Ellipse 63 Full Course Catalogue 2

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Contents
Chapter 1 Mincom Ellipse General Stream 3
Mincom Ellipse Foundation ............................................................................................................... 4
Mincom Ellipse Functional System Administration ........................................................................... 5
Chapter 2 Mincom Ellipse Finance Stream 7
Mincom Ellipse Financials Familiarisation ......................................................................................... 8
Mincom Ellipse Financial Accounting Tools ...................................................................................... 9
Mincom Ellipse Management Accounting ....................................................................................... 10
Mincom Ellipse Accounts Payable .................................................................................................. 11
Mincom Ellipse Project Control ....................................................................................................... 12
Mincom Ellipse Utilities Asset Accounting ....................................................................................... 13
Mincom Ellipse Fixed Assets........................................................................................................... 14
Mincom Ellipse Plan/Actual Statistics for Accountants ................................................................... 15
Mincom Ellipse Accounts Receivable ............................................................................................. 16
Mincom Ellipse Labour Costing ....................................................................................................... 17
Mincom Ellipse Contracts Management .......................................................................................... 18
Chapter 3 Mincom Ellipse Human Resources Stream 19
Mincom Ellipse Personnel Familiarisation ....................................................................................... 20
Mincom Ellipse Position Management ............................................................................................ 21
Mincom Ellipse Training Management ............................................................................................ 22
Mincom Ellipse Recruitment Management ...................................................................................... 23
Mincom Ellipse Personnel Administration ....................................................................................... 24
Mincom Ellipse Health, Safety, Social Responsibility, and Environment ........................................ 25
Mincom Ellipse Workers Compensation ......................................................................................... 27
Mincom Ellipse Salary Administration ............................................................................................. 28
Chapter 4 Payroll Stream 29
Mincom Ellipse Payroll Familiarisation ............................................................................................ 30
Mincom Ellipse Time Management ................................................................................................. 31
Mincom Ellipse Benefits Administration .......................................................................................... 32
Mincom Ellipse Payroll Configuration .............................................................................................. 33
Mincom Ellipse Payroll Management .............................................................................................. 34
Mincom Ellipse Employee Self-Service ........................................................................................... 35
Chapter 5 Mincom Ellipse Maintenance Stream 37
Mincom Ellipse Maintenance Familiarisation .................................................................................. 38
Mincom Ellipse Core Asset Management ....................................................................................... 39
Mincom Ellipse Core Work Management ........................................................................................ 40
Mincom Ellipse Planning and Scheduling ....................................................................................... 41
Mincom Ellipse Customer Work Management ................................................................................ 42
Mincom Ellipse Equipment Tracing ................................................................................................. 44
Mincom Ellipse Condition Monitoring .............................................................................................. 46
Mincom Ellipse Material Demand Management ............................................................................. 47
Mincom Ellipse Permit to Work ....................................................................................................... 48
Mincom Ellipse Inspections, Defects and Asset Survey ................................................................. 49
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Chapter 6 Materials Stream 51
Mincom Ellipse Materials Familiarisation ........................................................................................ 52
Mincom Ellipse Cataloguing ............................................................................................................ 53
Mincom Ellipse Stores ..................................................................................................................... 54
Mincom Ellipse Warehouse Processes and Requisitions ............................................................... 55
Mincom Ellipse Purchasing Goods and Services Management ..................................................... 56
Mincom Ellipse Disposals Management ......................................................................................... 57
Mincom Ellipse Transport Consolidation ......................................................................................... 58
Mincom Ellipse Forward Purchasing Agreements .......................................................................... 59
Mincom Ellipse Repairable Item Management................................................................................ 60
Mincom Ellipse Global Purchasing Agreements ............................................................................. 61
Mincom Ellipse Advanced Warehousing ......................................................................................... 62
Mincom Ellipse Supply Customer Management ............................................................................. 63
Mincom Ellipse Entitlements ........................................................................................................... 64
Chapter 7 Mincom Ellipse Technical Stream 65
Mincom Ellipse Server Administration ............................................................................................. 66
Chapter 8 Mincom Ellipse Reporting Courses 69
Introduction to Mincom Ellipse Reporting ........................................................................................ 70
Mincom Ellipse Reporting Universe Design .................................................................................... 71
Mincom Ellipse Reporting Administration and Security .................................................................. 72
Chapter 9 Mincom Work Planner Stream 73
Mincom Work Planner Basics ......................................................................................................... 74
Mincom Work Planner Estimate Scheduling ................................................................................... 76
Chapter 10 Link One 77
Mincom LinkOne Basic Publisher ................................................................................................... 78
Mincom LinkOne Advanced Publisher ............................................................................................ 79

Mincom Ellipse General Stream
In This Chapter
Mincom Ellipse Foundation ................................................................................................... 4
Mincom Ellipse Functional System Administration ................................................................ 5

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Mincom Ellipse Foundation

Mincom Ellipse Foundation
Course ID: GE-02, Ellipse 6.3; Stream: General
Course Description: All new Ellipse users will receive an introduction to the system, its integration,
and key concepts. Participants will be able to navigate, search, and review data
within Ellipse and, through practical exercises, explore the integration of Ellipse
across business streams.
Course Length: 1 days
Intended Audience: All new Mincom Ellipse users.
Prerequisites: No Mincom Ellipse knowledge required. ERP systems experience
recommended.
Modules Included:
3001 General
3620 Work Orders
3870 Position Management
3910 J ournals
3140 Stores
3260 Accounts Payable
3901 - J ournal Holding
Objectives: On completion of this course, you will be able to:
Use Mincom Ellipse Online Help (OH)
Identify the Mincom Ellipse business streams
Navigate within Mincom Ellipse
Identify the concepts of system, district, and warehouse controls
Search for and review data in Mincom Ellipse
Maintain diary messages
Identify key Position Management elements
Create a work order
Create a warehouse requisition
Create a purchase requisition
Approve transactions
Run and review Mincom Ellipse Reporting (MER) reports
Outcomes: Identify key concepts of Mincom Ellipse.
Registration: To register an expression of interest in course attendance, email
education.services@mincom.com.


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Mincom Ellipse Functional System Administration

Mincom Ellipse Functional System Administration
Course ID: GE-03, Ellipse 6.3; Stream: General
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Functional System Administration course focuses on the
management and configuration settings of the front end of the Ellipse
application (technical system administration is addressed in the Technical
Training).
Intended Audience: All individuals associated with non-technical system administration,
implementation or consulting.
Prerequisites: Mincom Ellipse Foundation Course. Basic understanding of client-server
architecture. Familiarity with the Ellipse functional streams and basic objects.
Modules Included:
3001 - General

Identify key concepts of Functional System Administration
Describe the use of District, System and Warehouse controls and
associated table files
Maintain Mincom Ellipse tables and associated table codes
Describe the role of the Functional System Administrator
Configure and maintain security profiles and menus
Administer MSO and MSQ security
Set up and review global and program files
Maintain Mincom Ellipse Position Management
Maintain sign-on profiles for employees
Maintain Mincom Ellipse devices
Manage reports
Control reference codes
Archive and restore Mincom Ellipse data from an extracted archive
selection list
Outcomes: Perform Functional System Administration within Mincom Ellipse.

Mincom Ellipse Finance Stream
In This Chapter
Mincom Ellipse Financials Familiarisation ............................................................................. 8
Mincom Ellipse Financial Accounting Tools .......................................................................... 9
Mincom Ellipse Management Accounting ............................................................................. 10
Mincom Ellipse Accounts Payable ........................................................................................ 11
Mincom Ellipse Project Control ............................................................................................. 12
Mincom Ellipse Utilities Asset Accounting ............................................................................. 13
Mincom Ellipse Fixed Assets ................................................................................................. 14
Mincom Ellipse Plan/Actual Statistics for Accountants ......................................................... 15
Mincom Ellipse Accounts Receivable .................................................................................... 16
Mincom Ellipse Labour Costing ............................................................................................. 17
Mincom Ellipse Contracts Management ................................................................................ 18

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Mincom Ellipse Financials Familiarisation

Mincom Ellipse Financials Familiarisation
Course ID: FI-00, Ellipse 6.3; Stream: Finance
Course
Description:
The Mincom Ellipse Finance Familiarisation course provides participants with
conceptual and working knowledge of the financial modules provided by Ellipse.
The course is designed for both employees and supervisors, so that both groups
know who is responsible for what, and what the accounting processes are.
Course Length: 1 day
Intended Audience: Those requiring a high-level understanding of the financials functionality of the
Mincom Ellipse system.
Prerequisites:
GE-02 - Mincom Ellipse Foundation
Modules Included:
3260 - Accounts Payable
3620 - Work Orders
3850 - Labour Costing
3920 - Chart of Accounts

Identify components of the chart of accounts
Describe costing in Ellipse
Describe the integration between Financials and the other Ellipse streams
Outcomes: Identify key concepts of Financials and recognise business stream integration
within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Financial Accounting Tools

Mincom Ellipse Financial Accounting Tools
Course
Description:
The Mincom Ellipse Financial Accounting Tools course provides participants with
conceptual and working knowledge of financial accounting tools provided by
Ellipse. The course is designed for both employees and supervisors, so that both
groups know who is responsible for what, and what the accounting processes
are.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for maintaining a chart of accounts, analysing and
reconciling accounts, or managing the financial accounting function.
Prerequisites:
FI-00 Finance Familiarisation
Modules Included:
3910 - J ournals
3990 - General Ledger
Understand general ledger codes
Understand cost centres and cost centre segments
Understand expense elements
Understand posting accounts
Understand user-defined subledgers
Understand colloquials
Understand basic journals
Understand standing journals
Understand reallocation journals
Understanding transaction reviews
Understand posted accounting transaction amendments
Outcomes: Use Financial Accounting Tools within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Management Accounting

Mincom Ellipse Management Accounting
Course
Description:
Mincom Ellipse offers accountants and managers powerful tools to formulate
budgets, as well as to analyse and interpret financial data. Trainees will maintain
budgets and online review formats. Trainees will also maintain accounts
relationships for account summarisation.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for creating and maintaining operating budgets,
analysing and reporting account balances, or managing the accounting function.
Prerequisites:
FI-00 - Finance Familiarisation
FI-01 - Mincom Ellipse Financial Accounting Tools
Modules Included:
3910 - J ournals
3920 Chart of Accounts
3960 Management
Accounting
3980 Plan/Actual Statistics
3990 - General Ledger
Work with budget types and assumptions
Work with posting accounts and statistics
Work with budget values
Describe account relationships
Perform online enquiries
Work with multiple currencies and translate account balances
Perform month-end and year-end processing
Outcomes: Perform Management Accounting within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Accounts Payable

Mincom Ellipse Accounts Payable
Course
Description:
The Mincom Ellipse Accounts Payable course takes trainees through the full
accounts payable cycle, from processing and approving invoices to processing
payments.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for processing invoices, managing the accounts
payable function.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3001 General
3140 Stores
3201 Supplier Information
3210 Purchasing
3280 Payment Processing
Process and review invoices
Process payment runs
Cancel cheques
Create manual cheques
Carry out accounts-payable reporting functions
Outcomes: Perform accounts payable administration within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Project Control

Mincom Ellipse Project Control
Course
Description:
Mincom Ellipse enables major operational and capital expenditures to be
controlled independently of the normal organisational reporting hierarchy.
Mincom Ellipse Projects support both engineering and accounting requirements.
Actual costs, commitments, and budget amounts are automatically accumulated
up the project hierarchy.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for managing project costs or managing the
physical work related to projects.
Prerequisites:
FI-02 - Mincom Ellipse Management Accounting
Modules Included:
3140 Stores
3210 Purchasing
3620 Work Orders
3660 Project Control
3680 Fixed Assets
3850 Labour Costing
3910 - J ournals
3970 Cost Categories
Create project hierarchies
Create cost categories
Review project costs and commitments
Outcomes: Perform Project Control within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Utilities Asset Accounting

Mincom Ellipse Utilities Asset Accounting
Course
Description:
Mincom Ellipse offers a utilities accounting module that controls a companys
utilities assets and calculates depreciation for those assets. The module
provides facilities to unitise, capitalise, and review the costs of materials, labour,
and equipment charges associated with capital work.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for maintaining utilities assets or managing the
utilities asset function.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3101 Catalogue
3140 Stores
3210 Purchasing
3660 Project Control
3680 Fixed Assets
3850 Labour Costing
3910 - J ournals
3930 Utilities Asset Accounting
3970 Cost Categorisation
Maintain account profiles
Maintain business categories
Maintain property units
Maintain bills of property units (BPU)
Unitise and capitalise BPUs
Maintain the mass and specific assets on the continuous property record
Outcomes: Perform the asset accounting function within Mincom Ellipse for companies
involved in a utilities market.


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Mincom Ellipse Fixed Assets

Mincom Ellipse Fixed Assets
Course
Description:
Mincom Ellipse Fixed Assets functionality provides the tools to control a
companys fixed assets and to calculate depreciation for those assets. Trainees
will maintain the fixed asset register and sub-assets. Trainees will also create
financial transactions related to capitalisation, depreciation, and disposal of
assets.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for maintaining and reconciling fixed assets or
managing the fixed asset function.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3630 Equipment History and Costing
3680 Fixed Assets
3910 - J ournals

Create account profiles
Maintain assets and subassets
Transfer/dispose of subassets
Generate depreciation expense transactions
Outcomes: Maintain and reconcile a fixed-assets register within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Plan/Actual Statistics for
Accountants

Mincom Ellipse Plan/Actual Statistics for Accountants
Course
Description:
The Mincom Ellipse Plan/Actual Statistics for Accountants course provides
participants with the skills to maintain and use operating statistics for financial
reporting.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for processing general-ledger reallocations based
on statistics or managing the budgeting function.
Prerequisites:
FI-02 - Mincom Ellipse Management Accounting
Modules Included:
3980 - Plan/Actual Statistics

Identify plan/actual statistics
Maintain plan/actual statistics
Interpret and use plan/actual statistics
Outcomes: Perform financial reporting using operating statistics within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Accounts Receivable

Mincom Ellipse Accounts Receivable
Course
Description:
The Mincom Ellipse Accounts Receivable course takes participants through the
full accounts receivable cycle, from the creation of the organisations customers
and raising of invoices, through to the receipt and allocation of payments.
Mincom Ellipse Accounts Receivable module manages the detail of money owed
by an organisations customers.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for applying payments to invoices or managing the
accounts receivable function.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3501 - Customer Information
3560 - Accounts Receivable

Maintain customer information
Maintain pricing codes
Manage customer invoicing
Manage customer credit notes
Perform cash receipting
Carry out AR reviews and reporting
Outcomes: Perform accounts receivable administration within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Labour Costing

Mincom Ellipse Labour Costing
Course
Description:
Mincom Ellipse Labour Costing allows the most accurate collection of labour and
labour-burden costs to be captured for projects and work orders. Trainees will:
maintain labour classifications, as well as labour and burden rates.
process labour transactions to projects and work orders for cost
accumulation and analysis.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for processing labour transactions, analysing
project and/or work-order costs, and managing the project costing or work-order
costing function.
Prerequisites:
GE-02 - General Foundation
FI-05 - Mincom Ellipse Project Control
Modules Included:
3620 - Work Orders
3660 - Project Control
3910 - J ournals
3970 - Cost Categories
Create labour classifications
Create labour oncosts
Review labour transactions against projects, work orders, and equipment
Outcomes: Perform labour costing for projects and work orders within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Contracts Management

Mincom Ellipse Contracts Management
Course
Description:
The Mincom Ellipse Contracts Management module is designed to support the
management and administration of works, service, and supply contracts as well
as consultant engagements. Contract types from major construction to minor
works and consulting engagements can be administered through the system.
These contracts can be lump-sum, schedule-of-rates, or a combination of these.
The module consists of online applications to record the contract details, contract
items, variations, and valuations from its creation to its completion.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for processing contracts and contract invoices or
the contract management function.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
338A - Advanced Contract Administration

Invite and record tenders
Evaluate, adjust, and review tenders
Maintain contracts and contract variations
Create a contract valuation
Maintain contract invoices
Outcomes: Manage contracts within Mincom Ellipse.

Mincom Ellipse Human Resources Stream
In This Chapter
Mincom Ellipse Personnel Familiarisation ............................................................................. 20
Mincom Ellipse Position Management .................................................................................. 21
Mincom Ellipse Training Management .................................................................................. 22
Mincom Ellipse Recruitment Management ............................................................................ 23
Mincom Ellipse Personnel Administration ............................................................................. 24
Mincom Ellipse Health, Safety, Social Responsibility, and Environment .............................. 25
Mincom Ellipse Workers Compensation ................................................................................ 27
Mincom Ellipse Salary Administration ................................................................................... 28

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Mincom Ellipse Personnel Familiarisation

Mincom Ellipse Personnel Familiarisation
Course ID: HR-00, Ellipse 6.3; Stream: HR/Payroll
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Personnel Familiarisation course provides participants with
conceptual knowledge of the Mincom Ellipse Human Resources system.
Course Length: 1/2 day
Intended Audience: Implementation team members and new end-users responsible for
management and administration of personnel records, health and safety
records and processes, compensation management and supervision, and
training management.
Prerequisites: GE-02 - Mincom Ellipse Foundation
Modules Included:
3870 - Position Management
3760 - Personnel Administration
3770 - Training Management
3510 - Health, Safety, Social Responsibility, and Environment
3530 - Workers Compensation
3795 - Performance Management
3790 - Resourcing

Discuss the purpose of each key Mincom Ellipse Human Resource module
Describe the Human Resource process from management of positions
through retirement
Explain the integration of Ellipse Human Resource modules and other
streams
Outcomes: Understanding of key concepts and components of the Mincom Ellipse Human
Resources system capabilities.


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Mincom Ellipse Position Management

Mincom Ellipse Position Management
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Position Management course provides participants with
the training to use the Mincom Ellipse Position Management module to
maintain job profiles, primary reporting codes, positions, and hierarchy.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for management and administration of personnel
records or personnel practitioners.
Prerequisites: HR-00 - Mincom Ellipse Personnel Familiarisation
Modules Included:
3870 - Position Management

Create positions
Maintain job evaluation details, context, and objectives
Maintain job details, profiles, duties, and selection criteria
Create job requirement details
Create and review primary reporting codes
Create and modify a hierarchy
Modify position authorities
Maintain position objectives, duties, and costing details
Review position management reports
Outcomes: Perform position management within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Training Management

Mincom Ellipse Training Management
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Training Management course provides participants with the
ability to use the Mincom Ellipse Training Management module to manage
training courses, sessions, training programs, employee training plans, and
attendee details.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for management and administration of training
records.
Prerequisites:
HR-00 - Mincom Ellipse Personnel Familiarisation
Modules Included:

Create and maintain training course, session, and event details
Create and maintain equipment, outcome, and trainer details
Create and maintain training programs and employee training plans
Maintain training course attendee nominations, confirmations, and results
Review the benefits of integrating Training Management with other Ellipse
modules
Outcomes: Manage training courses, sessions, and attendee details within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Recruitment Management

Mincom Ellipse Recruitment Management
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Recruitment Management course provides participants with
the training to use the Mincom Ellipse Recruitment Management module for
recruitment tasks.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for recruitment management and supervision.
Prerequisites: HR-00 - Mincom Ellipse Personnel Familiarisation
Modules Included:
3780 - Recruitment

Create and maintain a position vacancy
Create employee and non-employee applicant details
Create applicant details
Match and appoint applicants
Outcomes: Perform recruitment tasks within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Personnel Administration

Mincom Ellipse Personnel Administration
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Personnel Administration course provides participants with
the training to use the Mincom Ellipse Personnel Administration module for
personnel management, resourcing (competencies), and performance
appraisals.
records and personnel practitioners.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3730 - Resourcing
3820 - Payroll Management
3795 - Performance Appraisal

Create and maintain employee details
Create and maintain non-employee resource details
Maintain personnel details and conduct information
Manage employee status
Create resource classes, type details, and groups
Maintain employee performance appraisal
Review personnel reports
Outcomes: Process and manage the Mincom Ellipse personnel database on a daily basis.


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Mincom Ellipse Health, Safety, Social Responsibility,
and Environment

Mincom Ellipse Health, Safety, Social Responsibility, and
Environment
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Health, Safety, Social Responsibility, and Environment
course provides participants with the training to create and maintain records for
any kind of related event. You can create risk ratings and perform preventative
analyses, and identify immediate and basic causes for events. You can explain
automatic corrective action notification messages, and maintain sign-off details.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for health, safety, social responsibility, and
environment management and supervision.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3510 - Health and Safety
3515 - Event and Budgeting Analysis
3516 - Environment, Social, and Loss Management
3520 - Medical and Rehabilitation Management
3620 - Work Orders


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Configure Health, Safety, Social Responsibility and Environment
Create employees and non-employees
Configure corrective action message rules
Review system and district controls
Review tables files
Explain the Loss Causation model
Create event records
Create the loss information
Create event people details
Create event equipment details
Create event process loss details
Create event environmental impact details
Create event social responsibility details
Create event category details
Create the event investigation history details
Create the medical and rehabilitation details
Create event injury details
Create event medical details
Create event medical test details
Create event rehabilitation plan details
Conduct risk analysis and create reporting dates
Create reporting classification details
Create immediate and basic cause details
Create preventative action details
Explain preventative action notifications
Create event sign-off records
Perform HSSE benchmarking tasks
Outcomes: Manage workplace health, safety, social responsibility, and environment details
within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Workers Compensation

Mincom Ellipse Workers Compensation
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Workers Compensation course provides participants with
the training to use the Mincom Ellipse Workers Compensation module to
manage and administer workers compensation tasks.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for workers compensation management and
supervision.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3530 - Workers Compensation

Identify the relevant terms and processes in the Workers Compensation
module
Configure and maintain workers compensation details
Review claim selection
Maintain recovery types
Review and maintain workers compensation statistics
Outcomes: Manage workers compensation details within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Salary Administration

Mincom Ellipse Salary Administration
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Salary Administration course provides participants with the
training to use the Mincom Ellipse Salary Administration module to perform
salary administration tasks.
records and compensation management and supervision.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3785 - Salary Administration

Identify terms and processes relating to the Salary Administration module
Create and modify employee salary packages
Create and delete employee reimbursements
Load and update employee salary reviews and PRC budgets
Outcomes: Perform salary administration tasks within Mincom Ellipse.

Payroll Stream
In This Chapter
Mincom Ellipse Payroll Familiarisation .................................................................................. 30
Mincom Ellipse Time Management ....................................................................................... 31
Mincom Ellipse Benefits Administration ................................................................................ 32
Mincom Ellipse Payroll Configuration .................................................................................... 33
Mincom Ellipse Payroll Management .................................................................................... 34
Mincom Ellipse Employee Self-Service ................................................................................. 35

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Mincom Ellipse Payroll Familiarisation

Mincom Ellipse Payroll Familiarisation
Course ID: PY-00, Ellipse 6.3; Stream: HR/Payroll
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Payroll Familiarisation course provides participants with
conceptual knowledge of the Ellipse Payroll system, and how it functions as an
integrated system.
Course Length: 1/2 day
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for payroll management and administration of
personnel records, employee timekeeping and rostering, payroll
implementation, and remuneration/benefits management and supervision.
Modules Included:
3880 - Absence Management
3890 - Time Management

Identify the Ellipse Payroll modules required to complete a process
Identify the integration between the Payroll stream and other streams
Identify the purpose of each key Payroll module
Outcomes: Understanding of the key concepts and components of the Mincom Ellipse
Payroll system capabilities.


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Mincom Ellipse Time Management

Mincom Ellipse Time Management
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Time Management course provides participants with the
knowledge to configure and process time and attendance transactions on a
daily basis using the relevant Mincom Ellipse applications.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for payroll management, supervision and
administration, HR/Payroll implementation, or employee timekeeping and
rostering.
Prerequisites: PY-00 - Mincom Ellipse Payroll Familiarisation
Modules Included:

Configure the system controls and table files associated with the Time
Management and Labour Costing modules
Maintain pay group processing schedules and pay run authorisations tables
Create and review roster work codes
Create, modify, and predict roster patterns
Create and review time management controls
Create and review daily award code
Create and maintain pay groups
Create and maintain an employee roster
Process a payroll update
Create and maintain multiple employee timesheet transactions
Create an employee exception transaction
Create and maintain multiple employee leave requests
Maintain employee higher duties
Outcomes: Configure and process time and attendance transactions and review labour
costing using Mincom Ellipse applications.


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Mincom Ellipse Benefits Administration

Mincom Ellipse Benefits Administration
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Benefits Administration course provides participants with
the knowledge to create and maintain benefit types, plans, and programs using
the Mincom Ellipse Benefits Administration module.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for employee benefits administration, employee
benefits management and supervision, HR/Payroll implementation, or Mincom
Ellipse HR business consulting.
Prerequisites:
PY-00 - Mincom Ellipse Payroll Familiarisation
Modules Included:
3845 - Benefits Administration
3801 - Payroll Configuration

Create and maintain benefit types, plans, and programs including plans with
different enrolment categories
Create and maintain an employees benefit plan details, including plan
accumulator details
Maintain health plans, life/disability plans, and section 125 plans
Maintain enrolment information, and maintain an open enrolment period
Generate reports relating to employee benefits and benefit plans
Review the necessary information that must be created and maintained in
the Payroll module in order to run a complete payroll update process
Outcomes: Process and manage benefits for employees on a daily basis within Mincom
Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Payroll Configuration

Mincom Ellipse Payroll Configuration
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Payroll Configuration course provides participants with the
knowledge to formulate rules and configure payroll and absences within
Mincom Ellipse.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for payroll administration, payroll management,
payroll supervision, payroll implementation, Mincom Ellipse HR business
consulting, Human Resources administration, or timekeeping.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3801 - Payroll Configuration
3840 - Higher Duties
3895 - Retrospective Payments
Configure system controls and table files associated with the payroll
modules
Configure earnings and deduction codes, employee terms of employment
rules, and employee pay rate requirements
Understand the rules supporting service and experience payments, higher
duty payments, payslip and message controls, and pay function and
disbursement controls
Create, maintain, and review employees payroll details, including general
payroll details, fixed allowances and deductions, banking details, taxation
details, and rates of pay
Understand the configuration of the Absence Management module,
including leave types and accruals, leave loading, and leave entitlements
that display on payslips
Outcomes: Configure payroll and absences within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Payroll Management

Mincom Ellipse Payroll Management
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Payroll Management course provides participants with the
knowledge to process and manage payroll and absences within Mincom Ellipse.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for payroll administration, payroll management,
payroll supervision, Mincom Ellipse HR business consulting, HR
administration/timekeeping, or HR administration/timekeeping.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3280 - Payment Processing
3840 - Higher Duties
3895 - Retrospective Payments

Transfer employees to different pay groups, awards, and physical locations
Process payroll previews and updates to calculate payments to employees
by cash, cheque, and multiple financial institution accounts
Process payment summaries at the end of each year and produce required
year end reports
Create, maintain, and review employees leave details and history
Outcomes: Process and manage payroll and absences within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Employee Self-Service

Mincom Ellipse Employee Self-Service
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Employee and Manager Self-Service course provides
participants with conceptual and working knowledge of the self-service features
provided by Ellipse. The course is designed for both employees and
supervisors, so that both groups know who is responsible for what, and what
the self-service processes are.
Intended Audience: Employees and supervisors who manage leave, training, and benefits.
Prerequisites:
HR-00 - Personnel Familiarisation
Modules Included:
3845 - Benefits Administration

Maintain Personal Information
Maintain Work Information
Maintain Leave Information
Maintain Timekeeping Information
Maintain Development Information
Review Payroll Information
Maintain Benefits Information
Outcomes: Review and maintain personal, position, leave, training, and payroll information.

Mincom Ellipse Maintenance Stream
In This Chapter
Mincom Ellipse Maintenance Familiarisation ........................................................................ 38
Mincom Ellipse Core Asset Management ............................................................................. 39
Mincom Ellipse Core Work Management .............................................................................. 40
Mincom Ellipse Planning and Scheduling ............................................................................. 41
Mincom Ellipse Customer Work Management ...................................................................... 42
Mincom Ellipse Equipment Tracing ....................................................................................... 44
Mincom Ellipse Condition Monitoring .................................................................................... 46
Mincom Ellipse Material Demand Management .................................................................... 47
Mincom Ellipse Permit to Work ............................................................................................. 48
Mincom Ellipse Inspections, Defects and Asset Survey ....................................................... 49

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Mincom Ellipse Maintenance Familiarisation

Mincom Ellipse Maintenance Familiarisation
Course ID: MN-00, Ellipse 6.3; Stream: Maintenance
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Maintenance Familiarisation course provides participants
with conceptual knowledge of the Mincom Ellipse Maintenance system. This
course is a combination of lecture and demonstrations providing knowledge of
Mincom Ellipse maintenance functionality.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for operations and maintenance of the equipment
register, work management and maintenance consulting, supervision, planning,
asset management, and maintenance engineering.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3130 - Application Parts Lists
3301 - Fluid Management
3340 - Condition Monitoring
3401 - Operating Statistics
3430 - Production Statistics
3540 - Work Requests
3601 - Equipment Register
3605 - Nameplates
3610 - Equipment Group Identifier
3620 - Work Orders
3630 - Equipment History & Costing
3645 - Permit to Work
3650 - Equipment Tracing
3655 - J ob Estimating
3660 - Project Control
3690 - Standard J obs
3695 - J ob Packaging
3701 - Maintenance
Scheduling
3705 - Work Manager
3715 - Material Demand
Management
3720 - Work Groups
Identify the Mincom Ellipse Maintenance modules required to complete a
process
Explain the integration between Maintenance and other streams
Identify the purpose of each key Maintenance module
Outcomes: Understanding of key concepts and components of the Mincom Ellipse
Maintenance system capabilities and preparation for hands-on training.


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Mincom Ellipse Core Asset Management

Mincom Ellipse Core Asset Management
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Core Asset Management course trains participants in the
use of Mincom Ellipse so that they may maximise asset usage by monitoring
asset status and performance, receiving key condition measurements and
recommending the most appropriate maintenance strategies.
register, Work Management consulting, Maintenance consulting, planning,
asset management or Maintenance engineering.
Prerequisites:
MN-00 - Mincom Ellipse Maintenance Familiarisation
Modules Included:
3130 - Application Parts Lists
3605 - Nameplates
3630 - Equipment History and Costing

Create and identify equipment
Identify grouping mechanisms available for equipment
Build a structured numbering system
Build and apply equipment nameplate attributes
Outcomes: Obtain the working knowledge and practical skills to manage assets using
Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Core Work Management

Mincom Ellipse Core Work Management
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Core Work Management course provides participants with
an understanding of the Mincom Ellipse Work Order module and the basic
building blocks involved in the management of maintenance work system.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for operating or maintaining equipment planning,
asset management, maintenance engineering, work management, maintenance
consulting, planning, or scheduling work.
Prerequisites:
MN-00 - Maintenance Familiarisation
MN-01 - Mincom Ellipse Core Asset Management
Modules Included:
3615 - Maintenance Strategy Support System
3620 - Work Orders
3720 - Work Groups
3740 - Daily Planner

Review and select equipment
Raise standalone work orders
Create and maintain standard jobs
Build work order estimated costs through requirements
Create work groups and crews
Utilise maintenance strategy support data in a work order closure
Outcomes: Perform work order management in Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Planning and Scheduling

Mincom Ellipse Planning and Scheduling
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Planning and Scheduling course builds on the Mincom
Ellipse Core Work Management course by bringing together the building blocks
of work management and using them in a full planning and scheduling process.
The course provides participants with an understanding of the Mincom Ellipse
tools used to review planned work from the many triggers in Mincom Ellipse
such as calendar-based maintenance, statistic-based maintenance and
unplanned maintenance. Participants learn how to balance resource
commitments and schedule a final list of work to be accomplished.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for planning or scheduling work, operating or
maintaining equipment, monitoring equipment performance and availability,
asset management, maintenance engineering, work management or
maintenance consulting.
Prerequisites:
MN-02 - Mincom Ellipse Core Work Management
Modules Included:
3001 - General
3620 - Work Orders
3701 - Maintenance Scheduling
3705 - Work Manager
3720 - Work Groups
3740 - Daily Planner
Build routine maintenance schedules
Build schedules based on operating statistics
Schedule planned and unplanned work
Balance work loads between groups
Forecast, commit, and reschedule work
Review committed work
Execute and close work
Outcomes: Perform work management of planned and unplanned work within Mincom
Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Customer Work Management

Mincom Ellipse Customer Work Management
Course Description: Customer work management is a suite of Mincom Ellipse modules that provide
the functionality needed to manage any task, from high volume simple requests
such as a call centre operation, through to complex projects that extend over
many years and cost many millions of dollars. The Mincom Ellipse Customer
Work Management course provides participants with an understanding of the
capabilities of the compatible unit and estimating facilities, and the efficiency of
the work packaging functions.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for planning and optimising high volume tasks,
building and managing projects, work management and maintenance
consulting, asset management, or maintenance engineering.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3540 - Work Requests
3620 - Work Orders
3625 - J ob Dispatch
3629 - Notifications
3635 - Compatible Units
3655 - J ob Estimating
3695 - J ob Packaging


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Create and review locations, requestors, and work requests
Create simple and hierarchical compatible units
Add and delete items from a compatible unit
Include existing compatible units into a compatible unit hierarchy
Review compatible units
Create a standard job estimate
Modify and delete a job estimate
Create job estimates from work orders and standard jobs
Develop a job estimate hierarchy
Include a compatible unit into a job estimate
Change the status of a job estimate
Review job estimates
Create job packages
Review job packages
Create job dispatches
Schedule work orders for job dispatch
Review job dispatches
Outcomes: Perform customer work management within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Equipment Tracing

Mincom Ellipse Equipment Tracing
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Equipment Tracing module traces equipment items through
their life-cycle of purchase, fitment, defittment, rebuild, and repair. In the
Mincom Ellipse Equipment Tracing course, participants learn how to build
equipment profiles, understand the process of fitting, defitting, and rebuilding
traceable items of equipment, and review the history of these actions.
Integration with the Equipment Register and Operating Statistics modules is
also reviewed as the full impact of tracing equipment is explored. The
Equipment History and Costing module will be introduced by displaying history
of equipment both in relation to Equipment Tracing and other maintenance
activities.
register, work management, maintenance consulting, planning, asset
management, or maintenance engineering.
Prerequisites:
MN-03 - Mincom Ellipse Planning and Scheduling
Modules Included:
3001 - General
3610 - Equipment Group Identifiers
3620 - Work Order
3630 - Equipment History and Costing


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Configure equipment to be traced
Create EGI/equipment profiles
Trace equipment through fitment, defitment, rebuilding, and repairing (in-
situ/off site)
Review equipment tracing history and costs
Module provides ability to trace equipment through lifecycle of purchase,
fitment, defitment, rebuild and repair
Captures all action taken against an equipment
Accumulates equipment operating statistics, to ensure MSTs are performed
as required
Efficiently manage and track rotable stock
Outcomes: Trace equipment life-cycles within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Condition Monitoring

Mincom Ellipse Condition Monitoring
Course Description: The practice of condition-based monitoring and maintenance can be an
invaluable tool in improving maintenance efficiency, safety and equipment use.
The Mincom Ellipse Condition Monitoring course assists users in understanding
Mincom Ellipses ability to maintain equipment condition measurements and
alert personnel when pre-defined condition criteria have been met. The ability to
monitor fluid expected and actual usages will also be discussed, as a piece of
equipments performance can be directly monitored based on its usage of
consumable products.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for equipment life-cycle analysis, preventative
maintenance programs, work management and maintenance consulting,
planning, asset management, and maintenance engineering.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3301 - Fluid Management
3340 - Condition Monitoring

Build condition monitoring sets
Record condition measurements
Build standard work templates for condition based maintenance
Build fluid usage profiles for equipment
Recording and analysis of equipment condition
Prevention of equipment failure
Initiation of work orders based upon pre-set alarms
Prediction of equipment failure
Outcomes: Perform condition-based monitoring within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Material Demand Management

Mincom Ellipse Material Demand Management
Course Description: Efficient material availability for work is a key performance indicator in
most asset intensive industries. The Mincom Ellipse Material Demand
Management course provides participants with the knowledge to use
the Material Demand Management tool for the analysis of material
required for planned and scheduled tasks without needing to raise
requisitions. It is used for work where the future workload can be
accurately planned and where past material usage is not a reliable
indicator of future demand.
Intended Audience: Buyers, procurement officers, and individuals responsible for planning
and scheduling work.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3620 - Work Orders
3715 - Material Demand Management

Create, Maintain & Review Material Planning Groups
Maintain & Review Work Groups for a Material Planning Group
Maintain & Review Warehouses for a Material Planning Group
Delete Material Planning Groups
Create, Maintain, Review & Delete Material Planning Group Run
Parameters
Generate Reports
Outcomes: Perform Material Demand Management within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Permit to Work

Mincom Ellipse Permit to Work
Course Description: A critical component of maintenance activities, the Permit to Work module helps
you to manage plant and equipment isolations. Asset maintenance activities
require that the plant is fully isolated and safe before work commences The
Mincom Ellipse Permit to Work course provides participants with an
understanding of the permit functionality including officer in charge, isolation
guides and sheets, and standard steps and blocks. The course will also
reinforce previous work management topics by reviewing the Mincom Ellipse
work order tools.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for applying for permits to work, creating and
maintaining permits to work, and planning and scheduling permits to work.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3645 - Permit to Work
3620 - Work Orders

Set up permit to work
Create and maintain applications for a permit to work
Create and maintain permits to work
Create and maintain isolation sheets
Create and maintain isolation guides and standard steps
Outcomes: Apply for, create, maintain, plan, and schedule permits to work within Mincom
Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Inspections, Defects and Asset
Survey

Ellipse Inspections, Defects and Asset Survey
Course ID: MN-11
Course Description: This course provides the participants with an understanding of the function and
use of Inspections, Defects and Asset surveys applications of Work Planner.
Intended Audience: Asset Managers involved with the inspections of Assets.
Prerequisites:
MWP-01 - Mincom Work Planner Basics
Modules Included:
Mincom Work Planner

Determine the Template Strategy
Maintain Attributes
Link Attributes to Entities
Manage Activity Scripts
Manage Audit Scripts
Maintain Activity Templates
Perform Activities in the Field
Perform Activities Online
Maintain Alarms and Defects Manager
Maintain Survey Manager
Outcomes: Ability to create and maintain inspections and audits for assets and perform
related activities online and in the field. Ability to maintain alarms, defects, and
survey results in Mincom Work Planner.

Materials Stream
In This Chapter
Mincom Ellipse Materials Familiarisation .............................................................................. 52
Mincom Ellipse Cataloguing .................................................................................................. 53
Mincom Ellipse Stores ........................................................................................................... 54
Mincom Ellipse Warehouse Processes and Requisitions ..................................................... 55
Mincom Ellipse Purchasing Goods and Services Management............................................ 56
Mincom Ellipse Disposals Management ................................................................................ 57
Mincom Ellipse Transport Consolidation ............................................................................... 58
Mincom Ellipse Forward Purchasing Agreements ................................................................ 59
Mincom Ellipse Repairable Item Management ...................................................................... 60
Mincom Ellipse Global Purchasing Agreements ................................................................... 61
Mincom Ellipse Advanced Warehousing ............................................................................... 62
Mincom Ellipse Supply Customer Management ................................................................... 63
Mincom Ellipse Entitlements ................................................................................................. 64

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Mincom Ellipse Materials Familiarisation

Mincom Ellipse Materials Familiarisation
Course ID: ML-00, Ellipse 6.3; Stream: Materials
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Materials Familiarisation course provides participants with
conceptual knowledge of the Mincom Ellipse Materials system.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for implementation and supply-specific activities.
Modules Included:
3001 - General
3101 - Catalogue
3120 - Inventory Tracking
3140 - Stores
3190 - Warehouse Management
3201 - Supplier Information
3210 - Purchasing

Identify the Mincom Ellipse materials modules required to complete a
process
Explain the integration between the materials stream and the other streams
Identify the purpose of each key materials module
Outcomes: Understanding of key concepts and components of the Mincom Ellipse
Materials system capabilities and preparation for hands-on training.


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Mincom Ellipse Cataloguing

Mincom Ellipse Cataloguing
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Cataloguing Course provides participants with an
understanding of the Mincom Ellipse functionality for creating, modifying and
maintaining catalogue records. This module allows users to add an item of
material (inventory or stock item) to a globally maintained supply catalogue
and maintain the item of material.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for cataloguing items or materials consulting.
Prerequisites:
ML-00 - Materials Familiarisation
Modules Included:
3001 - General
3101 - Catalogue
3140 - Stores

Use group classes and item name codes
Create and maintain catalogued items
Process item merges
Change an item's units of measure
Archive catalogued items
Search and review stock codes
Outcomes: Perform catalogue functions within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Stores

Mincom Ellipse Stores
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Stores Inventory Management course provides participants
with knowledge of Mincom Ellipse functionality for maintaining inventory,
warehouse attributes, lead times and ROP/ROQ forecasts.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for managing inventory control.
Prerequisites:
ML-01 - Mincom Ellipse Cataloguing
Modules Included:
3001 - General
3101 - Cataloguing
3140 - Stores
3210 - Purchasing

Load stock codes into inventory using the Long and Short Form Loads
Maintain consignment stock
Process recommended orders
Perform a random stock take
Manage inventory updates
Outcomes: Manage stores inventory within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Warehouse Processes and
Requisitions

Mincom Ellipse Warehouse Processes and Requisitions
Course Description: The Ellipse Warehouse Processes and Requisitions course provides
participants with knowledge of Mincom Ellipse functionality for processing
warehouse transactions and customer transactions.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for warehouse management.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3001 - General
3101 - Catalogue
3140 - Stores (Warehouse and Customer portions)
3210 - Purchasing
3245 - Discrepancy Reporting

Create and modify requisitions
Issue requisitions
Receive goods
Return items to stock and to a supplier
Perform warehouse transfers
Maintain bin locations
Perform general warehouse reviews
Generate warehouse reports
Outcomes: Manage Warehouse Processes and Requisitions in Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Purchasing Goods and Services
Management

Mincom Ellipse Purchasing Goods and Services Management
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Purchasing Goods and Services Management course
provides participants with the training to create and manage supplier records,
work with catalogued and direct charge purchasing, receive services, and
manage discrepancies.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for purchasing, maintaining the supplier record,
managing receipt discrepancies, materials consulting or business partners.
Prerequisites:
GE-02 - Mincom Ellipse Cataloguing
Modules Included:
3101 - Catalogue
3140 - Stores
3201 - Supplier Information
3210 - Purchasing
3245 - Discrepancy Reporting

Identify the supplier, purchasing, and discrepancy report modules
Create a new supplier
Create and modify direct charge purchase requisitions/purchase orders
Create and modify catalogue item purchase requisitions/purchase orders
Outcomes: Obtain the working knowledge and practical skills to manage goods and
services using Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Disposals Management

Mincom Ellipse Disposals Management
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Disposals Management course provides participants with
an understanding of Mincom Ellipse functionality for identifying disposal
candidates using multiple parameters.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for purchasing, inventory control or maintaining
disposal items.
Prerequisites:
ML-03 - Mincom Ellipse Warehouse Process and Requisitioning
Modules Included:
3001 - General
3101 - Catalogue
3140 - Stores
3360 - Disposals

Create disposal lists
Transfer bulk disposal lists
Create survey lists
Sentence survey items
Issue sentenced items
Outcomes: Perform Disposal Management within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Transport Consolidation

Mincom Ellipse Transport Consolidation
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Transport Consolidation course provides participants with
an understanding of Ellipse functionality for operation of offsite receiving.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for operating offsite receiving and transportation.
Prerequisites:
ML-03 - Mincom Ellipse Warehouse Processes and Requisitioning
Modules Included:
3001 - General
3101 - Catalogue
3140 - Stores
3155 - Transport Consolidation

Maintain locations
Manage waybills and manifests
Manage containers and trips
Receive waybills and containers
Describe the processes used to track stock in transit
Outcomes: Perform Transport Consolidation Management within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Forward Purchasing Agreements

Mincom Ellipse Forward Purchasing Agreements
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Forward Purchasing Agreements (FPAs) course provides
participants with an understanding of Mincom Ellipse functionality for creating,
evaluating and selecting quotations for both stock and non-stock items.
Trainees will also review relevant standard reports, and run batch programs to
generate FPA data.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for creating and managing Forward Purchasing
Agreements or purchasing from a Forward Purchasing Agreement.
Prerequisites:
ML-04 - Mincom Ellipse Goods and Services Management
Modules Included:
3001 - General
3101 - Catalogue
3140 - Stores
3210 - Purchasing
3250 - Forward Purchase Agreements

Prepare forward purchasing agreements (FPAs)
Evaluate and select FPA suppliers
Maintain FPAs
Create direct charge quotes
Outcomes: Perform Forward Purchasing Agreements Management within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Repairable Item Management

Mincom Ellipse Repairable Item Management
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Repairable Item Management course provides participants
with the training to manage Repairable Stock Items and associated Repair
Agreements, tasks, purchase orders, and item life cycles.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for purchasing, maintaining repairable item
agreements or managing repair requests.
Prerequisites:
ML-08 - Mincom Ellipse Forward Purchasing Agreements
Modules Included:
3001 - General
3101 - Catalogue
3140 - Stores
3210 - Purchasing
3390 - Repairable Item Management

Maintain repairable stock items
Create and monitor repair agreements
Create and monitor repair requests and linked tasks/sub-tasks
Explain the matching process used in RIM
Create requisitions that initiate repairs
Outcomes: Manage repairable stock items and their repair agreements using Mincom
Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Global Purchasing Agreements

Mincom Ellipse Global Purchasing Agreements
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Global Purchasing Course provides participants with the
training to prepare Global Requests for Quotes, transmit RFQs to suppliers,
enter supplier offers, evaluate offers, and create agreements based on
successful offers.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for preparing Requests for Quotations, receiving
and evaluating Supplier Offers or purchasing Contract Management.
Prerequisites:
ML-04 - Mincom Ellipse Goods and Services Management
ML-08 - Mincom Ellipse Forward Purchasing Agreements
Modules Included:
3101 - Catalogue
3255 - Global Purchasing Agreements

Maintain location hierarchies
Maintain requests for quotes (RFQs)
Maintain/evaluate supplier offers
Maintain global agreements
Differentiate between global purchasing and "normal" Mincom Ellipse
purchasing
Outcomes: Obtain the working knowledge and practical skills to create and manage Global
Purchasing Agreements using Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Advanced Warehousing

Mincom Ellipse Advanced Warehousing
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Advanced Warehousing course provides participants with
an understanding of Mincom Ellipse functionality for warehouse management.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for Warehouse Management.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3001 - General
3101 - Catalogue
3140 - Stores
3210 - Purchasing

Maintain inventory categories
Maintain storage types
Maintain consolidation of picking slips
Maintain batch lot/shelf life items
Track inventory
Review stock movement
Outcomes: Perform Supply Customer Account control in Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Supply Customer Management

Mincom Ellipse Supply Customer Management
Course Description: The inventory tracking module is used to track inventory items - whether they
are in storage, in transit or have been issued. The Mincom Ellipse Inventory
Tracking course provides participants with an understanding of Mincom Ellipse
functionality for supply customer management.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for tracking inventory as part of the supply
customer management system.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3001 - General
3140 - Stores

Create supply customers
Limit stock usage on selected stock items
Set limits on stock items
Requisition using a supply customer
Receive and transfer supply customer orders
Suspend supply customers
Take stock of supply customer stock items
Transfer stock between supply customers
Outcomes: Manage supply customers within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Entitlements

Mincom Ellipse Entitlements
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Entitlements course provides participants with an
understanding of Ellipse functionality for conducting warehouse operations,
including tracking inventory. The entitlements module allows users to control
the issue of stock items by setting a maximum issue level to be held or used by
a supply customer account, employee or inventory category.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for warehouse management.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
3001 - General
3101 - Catalogue
3140 - Stores
3370 - Entitlements

Apply entitlement checking to stock items
Create entitlements group codes
Create entitlements
Build an entitlement hierarchy
Apply entitlements to supply customers and employees
Outcomes: Conduct Warehouse Operations and Inventory Tracking within Mincom Ellipse.

Mincom Ellipse Technical Stream
In This Chapter
Mincom Ellipse Server Administration ................................................................................... 66

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Mincom Ellipse Server Administration

Mincom Ellipse Server Administration
Course ID: TE-01, Ellipse 6.3; Stream: Technical
Course Description: Training IT professionals to reduce business costs.
How will this course benefit you?
While business focuses on managing costs, growth, and risk, IT is focused on
implementing the enterprise asset management software to support your
business operations.
This class gives IP professionals the skills to:
Maintain Ellipse instances
Compile Ellipse products as source
Configure the transaction processor, RDBMS, and batch processing
Describe the Ellipse Deployment Model
The course also provides problem determination scenarios and their potential
solutions
Intended Audience: Technical consultants and systems administrators responsible for managing the
Ellipse server configuration.
Prerequisites: Participants will need a technical understanding of enterprise software systems,
databases and operating systems.
Modules Included:
Ellipse technical and Ellipse Application Console


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Ellipse deployment environment
Basic operating system configuration
Instance creation and definition
Transaction processor configuration
Database configuration
Batch processing configuration
Client interface configuration
Post installation verification process
Ellipse source configuration
Ellipse server application source administration
Instance administration
CICS and Tuxedo administration
Database administration
Batch processing administration
Ellipse server application change control
Administer the Ellipse Application Source
Demonstrate how to administer a CICS region and Ellipse instance
Configure a database, start and stop the database, and configure database
network settings
Configure batch processing
Outcomes: Understand the Ellipse deployment model. Configure EAC and Ellipse. Create
Ellipse instances. Perform basic compilation of Ellipse source.

Mincom Ellipse Reporting Courses
In This Chapter
Introduction to Mincom Ellipse Reporting .............................................................................. 70
Mincom Ellipse Reporting Universe Design .......................................................................... 71
Mincom Ellipse Reporting Administration and Security ......................................................... 72

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Introduction to Mincom Ellipse Reporting

Introduction to Mincom Ellipse Reporting
Course ID: MER-01, Ellipse 6.3; Stream: Mincom Ellipse Reporting
Course Description: The Introduction to Mincom Ellipse Reporting course provides functional and
technical participants with the knowledge to create, analyse, and manage
reports using the Mincom designed universes and universe report templates.
The user will gain specific knowledge on how to build Web Intelligence
documents (reports) by following recommended guidelines.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for creating, analysing, or managing reports.
Prerequisites: Understanding of Mincom Ellipse applications.
Modules Included:
Mincom Ellipse Reporting

Access InfoView and Web Intelligence
Viewing documents in InfoView
Create new documents with queries objects
Restrict data returned by a query (filters)
Display information in different ways
Enhance the presentation of a report
Format reports
Create formulas and variables
Analyse data at varying levels of detail by drilling
Share documents
Identify Internationalisation report headings, labels and prompts
Create a report from the universe template
Identify the workshop specifications for building a Mincom Ellipse Web
Intelligence Report
Format documents/ reports to a style guide specifications
Build a Web Intelligence document from a Mincom supplied template
Outcomes: Perform Report Management within Mincom Ellipse Reporting.


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Mincom Ellipse Reporting Universe Design

Mincom Ellipse Reporting Universe Design
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Reporting Universe Design course provides functional
and technical participants the knowledge to manage and maintain the
Business Objects Designer module. The course will introduce participants to
the principles and methods of maintaining Mincom supplied universes using
the designer module.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for maintaining reports, managing reports,
maintaining universes, managing universes, or system administration.
Prerequisites: MER-01: Introduction to Mincom Ellipse Reporting
Modules Included:

Identify the Mincom supplied universes
Identify the Mincom universe customisation procedure
Use the designer module
Modify universe parameters
Add tables to the universe structure
Outcomes: Administer Universes within Mincom Ellipse.


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Mincom Ellipse Reporting Administration and
Security

Mincom Ellipse Reporting Administration and Security
Course Description: The Mincom Ellipse Reporting Administration and Security course provides
functional and technical participants with the knowledge and skills to deploy
Business Objects modules to users using the Business Objects Central
Management Console and perform a functional system administration role.
The course provides participants with the knowledge to administer the Mincom
Ellipse Reporting security requirements using the CMCe.
Intended Audience: Those individuals responsible for maintaining reports, managing reports,
maintaining universes, managing universes, or system administration.
Prerequisites: MER-01 Introduction to Mincom Ellipse Reporting
Modules Included:

Maintain a Business Objects repository
Maintain groups, users and global profiles
Use the profile load tool
Apply command restrictions and predefined settings to profiles
Manage a monolithic repository architecture
Allocate and manage universe and documents
Maintain database connections
Configure Mincom supplied universes
Maintain Mincom Ellipse Reporting integrated security
Outcomes: Deploy and administer Business Objects Modules within Mincom Ellipse.

Mincom Work Planner Stream
In This Chapter
Mincom Work Planner Basics ............................................................................................... 74
Mincom Work Planner Estimate Scheduling ......................................................................... 76

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Mincom Work Planner Basics

Mincom Work Planner Basics
Course ID: MWP-01
use of the J obs and Task portlets of Work Planner and J ob Linking.
Intended Audience: Maintenance Work Planners and Schedulers involved with the managing,
planning and scheduling of diverse work schedules and required resources.
Prerequisites:
Modules Included:
Mincom Work Planner


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Login/Logout to Work Planner portal and the individual portlets
Navigate through Mincom Work Planner
Search, filter, sort and export data within the J obs portlet
Create, save and use a User-defined Search and Filter preference setting in
J obs portlet
Display, Review, Edit, and Print Work Orders
Use the Administration portlet to schedule and commit a Work Group
Display, Review, Edit, and Manage Maintenance Scheduling Task
Instances (MSTIs)
Create Work Orders from MSTIs
Display the schedule of Work Orders, Work Order Tasks, and MSTIs in a
graphical view
Review and adjust the task schedule using the graphical view
Use Work Planner to plan, schedule and assign work
Search, review and edit Work Order Tasks
Understand the concepts of J ob Linking, Link Types, Lag and Lead
controls, and, Offsets
Use the Link function in Work Planner
Use Work Planner to dynamically review resource availability for an work
period
Use Work Planner to dynamically reschedule and manage diverse work
schedules
Use Work Planner to dynamically reschedule and manage resources
Review and Report Resource Work Schedules
Outcomes: Ability to plan, schedule and assign work using Mincom Work Planner.


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Mincom Work Planner Estimate Scheduling

Mincom Work Planner Estimate Scheduling
Course ID: MWP-02
use of the Estimate Scheduling application of Work Planner.
Intended Audience: Maintenance Work Planners and Schedulers involved with the managing,
planning and scheduling of diverse work schedules and required resources.
Prerequisites:
MN-04 - Customer Work Management
MWP-01 - Mincom Work Planner Basics
Modules Included:
Mincom Work Planner

Search for Estimate Scheduling
Maintain Estimate Scheduling
Update Estimate Scheduling
Print Estimate Scheduling data
Export Estimate Scheduling data to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
Package J obs
Maintain Resources
Outcomes: Ability to maintain estimate scheduling using Mincom Work Planner.

Link One
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Mincom LinkOne Advanced Publisher .................................................................................. 79

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Mincom LinkOne Basic Publisher

Mincom LinkOne Basic Publisher
Course ID: LN-01
Course Description: The aim of this training course is to provide trainees with the required level of
LinkOne Publishing knowledge to enable them to build LinkOne Parts and
Maintenance Manuals of a basic level, while still incorporating book structure
and simple formats.
Intended Audience: Operations and maintenance engineers and technical writers for equipment.
Prerequisites: None.
Modules Included: None.
Analyse network infrastructure and system requirements
Define the LinkOne publishing process and applications
Define directory structures used in LinkOne
Define the importance of file naming conventions
Define LinkOne Source Data
Preparation of Book.inf contents
Preparation of book pages, including parts, documents and pictures
Perform the Book Building Process
Outcomes: Students will be able to create and publish a basic LinkOne book.


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Mincom LinkOne Advanced Publisher

Mincom LinkOne Advanced Publisher
Course ID: LN-02
Course Description: This course provides trainees further knowledge of the functions of LinkOne,
including overlays, options, formats and searches.
Intended Audience: Operations and maintenance engineers and technical writers for equipment.
Prerequisites: None.
Modules Included:
LinkOne Viewer

Advantages of different book methodologies
Adding user-defined fields to a LinkOne book
Use of attributes
Creation of overlays
Creation of a search definition file
Creation of layout files with a number of formats
Applying different formats to different areas in the book
Creation of options and applying them to the separate components
Applying a search definition file and adding the search set
Applying LinkOne links to HTML for links within a book
Installation of DB Man and setting up necessary files
Outcomes: Obtain the working knowledge of LinkOne Viewer functions including how to
and concepts.

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