Stories for May 6, 1998: Honoring Savio and Free Speech 1998 Commencement Does Academic Duty Exist? Berkeley Administration Initiatives: Implementation Starts January 1999 Archeology goes high-tech Farewell to Berkeleyan Editor Fran Marsh San Bruno's Rare Butterflies Undergraduate Scientific Journal Wins Award of Excellence Researchers' Video Helps Injured Workers Helping Russians Develop Ombuds Offices Cal Doctor Treats the "Other" Nagano Athletes Celebrating 50 Years of Chemical Engineering Eugene Wong Named to NSF Post Kos to Coordinate BAI Training Program Special Enrollment May 4-22 for Domestic Partners, Dependent Adults Interviewing the Interviewer Rx for Ailing Roofs and Aging Pipes Preserving UC's Past Berkeley Retirement Center Honors Kragen Photographs Reveal Lost Cemetary Regular Features: News Briefs Obituaries More About...		Berkeley Administrative Initiatives Implementation Starts January 1999 by By Kathleen Phillips Satz, Berkeley Administrative Initiatives posted May. 6, 1998 The Berkeley Administrative Initiatives – the new Berkeley Financial System and Human Resources Management System – will be phased in beginning with Purchasing and Accounts Payable in January 1999. On the recommendation of the BAI Steering Committee, the Chancellor’s Cabinet approved an implementation schedule that provides campus users of the new computer systems with some immediate benefits, since purchasing and accounts payable are common tasks. These two modules will be implemented in central offices, plus selected campus departments, on Jan. 1, 1999, using the old Chart of Accounts. Remaining campus departments will be phased onto the new system during the following six months. On July 1, 1999, the new Chart of Accounts and the General Ledger will become effective. Initially, central offices will be on line with the new General Ledger; campus departments will be phased in over the following six months. In the fall of 1999, the Human Resources Management System will be implemented in the same way. Details of this overall timeline, along with associated training, will be announced on the BAI web site (http://www.bai.berkeley.edu/bai), in future Berkeleyan articles, and through the control unit structure now in place for BAI communications. (See next week’s Berkeleyan for a question-and-answer article on the BAI project, with Chancellor Berdahl and Vice Chancellor Horace Mitchell.) Campus demonstrations of the HRMS were offered in late April, and demos of the Purchasing and Accounts Payable modules of BFS will take place on May 13 and 14, from 10 a.m. to noon, in Sibley Auditorium. Staff from Financial and Business Services will provide information on basic processes in the new software. No pre-enrollment is required; seating will be first come, first served. [ Back to top ]

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