Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education SAP Implementation History

The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) has iplemented a Shared Administrative System utilizing SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products for data processing) to support the 14 universities and the Dixon Center. The shared system consists of a payroll system, a financial system, and a new campus management system and will replace all of these systems at the 14 universities.

This is a multi-year project stemming from a 1999 recommendation by the GartnerGroup for all 14 universities and Dixon Center to share a single administrative computer system.  Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Kutztown, and Shippensburg Universities, as well as the Office of the Chancellor and the Educational Resources Group, have been operational on the system since November 2002.  In December 2003, Bloomsburg, California, Lock Haven, Mansfield, and Slippery Rock Universities began processing transactions through the Finance and Materials Management modules.

To implement this system, PASSHE has created SyTEC.  SyTEC is the acronym assigned to the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's System Technology Consortium. SyTEC is a consortium of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education as created by action of the Board of Governors at a public meeting held March 22, 2001, as per its authority to create consortia under Act 188 of 1982, 24 P.S. §§20-2001A, et seq. The consortium will operate at the direction of the Chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.

The mission and purpose of the consortium shall be to carry out and execute the policies of the Board of Governors as set forth in Agenda Action Item #1, as adopted on March 22, 2001, and such other policies and actions of the Board which shall be enacted from time-to-time and tasked to the Consortium by direction of the Board of Governors or the Chancellor.  SyTEC is charged with creating a shared administrative system that will allow the universities to share data, work within the same platform for certain administrative functions, such as procurement and campus management, and realize a more substantial cost savings than if each university developed its own administrative system.