IBA Sukkur (SIBA)

Implement of PeopleSoft Campus management solution

• IBA Sukkur is one of the leading business institute of Pakistan and recognized by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.
•  It is one of the oldest business institutes in South Asia.

Key Issues:

• SIBA university used to have a legacy system, which just catered to accounts payable business cycle and rest of the business processes were manually followed (Paper-trial environment)
• Salary distribution and receivables were manually followed.
• No online recruitment systems were applied.
• There were no cross checking systems for student fee management
• No cut off dates were followed.
• Extensive use of spread sheet was utilized for Reports generation.
• No single database for employee records existed
• All departments worked in silos

Sapphire’s Approach:

• To address some of the key issues at SIBA, Sapphire Consultancy Services proposed to implement PeopleSoft Campus management solution.
• Sapphire started the implementation project using Oracle OUM methodology which was latest one of that time.
• Sapphire is the first IT Consultancy firm to implement PeopleSoft HCM and FSCM modules in Pakistan.
• We have brought expertise and experience of higher education practices from across the globe

Achievements, Benefits and Current Status:

• Successful implementation of PeopleSoft Financials, Supply Chain and Human capital management modules.
• Automated online recruitment processes has been achieved.
• Employees are utilizing the benefits of Online & Self Service requisitions and employee leave application process at SIBA.
• Periodic performance evaluation of employees is now being processed online using Performance Management module.
• Paperless environment has been achieved via online approvals system of leaves, requisitions and performance documentation.
• PeopleSoft Automated Payroll is now making life easier of end user and maintains the history of employees’ salaries and allowances.
• PeopleSoft Financials is integrated with PeopleSoft Campus management to auto fetch the receivable of students.
• Strong PeopleSoft reporting is gradually making the paperless environment at SIBA.
• Due to PeopleSoft ERP all departments are now integrated from Supply chain to Financials and HCM which makes management easy to make decisions based on the accurate data.