Conversion Events and Key
Dates
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SHARP Conversion
• To prepare for the integration of SHARP with the Statewide Management, Accounting and Reporting Tool, (SMART) a conversion will need to occur during the first pay period of Fiscal Year 2011
• The SHARP conversion is scheduled to occur during the pay period of June 13, 2010 to June 26, 2010. The conversion will take place beginning Friday, June 18, 2010.
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Data Conversion Events and Dates
• Friday, June 18, 2010: This is the last day that users will be able to enter transactions prior to the conversion. Conversion to the integrated version of SHARP will take place starting after batch processing finishes Friday evening.
• Saturday, June 19, 2010 to Tuesday, June 22, 2010: SHARP will be converted to include the integration with SMART.
• Wednesday, June 23, 2010: Access for SHARP and Self-Service users to the integrated version of SHARP is scheduled to be restored on June 23rd. SHARP and Self-Service User IDs and passwords will be the same as User IDs and passwords on Friday, June 18, 2010.
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Cutoff Dates for Data Changes
• The cutoff for setup or configuration changes in SHARP is June 11, 2010.
• This includes updates to Pool ID’s, Location Codes, and Department Budget Table updates
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Payroll Changes
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Paycheck ChangesPaycheck Numbers
• Effective July 1, 2010, all printed paycheck numbers will be 10 digits instead of 7 digits.
• The printed paycheck will have a prefix of 100 added to the front of the 7-digit SHARP paycheck number
• The 7-digit SHARP paycheck number will continue to be used for employee paycheck view and the PAY002 report. SMART will use the 10-digit number.
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Info Circs: Payroll Paycheck, Processing, Interface Changes
• 10-P-022: KPAYGL5C Updated File Layout Issued: February 9, 2010
• 10-P-024: Fiscal Year End Payroll Processing for FY10 and Transition to SMART for FY11 Issued: May 5, 2010
• Info Circulars can be accessed at the Accounts and Reports website at www.da.ks.gov/sharp
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Employer ExpenditureReporting Changes
• In STARS, expenditure sub-object codes 1750 and 1950 are used to split out the State Employer Contribution for Dependent Health Insurance and Employee Group Health Insurance.
• Accounts will replace sub-object codes in SMART
• Effective July 1, 2010, all employer contributions for Group Health Hospitalization (both Employee and Dependent) will be charged to one account in SMART (account 519500).
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Employer ExpenditureReporting Changes
• In STARS, expenditure sub-object codes 1910 records employer OASDI and Medicare together
• Effective July 1, 2010, Employer OASDI and Medicare will be charged to separate accounts in SMART
– ER OASDI: Account 519102
– ER Medicare: Account 519101
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Department Budget Tables & Combo Codes
• For SMART conversion, all current FY10 and prior rows in the SHARP Dept Budget/Combination Code tables will be archived
• New FY11 agency funding in SHARP will be loaded from the agency spreadsheets provided for conversion.
• Effective date for FY11 rows in the SHARP Department Budget Tables is June 13, 2010. Budget End date will be June 12, 2011.
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Department Budget Tables & Combo Codes
• After conversion to SMART, all combo code updates will be made via the spreadsheet upload process. Agencies will not enter new combo codes online in SHARP.
• Agencies will be able to validate Department Budget/Combo Codes in SHARP starting June 23rd
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Important Payroll Processing Dates & Notes
• For FY2011 transactions in SMART, Agency General Ledger Budgetary impact for agency on-cycle Payroll is currently scheduled to occur two days prior to payday
• Starting June 28, 2010, all off-cycle transactions for pay periods on or before June 12, 2010 must be submitted on form DA-180 and processed centrally
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Training Update
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Web-Based Training
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Training Questions
Training Questions
• Training Team is monitoring this e-mail inbox and will respond within 48 hours
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Wrap Up
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Project Resources
• Sunflower Project website: http://www.da.ks.gov/smart/
• Sunflower Infolist– Subscribe at http://www.da.ks.gov/gov/listserv.htm
• SMART Help Desk • Search the SMART Solutions Knowledgebase at
https://dahelpdesk.ks.gov/sd/SolutionsHome.sd• Log in to Service Desk at https://dahelpdesk.ks.gov/• Call 785-368-8000, Select Option 2
• Sunflower Project Site: Sunflower Project, 915 SW Harrison, Room 1181, Topeka, Kansas 66612
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