General System News - Page 21

SMART will be upgrading its PeopleTools version from 8.56.20 to 8.56.22 this Saturday June 6th.

INFORMATIONAL CIRCULAR NO. 20-A-01X

Agency partners: In consideration of the phased-in plan to reopen the State released from Governor Kelly, we would like to provide some modifications to the functions of the State Treasurer’s Office (STO) we will continue to provide.

The Vendor Payment Self Service (VPSS) webpage will be inactivated May 1, 2020 and will no longer be available to users.

On Friday, April 17, 2020 the INF06-Import Journals did not run in nightly batch.

Please see the attached memo from the Director of Accounts and Reports.

Legislative Post Audit (LPA) has requested that agencies be notified that LPA plans to send the audit data collection document, originally scheduled for mid-March, in mid-April.

The SMART system will be fully staffed, and agencies may resume processing all non-essential transactions beginning Monday, April 6.

The Governor and Secretary of Administration have requested that all transactions related to the COVID-19 outbreak be tracked in SMART for ease of reporting.

As a reminder to agencies, only essential transactions should be processed in SMART while state offices are closed in response to COVID-19.