The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), a special district within California’s Bay Area that protects and maintains water resources in the area, is seeking replacements for its current financial information and material management information systems.
EBMUD currently employs a PeopleSoft system for its financial record keeping. The system includes modules for accounts receivable, a general ledger, asset management and project cost and billing records. However, the system was last upgraded in 2003 and is no longer supported by PeopleSoft.
EBMUD would also like to replace its procurement, inventory and payment system, which is still written in CoreVision, a COBOL-based coding language, and is supported by only one contractor. A new system should include material costs integration into work orders and an Automatic Clearing House option for vendor payments.
The current budget system and the vendor management system are both based on internally developed applications. EBMUD representatives want a paperless system for both, replacing the multiple reports that must be pulled to audit the budget.
Replacing spreadsheets and an in-house Web application with a capital project management system would reduce project manager tracking needs.
