Employee Central Payroll H1 2023 , release provides exciting innovations across SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll H1 2023 that can help you transform your HR operations, increase employee engagement, and deliver results.
Don’t miss out on all the great innovations and enhancements. Here are a few key updates you should consider for SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll H1 2023.
H1 – 2023 Release Schedule
- Preview Release – April 28, 2023
- Production Release – June 02, 2023
1. Enhanced Application Log for Push Replication (SLG1)
The application log now contains data about push replication.
Push replication happens immediately and is useful for job events like hire, rehire, and termination. It is now possible to analyze technical errors, for example, missing authorizations that occur during push replication runs using the Application Log (transaction SLG1) in the Employee Central Payroll system.
With this enhancement, log data about the push replication is now available in the Application log (SLG1). Analysing errors is easier and faster.
Configuration Requirements
For Employee Central Payroll, Synchronization Support Package EA-HR SPB9 must be installed in your system.
Please note that you can’t use the feature as a whole until the support package mentioned has been released. The full documentation will be made available then too.
What’s Changed
How It Looks Now
In the current version, data about the push replication is available in the Application log (SLG1). In addition, the log shows errors for the relevant users provided by the push replication framework: the user who executes the Web Service or the technical user who sets up the point-to-point replication.
How It Looked Before
In the previous version, the Application log did not include data about the push replication.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | PAY-21633 |
| Product | Employee Central Payroll |
| Module | Data Integration |
| Feature | Employee Master Data Replication |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Customer configured |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 1H 2023 |
| Valid as Of | 2023-06-02 |
2. Enhanced Alert Management in Payroll Control Center
The My Alerts application in Payroll Control Center is enhanced to support filtering of alerts based on alert status and provide the Key Indicator and Details columns for alerts marked as Resolved.
We made the following enhancements to My Alerts:
- Validation rules are now sorted by the number of assigned alerts, unassigned alerts, and resolved alerts in descending order. Payroll administrators can also filter validation rules based on alert status and search terms.
- In both worklists, the Resolved Alerts column is added after the Not Assigned Alerts column to provide the number of alerts that have been marked as resolved in each payroll process. Note: When the payroll administrator applies the proposed solution for an alert, they mark the alert as Solution Applied.If the payroll administrator doesn’t update the employee’s data but considers the alert as a false alarm, they mark the alert as Resolved. Employee Central Payroll H1 2023
These enhancements improve the user experience of alert management for payroll administrators.
Configuration Requirements
For Employee Central Payroll, Synchronization Support Package SPB9 must be installed in your system.
What’s Changed
| How It Looks Now | Description |
|---|---|
| Validation rules are now sorted by the number of assigned alerts, unassigned alerts, and resolved alerts in desending order. Payroll administrators can also filter validation rules based on alert status and search terms.In the previous version, payroll administrators couldn’t filter validation rules by status and the Resolved Alerts column wasn’t available. |
| Resolved Alerts column is added in worklists |
| Payroll administrators can check the key indicator and details of an alert that has been marked as Resolved. |
Technical Details
| Reference Number | PAY-22206 |
| Product | Employee Central Payroll |
| Feature | Payroll Control Center |
| Action | Recommended |
| Enablement | Customer configured |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Major |
| Software Version | 1H 2023 |
| Valid as Of | 2023-06-02 |
3. Additional Pay Types for Payment Information
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payment Information allows you to configure and use additional Pay Types.
These additional Pay Types allow you to enable a country/region-specific replication of employee’s payment information to Employee Central Payroll to cover country/region-specific business requirements. Employee Central Payroll H1 2023
What’s Changed
Currently, in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payment Information, you can configure and use eight additional pay types as well as the new pay type ‘Main Bonus’ along with the available standard pay types.
Previously, in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payment Information had only four pay types.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | ECT-185786 |
| Product | Employee Central Employee Central Payroll |
| Module | Localization |
| Feature | Country/Region SpecificsPayment Information |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Contact Product Support |
| Lifecycle | Early Adoption |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Software Version | 1H 2023 |
| Valid as Of | 2023-06-02 |
4. New Onboarding (Standard Event) for Payroll Tasks
We have added a new Onboarding (Standard Event) for New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
We’ve added this feature to support specific onboarding tasks for your Payroll administrator.
Example
If an employee/onbordee chooses tax code STC (tailored tax code) in the onboarding form, the Payroll administrator needs to start a manual process to create the infotype P0313 in the Employee Central Payroll system. For this initiation, a payroll task needs to be available in Employee Central, so that the Payroll administrator can easily find it and take the necessary action.
Configuration Requirements
For Employee Central Payroll, Synchronization Support Package SPB9 must be installed in your system.
Role-Based Permission Prerequisites
You have set the User Permissions >> Payroll Permissions >>Payroll Administration.
What’s Changed
In the current version for New Zealand and the United Kingdom, you configure Onboarding (Standard Event) under Payroll Tasks in Payroll Unified Configuration.
How It Looks Now
Technical Details
| Reference Number | PAY-22307 |
| Product | Employee Central Payroll |
| Module | Employee Central Payroll |
| Feature | Country/Region Specifics |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | New |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 1H 2023 |
| Valid as Of | 2023-06-02 |
5. New Mapping Logic for Public Holiday Enhancements in an SAP Payroll System
We’ve introduced a new mapping logic to support the replication of two new SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Time Management objects to the Substitution (2003) infotype, namely Holiday Category and Holiday Work Pattern. Previously, the mapping logic consisted in mapping the SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Time Management public holiday classes FULL, HALF, and NONE to the public holiday classes 1, 2 and 0 and setting the payroll entity day type to 0 when the payroll entity holiday class was 0, otherwise to 1 in an SAP payroll system.
We built this feature because of the changes made in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Time Management and to provide a more flexible way of configuring public holidays in an SAP payroll system. Employee Central Payroll H1 2023
Configuration Requirements
For an SAP payroll system, Synchronization Support Package SPB9 must be installed in your system.
What’s Changed
In the current version, we deliver the following customizing in an SAP payroll system: :
- For the new Employee Central entity HolidayCategory, we deliver a new configuration in which you define the properties and map it to the payroll entity Holiday Class as illustrated here:
- For the combination of the Employee Central entities HolidayCategory and Holiday Work Pattern, we deliver the two new customizing tables where you can define the properties and map the combination to the payroll entity Day Type as illustrated here:
How It Looks Now
In the previous version, it was not possible to flexibly configure public holidays. Each public holiday was assigned to a Holiday Class. The allowed values were FULL, HALF and NONE. In an SAP payroll system, the allowed mapping values for Holiday Class were 1, 2 and 0 and for Day Type only 0 and 1 according to the value of the holiday class. It was not possible to specify other values than these fixed ones.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | PAY-20139 |
| Product | Employee Central Payroll |
| Module | Time Management |
| Feature | Time Data Replication ERP Integration |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Customer configured |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | New |
| Major or Minor | Major |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 1H 2023 |
| Valid as Of | 2023-06-02 |
Thanks & Regards
Anipe Abraham
Sr. #SAP #SuccessFactors Consultant | Employee Central | Employee Central Payroll | Recruitment Management l Onboarding | PMGM | Sap Hcm | Corporate Trainer.
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