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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 ...

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 ...

October 31, 2013 by Mike Timm in Event

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 ...

October 30, 2013 by Mike Timm in Event

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.

October 9, 2013 by Mike Timm in Blog

SAP ERP HCM Year End Customer Letter 2013

September 26, 2013 by Mike Timm in Blog

HR2013 Recap

The HR2013 conference was the 10th annual and Amy Thistle put it together excellently. The move to an HR only conference appeared to be well received and I found networking much easier because we all had an HR focus. Discussions about SuccessFactors and the Cloud were heard all around, but as a Payroll and Time consultant I'm still trying to figure out exactly how this will impact my areas. I'm also interested in how SAP will work with customers that may not ...

March 11, 2013 by Mike Timm in Blog

SAP HCM Payroll tip: Preventing errors before they occur & using user exits to your advantage

As part of the audit process, SAP customers develop a number of custom reports for the HR module to look for things like missing infotypes or specific items. Let’s look at some tax calculations – especially if you're a company that has many, many tax jurisdictions. In the US, for example, if you’re a company in Pennsylvania or Ohio where employees move between areas and there are many locals. In these cases, you may not have the configuration set up for the ...

August 16, 2012 by Mike Timm in Blog

SAP HCM Payroll tip: Timing your payroll processing to prevent errors & give IT and HR some breathing room

Typically, companies are running their payrolls on Monday or Tuesday so they can get a payroll out by the end of the week and make direct deposits in a timely manner. When dealing with that, typically audits should start at least a day or two prior. If it's on Monday, by Friday you might want to start looking at some basic things: Do I have all my audit reports? Does everybody have a cost center? Does every employee have an Infotype 9? Then, based on your ...

August 13, 2012 by Mike Timm in Blog

SAP HCM Payroll tips – Audit Checks: Some key Infotypes not to overlook

Of all the audit checks that you could perform, there are a couple that really are key – and critical to payroll success. In fact, I'm actually working with a client that's recently gone live now. These audit checks were not put in place prior to go‑live, and now there's a scramble to put them in. One of them is checking a report that will go out and check for missing infotypes. If an employee is missing certain infotypes when they get into ...

August 1, 2012 by Mike Timm in Blog

SAP HCM payroll tip: BSI TaxFactory Batch Test Tool

Since HCM relies on BSI TaxFactory for US payroll tax calculations, how do you handle verification and testing of BSI calculations in your payroll audits & testing? HCM teams may be unaware that BSI TaxFactory has a Batch Tool, which is my preferred method of testing BSI due to the easy of copying SAP information, manipulation of that information, and being able to save the scenarios for later use. When the time comes to apply TUBs, Cyclic, or upgrade to a newer version of BSI TaxFactory, ...

July 24, 2012 by Mike Timm in Blog

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