Did LFUCG outgoing administration punt on computer problem?

Business Lexington reports that outgoing LFUCG administration of Mayor Teresa Isaac may have let an old Peoplesoft problem languish since mid-2006, preventing key financial reports and possibly losing data about spent by the departments. Mayor Newberry has put a team on it, but if it’s like many other similar problems, the longer you wait, the worse it gets.

Oracle’s Peoplesoft isn’t small potatoes at LFUCG… This $10 million dollar investment is used government-wide for General Ledger, Purchasing, Procurement, Sourcing, Supplier Communication, Accounts Receivables, Billing, Bill Payment, Settlements, Accounts Payable, Asset Management, Inventory, Project Costing, Grants Management, Contracts Management, Budgeting and Business Planning, Cash Management, Deal Management, Risk Management, Human Resources, Payroll, Time and Labor, Benefits Administration, Employee Benefits, Recruitment, Employee Performance Evaluations, Employee Payroll Data, Compensation, Enterprise Learning Management, Workforce Rewards, Supply Chain, Maintenance Management & Work Orders, and, possibly changing lightbulbs on streetlights.

Goals of the system were to eliminate duplication of work, improve audit and accountability trails, reduce paperwork, and improve inter-departmental communications.

At project launch, the schedule was set as

Estimated roll-out or go-live dates are:
Phase I (Financials Core Implementation) – July 2006 (In progress)
Phase II (Financials Supplemental, Projects, Grants, Inventory, Budgeting) – January 2007
Phase III (HR Core Implementation) – January 2007
Phase IV (HR Supplemental) – June 2007
Phase V (Maintenance Management) – TBD after June 2007

Who knows how wide spread or serious the problem is… we’ll need to wait on Jim Newberry’s team to kno…. but I am certain there’s more to come on this one.

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