Month: February 2016

A vibrant community where HR & Payroll people come together to have important conversations about HR reporting & analytics, talent management & SuccessFactors, automating & optimising HR processes & services, HR mobility options, HCM visualisation, optimising payroll & time processing, data ownership & management, and organisational management. Designed to help each other pinpoint new and different ways to use SAP HR & Payroll functionality to get business results. Join us for 36+ sessions, workshops, deep-dives and panel discussions. Plus a plethora of networking opportunities and social gatherings.

Navigating Your Options for SAP Payroll Reporting and Picking the Right Tool for the Job

Mike Timm, ICG
Time: Monday, April 11 10:45am

A comprehensive overview of the standard payroll reporting options within SAP ERP HCM and offers guidelines for choosing the right one for your HR requirements. Review the capabilities within different payroll reports in SAP ERP HCM: Completeness Check Reports, Check Register, Payroll Journal, Wage Type Reporter, and Payroll Control Center. Understand the fundamentals of various SAP Payroll reports and how they can be applied. Review the key guiding principles for SAP Payroll reporting, for e.g., the Right Information, at the Right Time, to the Right Person, for the Right Decisions, etc. Create a reporting tool selection methodology to pick the right report for the reporting requirement.

The 10 Most Critical Factors That Impact the Accuracy and Efficiency of SAP Payroll

Mike Timm, ICG
Time: Tuesday, April 12 10:45am

Knowing what impacts payroll and how to help reduce the risks of those impacts will increase payroll efficiency and reduce payroll errors. When it comes to configuring, processing, and administering payroll, small details can have big ramifications. The most critical business, strategy, and technical topics every payroll professional must weigh carefully in order to avoid unnecessary costs and maximize efficiency.
1. Data integrity
2. Integration
3. Configuration and customization
4. HRSP and legal changes
5. Unit and parallel testing
6. Time management
7. Tax reporting and auditing
8. Troubleshooting
9. Year-end processing
10. Overpayments and claims

Hands on Workshop to Streamline the Payroll Process Through Customisation

Mike Timm, ICG
Time: Wednesday, April 13 9:00am

This workshop will be a hands on experience to streamline payroll processes using SAP delivered customisation tools. We will identify business requirements, discuss possible approaches, and then create the method to meet the business requirement. We’ll also explore ways we can streamline our payroll process and make it more efficient. We will design and create a Payroll process model, Payroll area menu and Payroll schema and rule. Gain a deep understanding of what SAP delivers and how we can use the tools to meet business needs, as well as be troubleshooting attendee real world issues so they can go home and resolve them. This hands on experience will be attendee driven to find issues they have and how to resolve them.

110 sessions—including comprehensive workshops, lectures, demos, panel discussions, and interactive roundtables—presented by top experts at SAP, leading customers, and the most authoritative consultants in the SAP HR arena.

Panel discussion: Payroll Q&A with SAP customers

Moderator: Mike Timm, Integrated Consulting Group
Panelists: Brigid Sternberg, SSM Health;
Linda Crosby, United Launch Alliance;
Georgia Ogles, NuSkin;
Eric Sauerhoefer-Thompson, The Walt Disney Company
Time: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Room: Margaux 2

This no-holds-barred exchange of ideas with peers and experts tackles your most pressing payroll challenges. Join this panel to:

• Learn how your peers are streamlining and increasing the consistency of their regular payroll runs
• Examine how others are reducing the time spent making payroll adjustments through proactive analysis and error correction
• Review best practices to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of payroll results

Navigating payroll reporting options in SAP: Key criteria for picking the right tool for your HR requirements

Mike Timm, ICG
Time: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Room: Lafleur 2

This session delves into the various payroll reporting options in SAP ERP HCM and the key capabilities of each, and provides key criteria to help determine which one will best meet your requirements based on report type and use case. By attending this session you will:

• Examine various payroll reporting use cases — including Completeness Check Reports, Check Register, Payroll Journal, Wage Type Reporter, Claims Report, and Payroll Reconciliation Report — and which reporting tool aligns best with each
• Understand the fundamentals of various SAP Payroll reports and when they are useful during the payroll process
• Create a tool selection methodology

Take home a decision matrix to pick the right tool for the job.

The fundamentals of customizing SAP Time Evaluation

Mike Timm, ICG
Time: Thursday, February 25, 2016 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Room: Lafleur 2

This session delves into the time evaluation process in SAP with an in-depth look at time entry, time evaluation, and payroll output, and examines whether and how a custom function or operation may be required. In this session you will:

• Gain an in-depth understanding of SAP Time Evaluation configuration objects, such as tables, schemas, rules, functions, and operations, and how each object impacts the process and flows to the time evaluation output
• Through lecture and live demo, learn tips and tricks about configuration objects, including how to create and modify schemas and rules to avoid potentially costly mistakes when making changes to existing objects
• See custom functions or operations implemented to meet business requirements