As we briefly saw in the invoice lifecycle, bills can be entered into the PeopleSoft system manually or through an interface from other PeopleSoft modules or non-PeopleSoft systems. We'll now discuss these approaches in detail. Note that manual bill entry is appropriate when the bill volume is relatively small. Usually for large organizations, the bill data volume is quite high and originates from other sources. For such situations, manual entry is certainly not an option and an automated interface needs to be employed.
PeopleSoft offers a set of interface tables to store bill data from external sources (PeopleSoft/non-PeopleSoft) and a batch process named Billing Interface (BIIF0001) to load the data from these staging tables into billing tables.
Of course, you may be wondering how the bill data will be loaded into the interface tables in the first place. As far as bill data from other PeopleSoft modules (such...
