1. Catalog Management & Item Loading Presented by: Barry Estes - Director of Procurement and Contracts Michael Johnson – Sr. Finance Specialist

2. Agenda Introduction Our Situation Challenges What We Did To Make It Work For Us Summary & Questions

3. Sentry at a Glance

4. SRM/Finance Modules in Production Purchasing eProcurement Strategic Sourcing Catalog Management Inventory Supplier Contracts Accounts Payable Asset Management Expenses eVoucher (Custom Module) General Ledger Versions: PeopleSoft 8.9, and PeopleTools 8.47.13 Database: SQL Enterprise 2005, 64 Bit Operating System: Windows 2003 Enterprise 64 Bit

5. Our Situation Short implementation timeline Conversion was limited PeopleSoft Assets implemented

6. Our Situation Non-Catalog items Single, master map source No vendor interfaces

7. Challenges Normalization of the existing data Description formats

8. How We Made It Work Standardized the naming conventions Developed a custom interface

9. Our Interface Solution Tab delimited text file Tables –Item Master, Purchasing Item Attributes, & Vendor Item Two processes, Create & Update Uses PeopleCode

10. Summary & Questions