486 Business Process Management (BPM) courses

Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours Overview Ensure a smooth, rapid implementation of PeopleSoft Time and Labor. Better understand how to facilitate the management, planning, reporting and approving of time, and calendar and schedule creation and usage. Set Up System and Time and Labor Tables Learn about and set up the tables that support your Time and Labor system. Identify how to track employee time by period and define workgroups and task groups to group time reporters into useful segments for processing. Manage Time Reporting Enroll time reporters into Time and Labor, and assign them to work schedules. Report time using different tools. Process reported time using the rules you defined to match your business processes. This PeopleSoft Time and Labor - North America Rel. 9.2 training will show you how to implement the PeopleSoft Time and Labor product encompassing features and functionality , and develop a solid foundation of knowledge that allows you to enroll time reporters into Time and Labor, assign them to work schedules, and report and process reported time. SETTING UP PEOPLESOFT HUMAN RESOURCES, PAYROLL, AND BENEFITS TABLES * Indentifying Prerequisite Human Resources, Benefits, and Payroll Tables Defining Prerequisite Tables Defining Holiday Schedules Defining Earnings Codes and Programs Defining Pay Groups and Pay Calendars SETTING UP BASIC PEOPLESOFT TIME AND LABOR TABLES * Setting Up Time Zone Offsets Setting Up the Time and Labor Installation Table Setting Up Manager Time Calendar View Options Selecting the Labor Distriution and Labor Dilution Options ESTABLISHING TIME REPORTING CODES * Describing Time Reporting Codes (TRC) Defining Time Reporting Code Categories Establishing Time Reporting Codes Defining TRC Programs Defning Compensatory Time Plans ESTABLISHING TIME PERIODS * Describing Time Periods Establishing Time Periods ESTABLISHING PLANNED OVERTIME * Describing Planned Overtime Features Establishing Planned Overtime CREATING WORKGROUPS * Describing Key Workgroup Concepts Creating Workgroups DEFINING TEMPLATE BUILT RULES * Identifying Online Rule Definition Tools Identifying Steps to Define Rules Defining Template Built Rules Defining Rule Programs Exporting and Importing Rules Describing Rule Template Creation CREATING TASK GROUPS * Identifying Task Functinlaity Concepts Creating Task Templates Creating Task Profiles Creating Taskgroups Describing Task Profile Reporting Precedence BUILDING SCHEDULES * Identifying Scheduling Concepts Describing Scheduling Integrations Identifying the Steps to Create a Schedule Setting Up Schedules Validating Schedules SETTING UP TIME REPORTERS * Creating Time Reporter Data Maintaining Time Reporter Data Assigning Time Reporters to a Schedule Assigning and Viewing Compensatory Time Off Plans SETTING UP GROUPS AND SECURITY * Describing PeopleSoft Time and Labor Groups and Security Setting Up Group Creating Security Setting Up Dynamic Groups Setting Up Static Groups Viewing Time Reporters in Groups Setting Up Group Security REPORTING TIME USING RAPID ENTRY * Describing Time Reporting Establishing Rapid Time Templates Performing Rapid Entry RUNNING THE TIME ADMINISTRATION PROCESS * Describing the Time Administration Process Describing Time Reporter and Payable Time Status REPORTING TIME USING SELF-SERVICE * Identifying Time Reporting Defining Time Reoprting Templates Defining User Preferences Reporting Time Using Timesheets Reporting Time Using the Web Clock Identifying Mass Time Reporting Requesting Overtime Requesting Absence MANAGING EXCEPTIONS * Defining Exceptions Managing Exceptions USING FLUID AND WORKFORCE AVAILABILITY * Setting Up the Time and Labor Mobile Applications Entering Time Reporting as an Employee Managing Time Administration as a Manager Setting Up Workforce Availability Viewing Workforce Availability for Daily and Weekly Time INTEGRATING WITH PEOPLESOFT PAYROLL FOR NORTH AMERICA * Integrating with Absence Management Preparing for a Payrun Running the Time and Labor Load Process SETTING UP AND USING AUTO ENROLLMENT * Setting Up Auto Enrollment Defining Auto Enrollment Groups Previewing the Enrollment Data PERFORMING LABOR DISTRIBUTION AND DILUTION * Identifying Labor Distribution and Dilution Sending Costs to Time and Labor Viewing Distributed and Diluted Costs AUDITING AND ADJUSTING PAYABLE TIME * Identifying the Stages of Payable Time Adjusting Paid Time Viewing Unprocessed Reported Time Viewing Unprocessed PayableTime Locking Timesheets PERFORMING LABOR DISTRIBUTION AND DILUTION * Identifying Labor Distribution and Dilution Sending Costs to Time and Labor Viewing Distributed and Diluted Costs AUDITING AND ADJUSTING PAYABLE TIME * Identifying the Stages of Payable Time Adjusting Paid Time Viewing Unprocessed Reported Time Viewing Unprocessed PayableTime Locking Timesheets ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS: Nexus Humans Oracle PeopleSoft Time and Labor - North America Rel. 9.2 training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the Oracle PeopleSoft Time and Labor - North America Rel. 9.2 course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for The ideal audience for the RPA and UiPath Boot Camp is beginners in the field of RPA and individuals in roles such as developers, project managers, operation analysts, and tech enthusiasts looking to familiarize themselves with automation technologies. It's also perfectly suited for business professionals keen on understanding and implementing automated solutions within their organizations to optimize processes. Overview This 'skills-centric' course is about 50% hands-on lab and 50% lecture, with extensive practical exercises designed to reinforce fundamental skills, concepts and best practices taught throughout the course. Working in a hands-on learning environment, led by our Automation Learning expert instructor, students will explore: Gain a thorough understanding of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and its applications using UiPath, setting a solid foundation for future learning and application. Learn to record and play in UiPath Studio, a key skill that enables automating complex tasks in a user-friendly environment. Master the art of designing and controlling workflows using Sequencing, Flowcharting, and Control Flow, helping to streamline and manage automation processes effectively. Acquire practical skills in data manipulation, from variable management to CSV/Excel and data table conversions, empowering you to handle data-rich tasks with confidence. Develop competence in managing controls and exploring various plugins and extensions, providing a broader toolkit for handling diverse automation projects. Get hands-on experience with exception handling, debugging, logging, code management, and bot deployment, fundamental skills that ensure your automated processes are reliable and efficient. How to deploy and control Bots with UiPath Orchestrator The Hands-on Natural Language Processing (NLP) Boot Camp is an immersive, three-day course that serves as your guide to building machines that can read and interpret human language. NLP is a unique interdisciplinary field, blending computational linguistics with artificial intelligence to help machines understand, interpret, and generate human language. In an increasingly data-driven world, NLP skills provide a competitive edge, enabling the development of sophisticated projects such as voice assistants, text analyzers, chatbots, and so much more. Our comprehensive curriculum covers a broad spectrum of NLP topics. Beginning with an introduction to NLP and feature extraction, the course moves to the hands-on development of text classifiers, exploration of web scraping and APIs, before delving into topic modeling, vector representations, text manipulation, and sentiment analysis. Half of your time is dedicated to hands-on labs, where you'll experience the practical application of your knowledge, from creating pipelines and text classifiers to web scraping and analyzing sentiment. These labs serve as a microcosm of real-world scenarios, equipping you with the skills to efficiently process and analyze text data. Time permitting, you?ll also explore modern tools like Python libraries, the OpenAI GPT-3 API, and TensorFlow, using them in a series of engaging exercises. By the end of the course, you'll have a well-rounded understanding of NLP, and will leave equipped with the practical skills and insights that you can immediately put to use, helping your organization gain valuable insights from text data, streamline business processes, and improve user interactions with automated text-based systems. You?ll be able to process and analyze text data effectively, implement advanced text representations, apply machine learning algorithms for text data, and build simple chatbots. WHAT IS ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION? * Scope and techniques of automation * Robotic process automation * About UiPath * The future of automation RECORD AND PLAY * UiPath stack * Downloading and installing UiPath Studio * Learning UiPath Studio * Task recorder * Step-by-step examples using the recorder SEQUENCE, FLOWCHART, AND CONTROL FLOW * Sequencing the workflow Activities * Control flow, various types of loops, and decision making * Step-by-step example using Sequence and Flowchart * Step-by-step example using Sequence and Control flow DATA MANIPULATION * Variables and scope * Collections * Arguments ? Purpose and use * Data table usage with examples * Clipboard management * File operation with step-by-step example * CSV/Excel to data table and vice versa (with a step-by-step example) TAKING CONTROL OF THE CONTROLS * Finding and attaching windows * Finding the control * Techniques for waiting for a control Act on controls ? mouse and keyboard activities * Working with UiExplorer * Handling events * Revisit recorder * Screen Scraping * When to use OCR * Types of OCR available * How to use OCR * Avoiding typical failure points TAME THAT APPLICATION WITH PLUGINS AND EXTENSIONS * Terminal plugin * SAP automation * Java plugin * Citrix automation * Mail plugin * PDF plugin * Web integration * Excel and Word plugins * Credential management Extensions ? Java, Chrome, Firefox, and Silverlight HANDLING USER EVENTS AND ASSISTANT BOTS * What are assistant bots? * Monitoring system event triggers * Monitoring image and element triggers * Launching an assistant bot on a keyboard event EXCEPTION HANDLING, DEBUGGING, AND LOGGING * Exception handling * Common exceptions and ways to handle them * Logging and taking screenshots * Debugging techniques * Collecting crash dumps * Error reporting MANAGING AND MAINTAINING THE CODE * Project organization * Nesting workflows * Reusability of workflows * Commenting techniques * State Machine * When to use Flowcharts, State Machines, or Sequences Using config files and examples of a config file * Integrating a TFS server DEPLOYING AND MAINTAINING THE BOT * Publishing using publish utility * Overview of Orchestration Server * Using Orchestration Server to control bots * Using Orchestration Server to deploy bots * License management * Publishing and managing updates

Budgeting is more than mere vague oversight. Budgeting should deliver the corporate strategy, add shareholder value and lead to a well-run business - for the benefit of all involved in it. Effective budgeting leads to real control - effective day-to-day operational control and more. This course demonstrates what proper budgeting and operational control can do. This course will help ensure that participants: * Appreciate the importance of the budgeting process * Take ownership of it * Use it as a daily working tool - not an annual exercise - to help run their part of the operation * Improve their reporting against budget * Ensure their delivery against budget 1 OBJECTIVES OF BUDGETS * The budget process * Stages - what is the prime aim of a budget? * What is forecasting? * Objectives * Planning * Implementation 2 BUDGET AND COST CONTROL FOCUS * Choosing objectives * Links with corporate strategy * Links with resource management * Can the accounting systems cope? 3 TRADITIONAL BUDGETING AND CONTROL * Benefits and drawbacks * The process * Control and feedback * Reporting - what can be expected? 4 ADVANCED BUDGETING AND CONTROL * Understanding the business process * Taking out costs * Cost awareness * ZBB - as valid as ever 5 REPORTS * Reports for action * The purpose of a report * Content - deliverables and feedback * Culture is so important

The Sales Accelerator programme is a fresh approach to improving business development productivity. It focuses on identifying and using a series of business productivity metrics in order to build a clear action plan for improving sales results - typically within 90 days. The metrics are grouped under three headings: The basic principle is that a small improvement in each area can lead to a significant increase in sales results and productivity. And the object of the programme is to show how best to achieve that. The programme therefore looks at each of these three areas in turn, spending a day on each. Suitable for any and all businesses and all levels of experience and expertise, this is a remarkably practical and hands-on programme. During the workshop, participants discuss, review and apply many proven sales and marketing techniques and personal selling ideas. The goal is to generate and commit to changes and actions that can lead to a 10-30% increase in the next three to six months. There's also a consultancy option, rather than the workshop-based programme. See below for details. DAY ONE - ACTIVITY Key objective This first module introduces the Sales Accelerator model. The goal here is to show participants how to increase their pro-active activity levels by around 10%. It covers all aspects of creating new business opportunities, from existing customers and non-customers alike, and is linked to personal activity improvement goals. Main elements * Improve the productivity, accuracy and effectiveness of your business approach by using new and unique models and techniques. * Different methods of creating and generating new business opportunities in the short, medium and long term. This includes sourcing new business, up-selling, cross-selling, warm calling and gaining referrals. * Using organised persistence to track and build new customer revenue. * Managing your sales time effectively. Key learning points * Sales productivity - understand the dynamics of increasing the combination of activity levels, deal value and conversion rate of proposals/quotations to orders and implement an improvement plan. * Sales goal setting: setting business development objectives for quantity and quality - plus tips and tricks of top performers. * Maintain a peak activity level, on a consistent basis using 'organised persistence' and structured business development tracking methodology. * How to prioritise opportunities and manage your time when sourcing new business. * Identify potential new customers - and particularly the decision-makers and influencers - with greater accuracy. * Make outbound business or appointment calls with improved confidence, control and results. DAY TWO - VALUE Key objective To be able to better anticipate, identify, create, and develop business opportunities using a customer / client-focused communication-based business model and consultative skills. Main elements * How to develop sales more effectively from new and existing customers; and managing the first appointment with a new customer. * Use structured and assertive drawing-out skills to identify, develop and formalise business opportunities and to gain commitment. * How to better position your company and your products and services against your main competitors. * Create and deliver persuasive business messages based on specific need areas, criteria and value. Key learning points * Advanced consultative selling - use a variety of structured and advanced questioning techniques to confidently and efficiently uncover opportunities, need areas and business criteria - confidently and efficiently. * Involve the customer/client at all times, and to a far greater degree, and keep better control of business development process. * Value message - differentiate your solutions clearly and accurately with customer/client-matched value statements. * Presenting the right USPs, features and benefits and making them relevant and real to the customer. Qualification and reading buying signals. DAY THREE (HELD AROUND FOUR WEEKS AFTER THE FIRST MODULE) - CONVERSION Key objective This module looks at how to improve the final qualification, progression and conversion of opportunities in your sales pipeline. Also includes price negotiation, overcoming objections and obstacles to gaining agreement. The module begins with a learning review, sharing participants' experiences over the last four weeks in applying the new techniques and skills acquired during the first two modules. This is an opportunity to revisit particularly challenging areas as well as to share and celebrate successes. Main elements * Structuring and preparing for negotiating a deal and knowing when and how to move into the 'end-game' mode. * Anticipate and answer customer objections and questions more confidently. * Build more credibility and proof into your business process to reduce 'buyer's remorse' and speed-up decision-making. * Being more assertive and developing better instincts and strategic thinking in progressing quotations and proposals. Key learning points * Smart ways to position price, emphasise value and be a strong player without being the cheapest. * Becoming more assertive in closing deals, and the importance of organised follow-up on the telephone. * Qualify pipeline opportunities with more accuracy, using a proven check-list. * Use an 'option generator' to simplify complex proposals, increase business value and close business faster. * Writing more effective sales proposal documents and quotations. * How best to draw-out, understand, isolate and answer customer objections, negotiate points and concerns. * Practical methods of asking for agreement and closing a sale

Develop the commercial awareness, financial knowledge and strategic thinking capabilities, to influence the direction of the business -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COURSE OVERVIEW Duration: 2 days (13 hours) This course is aimed at managers who want to develop their commercial awareness, financial knowledge and strategic thinking capabilities, so that they can influence the direction of their business and deliver to their full potential. Day one of the course provides the skills and insights to make sense of your company’s financial position and performance. Day two helps delegates to consider the strategic thinking tools required to plot the forward course needed to maximise the potential of the business. As well as looking at how to make effective business decisions, this course gives a good grounding in finance and profitability. As a two day programme, day one provides the skills and insights to make sense of the company’s financial position and performance. Day two then considers the strategic thinking tools needed to plot the forward course needed to maximise the potential of the business. OBJECTIVES By the end of the course you will be able to: * An understanding of the balance sheet, profit and loss account, cash flow and statutory and management accounts * Learnt to correctly employment key financial ratios to analyse your business * A practical definition of strategy * analysis tools to examine the current environment and capabilities * Steps to devise a mission and vision statement * Recognition of the skills and resources needed to achieve the vision * Generation of appropriate strategic and tactical commercial objectives CONTENT WHAT IS STRATEGY  * Defining Strategy * Strategic thinking * Strategic models * Commercial thinking – what is money? WHERE ARE WE NOW  * STEEPLE analysis * SWOT Analysis * P&E forces at work * Political distortions in capitalist markets WHERE ARE WE TRYING TO GET TO * Setting the mission and vision * Creating a BHAG * Strategies for deflation and inflation THE ROLE OF BANKS * Commercial and investment banking * Fractional reserving * Securitisation HOW TO GET THERE  * Skill gap analysis * Business Process Re engineering * The role of creativity HOW TO GET THERE  * Getting the team on board * Individual and team motivation * The power of the brand OVERCOMING CHALLENGES  * Debt and deleveraging * Change management CREATING VALUE  * Discounted Cash Flows * Building the business case * Asset Valuation techniques MAKING IT HAPPEN  * Turning Strategic Thinking into Strategic Plans * Scenario planning for an uncertain future * Creating commitments and lock in DISCUSSION AND REVIEW  * Time will be set aside during the course for review sessions with time for questions, answers and action learning.

The fundamental tool to identify waste, create effective process flow, reduce process cycle times, and implement process improvement.