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HR Connections – Mike Timm on Year-End Payroll
Ken Murphy, SAPinsider: Hi this is Ken Murphy with SAPinsider, and welcome to another installment of HR Connections, an SAPinsider HR Connections - Mike Timm on Year-End Payroll series focusing on the current developments and trends in the HR space. Today, I’m pleased to welcome back Mike Timm, founder and Managing Partner of Integrated Consulting Group and an SAP certified consultant. Mike thanks for joining us today.
Mike Timm, Integrated Consulting: Thanks for having me. The timing is really good since we’re ...
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HR Connections – Mike Timm on SAP Payroll Control Center
Mike Timm, Founder and Managing Partner of Integrated Consulting Group, joins SAPinsider for an HR Connections podcast that focuses on SAP Payroll Control Center.
Listen to the HR Connections - Mike Timm on SAP Payroll Control Center, and read the transcript of the conversation here:
Ken Murphy, SAPinsider: Hi, this is Ken Murphy with SAPinsider, and you’re listening to another installment of HR Connections, an SAPinsider podcast series that focuses on the latest developments and trends in the HR space. Today, I’m pleased ...
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10 most critical factors of SAP payroll: Overpayment and claims
We have reached the final post in the 10 most critical factors of SAP payroll series. Overpayments and claims are amounts that SAP Payroll determines to be owed by the employee to the company. Overpayments and claims are generated when master data is changed retroactively and the employee
received too large of an increase in Basic Pay
was on LOA and has benefits deductions due on return
received a bonus in error
Payroll will generate wage type /561 Claim which represents the amount the employee owes the ...
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10 most critical factors of SAP payroll: Year-end processing
Year-end processing encompasses several areas already discussed or will be discussed in the next post of the 10 most critical factors of SP payroll series.
HRSP and CLC
Tax reporter and auditing
Overpayments and claims
The year-end process should not begin in October, but should start immediately after annual tax reporting is complete for the previous year. The initial tasks should be a lessons learned document and business process documentation updates. This documentation will help us to not forget what we just went through in getting the previous ...
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10 most critical factors of SAP payroll: Troubleshooting
In this post we will cover troubleshooting as part of the series 10 most critical factors of SAP payroll. As we have discussed in previous posts in the series, payroll is greatly influenced by and processes the combined data from several sources.
SAP system
HRSPs (HR support packs)
Configuration
Accounting
Cost objects
HR master data
Employee actions
Infotypes
Time Management
Time capture
Time evaluation
Troubleshooting requires a good deal of diligence of keeping track of what is going outside of just payroll. Many of the areas we've previously covered can impact payroll such ...
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10 most critical factors of SAP payroll: Tax reporting and auditing
We have covered 6 of the 10 most critical factors of SAP payroll in this blog post series. The next area we'll cover is Tax reporting and auditing.
Over the years, SAP has developed many payroll reports to make tax reporting and audit simpler process. However, these monthly, quarterly, and annual rituals can consume significant amounts of time and energy from payroll departments depending on the level of understanding of what SAP provides. Hopefully, you are already aware of the following reports you can use ...
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10 most critical factors of SAP payroll: Time management
We have finished five of the 10 most critical factors of SAP payroll and will explore time management in this post. Time Management includes the collection of time-related data, absences and attendances, and may include evaluation of the raw data all within SAP. SAP delivers several Infotypes to collect data with the most common being:
2001 Absences
2002 Attendances
2006 Absence Quotas
2010 Employee Remuneration Info
2013 Quota Correction
0416 Time Quota Compensation
These infotypes may be maintained directly, through the use of Cross-Application Time Sheets (CATS), or ...
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10 most critical factors of SAP payroll: Unit and parallel testing
Unit and parallel testing is the fifth factor in the 10 most critical factors of SAP Payroll. We covered Data integrity, Integration, Configuration and Customization, and HRSP and legal changes in the first four blog posts.
Testing is a building process where we look at individual functionality and see how it fits in the big picture. We can then identify how the process changes when moving from another system or by changes to the SAP system. How do are the differing levels ...
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10 most critical factors of SAP payroll: HRSP and legal changes
This is the fourth of 10 most critical factors of SAP payroll. We covered Data integrity, Integration, and Configuration and Customization in the first three and in this post we will cover Human Resources Support Packages and Country Legal Changes.
Human Resources Support Packages (HRSPs) were put in place by SAP many years ago to reduce the impact of updates towards year-end to HR and HR submodules. HRSPs are released approximately every month and contain individual SAP Notes and other legal and correction updates.
Country Legal ...
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HR2015 Photo Update: Day 2
If you've been keeping up with ICG on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, you'll know that through the rest of the week I'll be attending the HR2015 Conference in Las Vegas.
I have already spoken at my five sessions and was an expert at Ask-the-Experts. I look forward to a more relaxed couple of days at the conference. Check out some pictures from HR2015 Day 2:
Check back later this week for more photos and updates from HR2015. And in the mean time, for more updates about ...
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