Common Management Systems

Welcome to the Common Management Systems (CMS) web site.

The CMS Project involves all 23 California State University (CSU) campuses and the implementation of PeopleSoft Human Resources, Financials and Student Administration (Campus Solutions) software.

In 1997 the Chancellor's Office initiated the Common Management Systems effort to consolidate the management systems of the CSU system and to identify one software package that would effectively support its Human Resources, Financial and Student systems. Several software solutions were reviewed and this process resulted in the selection of PeopleSoft.

All CMS PeopleSoft applications are managed and maintained by a central enterprise development group, SOSS (Software Operations and Support Services). This group develops and customizes the PeopleSoft applications to produce the CSU baseline version that is used by each campus for each of the applications. The software is run at a Unisys central data center facility in Salt Lake City.

Sacramento State went live with:

Human Resources starting April 2003 (Base Benefits, Hiring, Labor Cost Distribution, Position Management, Temporary Faculty Hiring),
Finance was implemented in 2003 and then upgraded to version 8.4 in November 2004 (General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Accounts Receivable/Billing and Asset Management),
ePay, eBenefits and eProfile in July 2005,
Upgraded HR to version 8.9 and implemented 'My Sac State' in May 2006.
Student Administration was implemented using a phased approach by Fall 2007