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UKISUG 2021 | How One Customer Transformed and Automated Its SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Candidate Offer Letters
UKISUG 2021 | How One Customer Transformed and Automated Its SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Candidate Offer Letters 1008 740 SpinifexIT

A large multinational organisation recently streamlined and automated the creation and distribution of its candidate offer letters across SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and Recruiting.

In this webinar, you will learn how they did it and see the results, including the reductions in time, effort, and cost they have realized across their candidate offer letter processes.

Attend this session to:

• Learn about Strato Documents (available in the SAP Store) and how it streamlines the design, distribution, routing, and storage of employee documents in SAP SuccessFactors

• Hear the story of how one customer used Strato Documents to dramatically transform its employee document generation processes and see the results they achieved

• See a demo of Strato Documents to understand how it can help you optimize the design, distribution, routing, and storage of your employee documents

Event date:
Tuesday, December 14, 2021 – 10 AM – 11 AM
You may join the session using the UKISUG registration link below.

You may join the webinar as a UKISUG member or as a guest.

Learn more about Strato for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting. Visit the Strato website at www.StratoHCM.com . Watch the video below for a sneak peek.

Watch On Demand: Maximize the Value of Your Existing SAP Payroll System
Watch On Demand: Maximize the Value of Your Existing SAP Payroll System 1008 740 SpinifexIT

Whether you are planning a move to Employee Central Payroll in the near future or are remaining on-premise with SAP Payroll for now, it’s more important than ever to find ways to optimize your existing payroll processes, data, and reporting.

Use the form below to sign up for the on-demand version.

In this webinar, join AJ Whalen and Brian Erickson and panelists Mary Halfmann from Central Michigan University, Steve Bogner from Insight Consulting Partners, as they lead a discussion about how you can make your existing SAP payroll more efficient, including:

Producing accurate reports & reconcile payroll differences

Optimizing processing via Payroll Control Center

Best practices for preparing to migrate data and configuration to Employee Central Payroll

Tips for validating and improving data integrity

Maximize the Value of Your Existing SAP Payroll System

Register to watch the roundtable session on-demand.

Meet our Experts

AJ WHALEN

MARY HALFMANN
HR/SAP Systems Analyst
Central Michigan University  

STEVE BOGNER
Managing Partner
Insight Consulting Partners

BRIAN ERICKSON
Director, Customer Engagement, SpinifexIT

Watch On Demand: How One Customer Transformed and Automated Its SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Candidate Offer Letters
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Discover how a large multinational organization streamlined and automated the creation and distribution of its candidate offer letters across SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and Recruiting.

You’ll learn how they did it and see the results, including the reductions in time, effort, and cost they have realized across their candidate offer letter processes.

SpinifexIT’s AJ Whalen and Stephen Gallo will also talk about:

• How the customer transformed its employee document generation processes and the results they achieved with Strato Documents

• How Strato (available in the SAP Store) streamlines the design, distribution, routing, and storage of both employee and candidate documents in SAP SuccessFactors. You’ll also get a demo of Strato!




SPEAKER

Stephen Gallo
Product Architect
SpinifexIT


Register to watch the webinar on-demand.

How One Customer Transformed and Automated Its SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Candidate Offer Letters

Register to watch the roundtable session on-demand.

Learn more about Strato for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting. Visit the Strato website at www.StratoHCM.com. Watch the video below for a sneak peek.

Maximize the Value of Your Existing SAP Payroll System
Maximize the Value of Your Existing SAP Payroll System 1024 576 SpinifexIT

Whether you are planning a move to Employee Central Payroll in the near future or are remaining on-premise with SAP Payroll for now, it’s more important than ever to find ways to optimize your existing payroll processes, data, and reporting.

Join this informative webinar to hear from independent SAP Payroll experts as they discuss the actions you can take to make your existing SAP Payroll more efficient and accurate while preparing for the future and get an update from SAP on the current payroll solution roadmap.

Topics discussed will include:

  1. Tips for validating and improving data integrity
  2. How to produce more accurate reports and quickly reconcile payroll differences
  3. How to optimize processing via Payroll Control Center
  4. What are best practices for preparing to migrate data and configuration to Employee Central Payroll
  5. What does SAP’s payroll solution roadmap look like and what does it mean for your organization?

Date: October 20, 2021
Time: 2 PM EST
Webinar will be run via Zoom

Speakers

Mary Halfmann
HR/SAP Systems Analyst
Central Michigan University

Steve Bogner
Managing Partner
Insight Consulting Partners

Brian Erickson
Director, Customer Engagement
SpinifexIT

AJ Whalen
Director, Marketing
SpinifexIT

Who this webinar is for: Payroll Managers, Payroll Analyst, Payroll Vice Presidents, Business Systems Director, HRIS Director, CHRO, Business Analyst, IT Director, CFO

Watch On Demand: Moving to Employee Central Payroll: Transition or Transformation?
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When it comes to moving from an on-premise payroll to Employee Central Payroll, customers often use different tactics and take different approaches, but what is right for your organization? Sign up to access the on-demand version.

In this roundtable discussion, join SpinifexIT’s AJ Whalen and panelists Imran Sajid from SAP SuccessFactors, Judy Fabrizi from Swagelok, and Mike Timm from Integrated Consulting Group as they lead an informative discussion about payroll migration, including:

What the difference is between “transition” and “transform” when it comes to payroll. This also includes the pros and cons of each.

The most important factors you should consider first when planning a move from on-premise to Employee Central Payroll.

Best practices for moving configuration, data, and results during a payroll migration. This includes the most important tools or skills.

Moving to Employee Central Payroll: Transition or Transformation?

Sign up to watch the roundtable session on-demand.

MEET OUR EXPERTS

JUDY FABRIZI
Payroll Manager
Swagelok Company 

Judy Fabrizi is the Payroll Manager at Swagelok Company, an international leader focusing on the manufacture of gas and fluid system components. With over 20 years in the manufacturing arena, Judy has implemented various SAP product lines in various organizations for system transformations on an international level.

In her current role, she is responsible for an optimized cloud-based payroll processing system, federal, state and local compliance, third party requirements and the related tax returns in the domestic US.

Judy holds a BS in Accounting from The Ohio State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

IMRAN SAJID
Global Senior Director
SAP SuccessFactors  

Imran Sajid is an HR Director at SAP SuccessFactors with expertise in cloud and on-premise software across a diverse background of Marketing, Product Management, Education, Professional Services, and Sales/Pre-Sales.

He has authored 3 books, spoken at every major SAP conference worldwide, and is a volunteer for the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG).

MIKE TIMM
Managing Partner
Integrated Consulting Group

Mike is Managing Partner at ICG. His 27-year career in the Information Technology industry includes positions in Accounting, Information Technology, and Human Resources. Before establishing Integrated Consulting Group in April 2000, Mike worked for Arthur Andersen and Prism Consulting Group.

ICG has consulted and partnered with such companies as CDI Corporation, IBM, British Petroleum, Marathon Oil, Cadbury Schweppes, and Walt Disney.

As an SAP Certified Consultant, Mike has led a variety of projects with an emphasis in Human Resources, Payroll, Time Management, Support, and Outsourcing.

YOUR HOST

AJ WHALEN
Director of Marketing & Partner Engagement, SpinifexIT North America 

Moving to Employee Central Payroll: Transition or Transformation?
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When it comes to moving from an on-premise payroll to Employee Central Payroll, customers often use different tactics and take different approaches, but what is right for your organization?

In this roundtable discussion, join SpinifexIT’s AJ Whalen and panelists Imran Sajid from SAP SuccessFactors, Judy Fabrizi from Swagelok, and Mike Timm from Integrated Consulting Group as they lead an informative discussion about payroll migration, including:

What the difference is between “transition” and “transform” when it comes to payroll. This also includes the pros and cons of each.

The most important factors you should consider first when planning a move from on-premise to Employee Central Payroll.

Best practices for moving configuration, data, and results during a payroll migration. This includes the most important tools or skills.

MEET OUR EXPERTS

JUDY FABRIZI
Payroll Manager
Swagelok Company 

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Judy Fabrizi is the Payroll Manager at Swagelok Company, an international leader focusing on the manufacture of gas and fluid system components. With over 20 years in the manufacturing arena, Judy has implemented various SAP product lines in various organizations for system transformations on an international level.

In her current role, she is responsible for an optimized cloud-based payroll processing system, federal, state and local compliance, third party requirements and the related tax returns in the domestic US.

Judy holds a BS in Accounting from The Ohio State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

IMRAN SAJID
Global Senior Director
SAP SuccessFactors  

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Imran Sajid is an HR Director at SAP SuccessFactors with expertise in cloud and on-premise software across a diverse background of Marketing, Product Management, Education, Professional Services, and Sales/Pre-Sales.

He has authored 3 books, spoken at every major SAP conference worldwide, and is a volunteer for the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG).

MIKE TIMM
Managing Partner
Integrated Consulting Group

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Mike is Managing Partner at ICG. His 27-year career in the Information Technology industry includes positions in Accounting, Information Technology, and Human Resources. Before establishing Integrated Consulting Group in April 2000, Mike worked for Arthur Andersen and Prism Consulting Group.

ICG has consulted and partnered with such companies as CDI Corporation, IBM, British Petroleum, Marathon Oil, Cadbury Schweppes, and Walt Disney.

As an SAP Certified Consultant, Mike has led a variety of projects with an emphasis in Human Resources, Payroll, Time Management, Support, and Outsourcing.

YOUR HOST

AJ WHALEN
Director of Marketing & Partner Engagement, SpinifexIT North America 

Overview SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll
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In this introduction to SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, learn about the cloud-based payroll system meant to handle global enterprise needs.

If you’re a payroll manager, finance professional or HR executive who is looking for a new payroll system, there are many choices in the market. One to consider is SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll.

What is SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll?

SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll is a cloud-based payroll system meant to provide the breadth of functionality and global coverage enterprises need.

The core Employee Central Payroll system is built using the SAP Payroll engine, providing a reliable and proven engine for calculating the most complex of payrolls.

The Payroll Control Center front end brings pre-payroll and post-payroll processes, continuous data auditing, and payroll processing reporting and analytics to payroll administrators in a one-stop shop. At the time of writing, Employee Central Payroll supports 46 countries for payroll processing and localization support.

The Employee Central system is a prerequisite for implementing and using the Payroll system. So, this is a factor to consider if you are looking purely for a payroll system without changing your existing core HR system.

From a high level, Employee Central Payroll provides a number of important functions. It can run end-to-end, gross-to-net payroll, covering tax calculations, such as through partner product BSI TaxFactory in the U.S. It can print checks, remit payments, provide online employee pay slips and post payroll results to your financial system.

From a compliance and security perspective, Employee Central Payroll brings standard-delivered data formats, such as address, telephone, email, national ID and name. It provides fields for contracts and, in supported countries, the functionality to support local laws and reporting or other communication with local authorities. Examples of this include superannuation in Australia, e-filing of employees’ payments and deductions in the United Kingdom, and storing and reporting salary increase changes in Brazil.

Employee Central provides a way to manage and automate master data privacy and retention policies that uphold compliance with regional, federal, and local rules regarding data privacy.

It also includes Event Listener for Pre-Payroll Monitoring, which scans HR master data to identify any data changes. These are cross-checked against any open alerts by the system, and if any of the changes resolve an open alert, then the alert will be closed. This enables more streamlined payroll data monitoring and frees up time to focus elsewhere.

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll use cases

Vendors such as SAP, ADP and Ultimate Software are popular choices for payroll and provide a lot of functionality for running payroll in the United States, Canada and other countries. However, with many choices out there, it can be difficult to determine what system is best for your company.

Price might be a factor, but when it comes to payroll, it is often better to look at what features, functionality and compliance capabilities each payroll vendor provides. You may find yourself reviewing seven or eight different vendors before producing a shortlist. Sometimes, it is necessary to issue a request for information to identify which vendors to invite to a formal request for proposal process.

Employee Central Payroll is ideal for customers who are either global, complex or both. Typically, the base number for getting ROI on the implementation is about 1,000 employees in a country. In some cases, customers with fewer employees can get good ROI.

If your workforce has one or more unions — whether you have any collective bargaining agreements or not — then Employee Central Payroll would be a suitable option. It has an ability to handle the complexity of having specific rules and regulations defined by unions that are in addition to federal, state, local and regional laws.

If you have — or plan to have — all of your employees in Employee Central, Employee Central Payroll can serve as a global payroll option. The point-to-point integration between the two ensures that employee data from all countries can flow between the systems and can be monitored using the provided monitoring tools. No middleware integration is needed for Employee Central Payroll to use the master data in Employee Central for payroll processing.

If you want to fully outsource your payroll processing, you may wish to look at vendors that specialize in those particular services. However, some service providers do offer outsourced payroll processing for customers using Employee Central Payroll.

Reimplement your support and maintenance

SAP provides standard technical support for live systems through its SAP ONE Support Launchpad. The latest support packages — a collection of the latest legal requirements and corrections — are applied by raising a ticket through SAP ONE Support Launchpad. SAP also offers some premium support services for customers.

For payroll maintenance, applying patches and fixes, or business process outsourcing services, you can reach out to a variety of payroll service providers and systems integrators for support, depending on what you are looking for.

For ongoing government compliance, SAP has a team of more than 150 people that track and manage local compliance laws and regulations across numerous countries. SAP provides local legal changes for Employee Central Payroll for all supported countries. These legal changes can include such changes as new reporting requirements, tax rate changes and sick pay changes. These are provided as support packages, but you can also have an administrator apply them in Upgrade Center.

New features and functionality — as well as legal changes — are released every six months, usually in the second or fourth quarter. Urgent bug fixes are typically released on a weekly or biweekly basis. New features and legal changes can be applied using Upgrade Center in the system.

Reporting and analytics

Two of Employee Central Payroll’s weaker capabilities are its reporting and analytics. Reporting is limited to just payroll data — for example, worker, compensation and tax data — and cannot combine data from other systems, such as organizational objects or cost allocation objects. Based on your needs, you may need to augment functionality with a third-party product, like SpinifexIT.

Licensing

Employee Central Payroll uses a SaaS subscription model and is charged annually on a per-employee, per-year basis. For exact pricing, you should reach out to your local account executive at SAP.

Enterprise payroll capabilities

Employee Central Payroll is capable of handling significant complexity and provides a broad range of payroll functionality.

Here’s a list of some of that functionality:

  • Gross-to-net payroll;
  • Legal changes and localization, including country-specific reporting;
  • Tax forms, tax models and tax compliance at a country and local level;
  • Advances and deductions;
  • Retroactive calculations;
  • Payroll simulations;
  • Check printing;
  • Alerts for data errors or inconsistencies;
  • Data privacy and protection;
  • Payroll auditing;
  • Integration with finance systems for general ledger posting, time and attendance systems, pension providers and benefits providers;
  • Evaluation of time data for generating compensation data;
  • Unions and collective bargaining agreements;
  • Garnishments;
  • Analytics and KPIs;
  • Employee self-service; and
  • Mobile access through the SAP SuccessFactors Mobile application.

The Employee Central core HR system is a prerequisite of implementing Employee Central Payroll, and the two are tightly integrated.

Author

iXerv-President-Luke-Marson

Luke Marson

President, Americas
iXerv

This article is a repost from Tech Target.
Read it here.

Simplified SAP Payroll and SuccessFactors Reporting At Your Fingertips
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Easy Reporter seamlessly integrates with SAP’s Payroll Control Center. Automate and optimize your key HCM processes with this powerful combo.

Find out more about SpinifexIT's Easy Reporter and Payroll Control Center Combo

Complete the form below to request a copy of the webinar or book a quick 15-minute discovery call.
 

Benefits of using Easy Reporter

Access reports quickly with easy-to-use tiles

Use pre-delivered reports to reconcile Payroll

Future-proof your
payroll processes

Always display the latest info across all reports

Implement your Payroll Control Center 85% faster

Nail your Audit & Compliance (eg. GDPR) reporting requirements

Frequently Asked Questions, answered!

What is the implementation time for Easy Reporter?

Easy Reporter doesn’t require a full implementation that takes days, it is simply a matter of receiving and applying a set of transports from our team. Once the transports are provided, we will set up a training plan. This spans a couple of days for your Superuser, and another day for your Admin.

Do you have any pre-delivered reports for UK Gender Pay Gap reporting?

We do have some standard reports, and they work fairly similarly to the SAP standard. They have a bit more flexibility built in. To see the full list of our reports, send a request to [email protected].

With the Easy Reporter file output options, can we send a file directly to our pension provider?

Yes indeed. Easy Reporter provides the ability to output files via email as you saw or for a more secure option you can also upload the file directly via FTP. In both cases, you can also leverage your own encryption tools within Easy Reporter to further secure your data.

What is the minimum enhancement pack needed for Easy Reporter and Payroll Control Centre?

Payroll Control Centre requires Enhancement Pack 7 with HR Renewal 2.0. Easy Reporter is tested down to a much earlier enhancement pack level. However, if you want to integrate with the PCC then of course you need to be up to date.

Do we need to have Payroll Control Centre already implemented to use the Easy Reporter functionality?

Yes, because we integrate into the PCC framework you will need to have the basics implemented in order to make use of the Easy Reporter integration. The good news is that using Easy Reporter means that the implementation time can be dramatically reduced. We provide all the same RDS exception checks as the standard SAP RDS, and as you can imagine it is much much easier and faster to adapt those to your requirements or build new checks

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Get your Payroll Control Center up and running in no time with a powerful rapid-deployment solution. Optimize this process by 85% with this powerful Payroll Reconciliation and Reporting Combo.

Find out more about SpinifexIT's Payroll Control Center Rapid Deployment Solution

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Payroll Control Center RDS at a glance

Use multiple methods of
validating data & payroll

Reduce PCC
Implementation Time

Future-proof your
payroll

Set up your PCC without
technical assistance

Easy-to-use
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Empower your
Payroll Team today