Welcome to the SAP Payroll Insights newsletter by Insight Consulting Partners! This newsletter is focused on SAP and Employee Central (EC) Payroll features, news, tips & tricks and general industry information.
Notes and Updates from SAP
There's a problem with the standard EC-EC Payroll integration when you have more than one Job Info event effective on the same date: only one record gets replicated to EC Payroll. Note 2289209 talks about this and presents a solution. Every EC Payroll customer should take a look and implement this note.
Speaking of EC Payroll, there are a couple payslip issues. First, when trying to access via iOS you might get a blank screen. See note 2201648 to resolve that. Second, there are times where the payslip overlays a menu item in IE 10 (of course). See note 2237638 for a solution to that. And for both SAP on-premise and EC Payrolls, there's an obscure payslip issue with US Garnishments - see note 2815495 for that.
And the last interesting note for this newsletter is 2816965 - EC Payroll is unable to post balance sheet items with personnel number to S/4HANA Cloud. So if you want to post to balance sheet accounts with personnel numbers, first, don't do it. Keep people detail in payroll instead of accounting. You can always come back to payroll for employee-by-employee detail for any account you've posted to. If your current practice is to post to accounting with personnel numbers, consider changing your practice to align with the previous statement. Finally, if you just can't get along without personnel numbers in accounting - accounting will grind to a halt and payroll won't get paid - then apply this note.
Around the Web
Year-end preparations for the US are getting started. SAP's traditional year-end blog is up and going, and I encourage every US payroll customer to follow it and participate. As usual, the year-end support packs for the US come out in late October; rest of the world is December (fun times for global customers!). ASUG will have some webinars in early October, as usual. I always get this question: Do I have to install the year-end HR Support Pack to be supported for payroll next year? And my answer is: Yes. Of course you might be fine if you don't, and you might be able to apply individual notes. But don't risk your payroll processing and payroll compliance on the possibility that you 'might' be OK.
There's an interesting new law that has been upheld in Pittsburgh that allows it to require employers to provide paid sick leave for workers. This is in the same vein as other Paid Family & Medical Leave policies that are being enacted at the state level, and I wouldn't be shocked to see this propagate all around PA in the near future. Hopefully not every local PA tax authority will enact their own law on this - maybe it will be more generally applied!
This is worth carrying over from the previous newsletter: If you have US employees on your SAP Payroll check out this seminar from the American Payroll Association on the new W-4 form and tax calculations for 2020.
We have a new SAP HCM Insights podcast: Looking Forward to SuccessConnect. Personally, I hope I hear from SAP SuccessFactors that they are actively and publicly developing a new payroll product, but who knows? If you are attending SuccessConnect in Las Vegas and want to meet just let me know!
Quote of the Moment
"Better to sweat in the field than cry at the bank" -- an unknown farmer
Have a great day!
Steve Bogner
Managing Partner, Insight Consulting Partners
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