Grants Management

Welcome to Grants Management

Introduction

Grants Management is one of the SIMBA modules: Finance (FI), Controlling (CO), Funds Management (FM), and Grants Management (GM). Grants Management integrates with FI and FM through master data, which, in SIMBA, is an internal catalog of data and information that is used across the entire SIMBA system.

Grants Management is used to:

  • Budget, identify, and record all funding related to sponsored awards.
  • Differentiate between allowable and unallowable costs.
  • Bill and record sponsor amounts.
  • Record and report all costs and revenues (sponsor funds and cost-sharing).
  • Report on Sponsor and University requirements.

 

Explore Grants Management

NOTE: The design and appearance of SIMBA may be different than some of the visual components contained within this training due to system updates.

Watch this short video to better understand Grants Management at Penn State. 

Since Grants Management is not a standalone module and integrates with other SIMBA modules, we recommend you view the following videos to better understand how the modules integrate with each other. 

Finance Links to an external site.

  • Finance Overview Links to an external site. (FIN101) (Video, 22m 56s) This introductory SIMBA Finance course includes key topics such as terminology, an overview of the financial organizational structure in SIMBA, a chart of accounts master data, and integration points between Finance, Controlling, Funds Management, and Grants Management. 
  • Finance Overview Links to an external site. - Word document download (PSU resource)

Reporting

 

Access Grants Management Tiles from the Launchpad

The launchpad is a collection of tiles used to access SIMBA’s business transactions and applications.

Tiles are located on the launchpad and are arranged into groups. Based on the role(s) assigned to end-users, they could have one or more of the following tile groups:

  • GM Master Data Display and Reporting - MD
  • Research Office Grant Administrator – MD
  • GM Master Data Display and Reporting - RPT
  • Various Central Grant Maintainer tile groups

The following video demonstrates how to log in and sign out of SIMBA, and how to navigate the launchpad.

NOTE: You must use Penn State's Virtual Private Network (VPN)  Links to an external site. (PSU resource) to log in to SIMBA.

Click the Next button to proceed.