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The Department Management System (DPMS) launched in 2006, is a FileMaker-based application that streamlines departmental administration.
This empowers department administrators to:
- Ensure data accuracy: Verify and reconcile information across institutional systems.
- Project spending: Forecast expenditures, including salaries and fringe benefits.
- Monitor financial health: Generate financial reports for grants and other funds
Principal Investigatorsn (PI) can request access to the online fund management portal to view their grant expenditure reports.
The system pulls information from Banner Finance and HuskyBuy.
- Fund balance from Banner Finance
- Fund budget from Banner Finance
- EPAFs (Electronic Personnel Action Form) information from Banner HR
- PO (Purchase Order) paid and JE16 (Journal Entry) transactions from Banner Finance
- PO (Purchase Order) information from HuskyBuy
The following are the main functions of the system:
- Manage fund budget and spending
- Project and manage salary and fringe spending by user
- Manage PO (Purchase Order) item information and paid information
- Generate a fund monthly report
- Generate a fund salary & fringe projection report
- Users can submit TA (Travel Authorization Form)
- Manage TAs (Travel Authorization Form) and reimbursements
- Manage pending support, create a summary report and a due-date calendar
- Input student evaluation info and generate report for Oral Medicine/OFP & TMD/Oral Pathology Clinical Practicum (CDSC-9393/CDSC-9493). Instruction
Administrators in the following departments are the primary users of the system.
- BioMedical Engineering
- Craniofacial Sciences
- Oral Health & Diagnostic Sciences
- Reconstructive Sciences
- Research Office
- Cell Biology
- Center for Vascular Biology
- Center for Molecular Oncology
- Genetics and Genome Sciences
- Immunology
- Neuroscience
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- The Cato T. Laurencin Institute
Administrators access the system through FileMaker Pro. Other users access the system through the website within the UConn Health network.
Fund questions, contact
Laura Didden
Business Service Manager
Research Office - School of Dental Medicine
Ph#: 860-679-3891
Email: ldidden@uchc.edu
Other questions, contact
Caibin Zhang
Application Architect
Research Office - School of Dental Medicine
Ph#: 860-679-4498
Email: czhang@uchc.edu