“Payroll Process Powered By SAP HANA”

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But here is an interesting bite for all SAP HR Payroll Consultants.

As you all know payroll processing team usually spends lot of time running payroll and doing correction run if there are any issues. But all that may end soon...

The Payroll Process Powered by HANA:
All SAP HCM Payroll Reports and Transactions, that access Payroll Data through standard techniques, are working automatically with SAP HANA.







Here are some Payroll specific solution in SAP HANA.

Payroll Reporting (Under Consideration)

In order to fully utilize the benefits of HANA, SAP has built functionality to “de-cluster” the time and payroll results. This de-clustering functionality is currently available for China and Austria with the United States planned next.

Reconciliation Reporting - This will leverage SAP’s in memory platform to decrease processing time of reconciliation report, which is one of the most important and commonly used SAP payroll reports. 

Garnishment Order Fulfillment –Will analyze garnishment order fulfillment at the company level and drill down to employee/order level as well as review historical data for employee’s disposable income and analyze employee’s medical benefits. It is important that SAP US Payroll customers review their garnishment configuration along with enabling this report, as I know many customers are not following the updated 2013 American Payroll Association garnishment rules.

Compensation Reporting – Will provide historical trends in compensation based on master data, time data and actual payments stored in the payroll results. This will allow the payroll department to reduce the time needed to identify the errors and inconsistencies.

Overtime Payments – Will offer historical trends in overtime payments by pay period/earnings/taxes/deductions with drill-down functionality to employee level, which includes any master data and time management data stored in payroll results.

Payroll Analytics (Under Consideration)

Payroll Audit - Will compare and analyze payroll results by pay period/earnings/taxes/deductions with drill-down capability to the employee level.  This will be a very popular addition as many of my customers have built a custom report or used a 3^rd Party tool such as spinifexIT (they offer much more) to help with their balancing.

Retroactivity Analyzer – Will analyze retroactive calculations for pay period and compare across the pay periods as well as offer drill down capability to help identify the reason of retro calculation on any level from the tax company to the employee. The retroactive functionality is extremely powerful and valuable part of SAP payroll that is often misunderstood. Any report that helps provide more insights into those calculations will be very popular.

Simulation Analyzer – Will compare the payroll results of a simulation run to the previous pay period’s production runs and analyze the differences on a pay period/earnings/taxes/deductions perspective with drill-down functionality to employee level. There is no doubt this will help payroll department be proactive be more proactive, ensure payroll errors are caught early and reduce the number of claims and retroactive processing that occurs.

Flexible Analyzer - Will analyze and compare payroll results for selected group of employees based on certain master data criteria stored in payroll results.

Here is the plan as per SAP :

Planned: Development closure December 1, 2013
Scheduled: ASUG webcast in December 2013 including alive demo. Please watch for the official announcement!
Planned: General Availability in February 2014