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The Commerce Administrative Management System (CAMS) is the financial and administrative system that will be implemented at nearly all Department of Commerce bureaus. The goal of the CAMS implementation is to modernize and integrate financial and administrative management systems, streamline related business processes, and provide managers with standardized, accurate, and timely information to manage their resources while reducing administrative costs.

CAMS serves as the umbrella for the financial and administrative functions, consisting of the Core Financial System (CFS) as well as feeder systems and interfaces.  CFS provides financial management and accounting services and consists of the following modules: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Budget Execution, Cost Allocation, Reimbursable (Cost Management), Reporting and Workflow Management.

Program Management Plan: Document outlining current communication, systems planning, and decision-making strategies relevant to NIST business systems.

CAMS Education Materials: Overview documentation addressing various CAMS-related topics of interest.

CAMS Forms: CAMS Training: Training Strategy for the Phase III CAMS implementation effort.

Production Support FAQs: List of FAQs for production support (e.g., CFS Modules, Data Warehouse, Bankcard, etc.)

General FAQs: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions from CAMS stakeholders.

Meeting Notes/Presentations: Notes and presentations from CAMS and/or finance related meetings.

Bankcard (CPCS) Procedures: Detailed user documentation for the Approving Official and Cardholder outlining steps for executing processes within the Commerce Purchase Card System (CPCS).

Data Warehouse Procedures: Detailed procedures for Data Warehouse users. The Data Warehouse enables users to interactively query and analyze CFS budget and expenditure data.

Travel:   Contains materials (i.e. user guides, forms, etc.) related to the Travel function 

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CAMSHELP: Communicate with CAMS Implementation Team to provide comments, ask questions, etc.







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