eCustoms Payment Screening Application (Tri-University): Phase 2 - U of A and NAU Implementation


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Summary: 

Arizona Tri-Universities will be implementing a restricted party screening system for payments and business processes.

Phase 1 - Completed - Focus on the setup of the eCustoms application server at ASU (Arizona State University) and the processing of files from ASU.

Phase 2 - Focus on processing files sent from U of A (University of Arizona) and NAU (Northern Arizona University) to the eCustoms application server at ASU. 

The Visual Compliance software solutions system performs Restricted Party Screening against all relevant U.S. Government lists, including Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN), under (among others):

  • Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Sanctions
  • Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Denied Persons List
  • Department of Commerce BIS Entity List and Unverified List
  • Department of State Arms Export Control Act Debarred Parties
  • Department of State Designated Terrorist Organizations
  • Department of State Nonproliferation Orders

 

Start Date: 
January 29, 2009
Go Live: 
December 30, 2009
End Date: 
December 30, 2009
Current Milestone: 
December 31, 2009 Automate processing of files.
Stage: 
On track
People
Sponsor/Champion: 
Morgan Olsen, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Project Manager: 
Sharan Johnson
Contact for more information: 
Sharan.Johnson@asu.edu
Associate VP University Technology: 
John Rome
University Technology Director: 
Tina Thorstenson
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Source: 
Executive
Department: 
Business and Finance
Priority: 
Medium
Scope: 

1. Receive files indepentendly from NAU and U of A.

2. Process files indenpendently from NAU and U of A through eCustoms application server at ASU (Arizona State University).

3. eCustoms application independently sends notification (after processing) with detail regarding flagged records to designated NAU email and to designated U of A email.

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All Milestones and Schedule: 

Project Initiation. Completed

Business meeting to discuss data, process/procedures, etc.  Completed.

Technical meeting to discuss file structure, firewalls, etc.  Completed.

Re-baseline Project with U of A and NAU -- Completed

Setup appropriate security/firewalls for receipt of files from U of A.  Completed.

Setup appropriate security/firewalls for receipt of files from NAU. Completed. 

Determine data to be derived from the NAU Advantage system and the U of A financial system.  Completed.

Create U of A email to receive notification once file has been processed.  (U of A Technical Team)Completed 

Create NAU email to receive notification once file has been processed. (NAU Technical Team) - Completed.

Initial configuration of software for U of A. - Completed.

Initial configuration of software for NAU.  - Completed. 

Create test file ("pulled" from U of A) to be used in processing through eCustoms.  (U of A Technical Team) - Completed.

Create test file ("pulled" from NAU) to be used in processing through eCustoms.  (NAU Technical Team) - Completed.

Process initial test file for U of A through eCustoms.  (ASU Technical Team) - Completed.

(Note: eCustoms provided a modification in January that was supposed to allow for separate emails for each University.  When we tried to setup to run a test file, for U of A, we could not configure eCustoms with the addtional emails for each university.)

Process initial test file for NAU through eCustoms.  (ASU Technical Team) - Completed.

Create NAU process and U of A process for handling exceptions from processing.  (NAU and U of A Business Teams) - Pending confirmation. 

Testing - of results from eCustoms processing and exceptions processing.  (NAU and U of A Business Teams) - Pending confirmation. 

Automate file processing.  (ASU TOPS Team) - Milestone to be determined.

Move to Production.  (ASU, NAU, U of A Technical Teams) - Milestone to be be determined. 

Process production files from NAU and U of A.  (ASU Technical Team) - Milestone to be determined.

 

Deliverables: 

1. Files received from NAU and U of A.

2. eCustoms application processing files from NAU and U of A.

3. eCustoms application sending notification (after processing) with detail regarding flagged records to designated NAU email and to designated U of A email.

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