Archives by: Mike Timm
HR 2015 Las Vegas | March 3
If you are attending HR2015 today, make sure to catch these sessions!
Field-tested strategies to avoid or overcome the most common and costly payroll and time-related challenges
Mike Timm, ICG
Time: Tuesday, March 3 11:15 AM Pacific
Room: Raphael 3
This session tackles some of the most common payroll and time-related pitfalls and offers proven techniques for identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving them, including lessons to:
Identify the object master data, configuration, or systemic issue causing the payroll error, and determine the best approach for resolution
Overcome technical complexities associated ...
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10 most critical factors of SAP payroll: Configuration and Customization
In this blog post, I'll be covering Configuration and Customization as the next critical factor of SAP payroll. In previous blog posts I covered Data Integrity and Integration.
I believe there are four major areas of configuration and customization, all of which can be accomplished using standard SAP functionality.
SAP Project (transactioncodeSPRO)
Implementation Guide (IMG)
Schemas (tcode PE01)
Rules (tcode PE02)
Features (tcode PE03)
Beyond those major areas, we can get a better understanding of how things are working or enhance how payroll processes using tcode PE04 to review or customize Operations and ...
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10 most critical factors of SAP payroll: Integration
In my last blog post, I identified Data Integrity as the first of 10 most critical factors of SAP Payroll. Continuing with this blog series, now we'll cover how integration is critical to SAP Payroll.
Integration occurs throughout the SAP payroll process by way of table configuration, schemas and rules, HR master data and configuration, employee time entry, Finance and Controlling master data, Accounts Payable configuration and master data, and interfaces to partners both before and after. There are many other integration points that ...
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10 most critical factors of SAP payroll: Data Integrity
In last week’s blog post, we introduced our blog series about the 10 most critical factors of SAP payroll. This week, we will cover the first critical factor: Data Integrity.
Data integrity in payroll is a fundamental requirement due to the sensitive nature of what is being accomplished. Payroll is processed at a point in time with the expectation that incoming data is factual and complete.
The most straight forward and probably the best definition is from Thomas McRae in The Impact of ...
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10 most critical factors of SAP payroll
SAP Payroll can be a complex and unwieldy system when not methodically implemented and maintained. The SAP Payroll business processes can be accurate and efficient when the 10 most critical factors are considered and understood by those implementing, maintaining, and performing business processes. When it comes to configuring, processing, and administering payroll, small details can have big ramifications.
This 10 blog post series will dive into the most critical business, strategy, and technical topics every payroll professional must weigh carefully in order to avoid ...
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Optimizing Payroll in SAP: Looking Back on the Philadelphia Seminar
The Philadelphia Seminar was a great time with vast amounts of information, detailed how-to's with examples, and opinions provided by the speakers and attendees. The interaction between speakers and attendees helped to share knowledge and gain insight into how SAP functionality works for different SAP customers.
As expected, BSI 10.0 was a much discussed topic as many users have struggled to get it installed and have reciprocity calculation issues. From the companies with attendees at the seminar, only one had gone live, and ...
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ASUG Midwest-Central Chapter Meeting | November 8, 2013
The next ASUG Midwest-Central Chapter Meeting will be held November 8, 2013 at Emporia State University in Overland Park. Once again, the sessions will provide detailed information and insight into how others use and the potential of SAP functionality.
Ron Freeze and Peggy Lane of Emporia State University will provide details into the experience ESU has had with SAP and where they see it headed. 'ERP at ESU: Past, Present and Future with SAP' will no doubt provide valuable information.
John Fox of ...
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ASUG Minnesota Chapter Meeting | November 7, 2013
The next ASUG Minnesota Chapter Meeting is November 7, 2013 at the Target Campus West in Minneapolis. As usual, they have great line up with multiple tracks so there should be something for everyone.
I'm especially interested in the ASUG Leadership 2.0 InDepth Roadshow sessions that will focus on Change Management. I have found Change Management to be a key ingredient to projects and something that is overlooked or discarded by struggling or failing projects. Any project that successfully utilizes Change Management ...
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Tip: Put a Stop Sign on a transport
To help prevent a transport from being released accidentally without your knowledge, start the description with @1D@
When you look at the transport, you'll see the following sign preceding the description of the transport.
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