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SAP Payroll Processing control center

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 At-a-Glance: SAP Best Practices for SAP Payroll Processing control center
Jump-start automated payroll processing to deliver accurate, efficient, and high-quality results
Business Requirement
What is my pain?
 Do you struggle with many manual steps to achieve correct and consistent payroll
results in SAP ERP HCM Payroll?
 You believe there is only limited transparency over the complete end-to-end payroll
process but a high level of complexity of calculation?
 Do you struggle with large amounts of overnight-running reports to obtain insight into
the payroll results?
 You are looking for a starting point for implementing the SAP Payroll Processing
control center to master these challenges?
What are my needs?
 Implement the SAP Payroll Processing control center faster, at lower cost and based
on proven best practices
 Set up pre-configured validation rules for gross pay, net pay, taxation, time and
attendance data, and organizational structure
 Reduce the time needed to develop new customer-specific rules based on the
templates provided in this rapid-deployment solution
 Accelerate your implementation by making use of pre-configured processes and KPIs
for running payroll
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Solution
Solution description
 The SAP Payroll Processing control center simplifies and optimizes the entire end-
to-end payroll process, helping organizations to increase the efficiency,
transparency and accuracy of payroll processing
 Make use of pre-configured payroll processes, KPIs, and validation rules to
accelerate the implementation of the SAP Payroll Processing control center
In scope
 Pre-configured validation rules created using the new manage configuration UI for
the policies related to employment, compensation, gross and net pay, taxation,
time and attendance data, and organizational structure, helping Payroll
Administrators to solve issues more effectively and efficiently
 Pre-configured payroll key performance indicators for employee count, gross, net
and tax figures as well as process types for the Team Monitoring, the Production
Payroll and the Posting to Finance to be executed by the Payroll Process Manager
 Additional process types for planned off-cycle and subsequent activities, ad-hoc off-
cycle enabling payroll managers to pay employees even outside of the regular
payroll cycle
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Jump-start your implementation of the SAP Payroll Processing control center!
Business challenges
 Do you struggle with many manual steps to achieve correct
and consistent payroll results?
 You believe there is only limited transparency over the
complete end-to-end payroll process but a high level of
complexity of calculation?
 Do you struggle with large amounts of overnight-running
reports to obtain insight into the payroll results?
 You are looking for a starting point for implementing the SAP
Payroll Processing control center to overcome these
challenges?
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There is a solution
 The SAP Payroll Processing control center simplifies and
optimizes the entire end-to-end payroll process, helping
organizations to increase the efficiency, transparency and
accuracy of payroll processing
 Make use of pre-configured payroll processes, KPIs, and
validation rules to accelerate the implementation of the SAP
Payroll Processing control center
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Benefits for you

 Reduced time, cost and risk for implementing validation rules by way of best practice content

 Broad coverage of different types of validation rules for defined policies

 The pre-configured processes leverage innovative features of the SAP Payroll Processing control
center (Team Monitoring, Production Payroll, Off-cycles)

 Coverage of an entire end-to-end payroll process including KPIs

 Easy modification of validation rule definitions and threshold limits by business users using new
manage configuration UI.

 Shorter time for learning how to develop new customer-specific rules based on the templates

provided in this solution

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Manage Payroll Processes and Analyze Payroll Anomalies Using the PCC
Overview
The SAP Best Practices for SAP Payroll Processing control center covers pre-configured content for
the two roles supported by the SAP Payroll Processing control center, the Payroll Process Manager
and the Payroll Administrator.

Payroll Process Managers are responsible for Payroll Administrators are responsible for

the overall payroll process, for ensuring payroll data quality. They also need to
ensuring correctness and meeting timelines and make sure that payroll calculation for employees
for triggering others to resolve issues. is accurate according to defined policies.

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Manage Payroll Processes and Analyze Payroll Anomalies Using the PCC
Scope

• Pre-configured validation rules with test payroll payslip, previous period payslip and wagetype
comparisons against previous payroll periods as root cause analysis for defined policies, allowing
Payroll Administrators to solve issues more efficiently and effectively.

• Pre-configured policy types that are categorized based on validation type such as employment
related, payroll gross/net, compensation and  country dependent (USA) or country independent (XX).
This shall enable the system assign the alerts to the appropriate group of payroll admins during team
monitoring.

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Manage Payroll Processes and Analyze Payroll Anomalies Using the PCC
Scope (cont.)

• Pre-configured payroll process templates for USA country version, namely the Team Monitoring, the
Production Payroll , Posting to Finance with bank filing, Planned off-cycle payroll run, Planned off-
cycle posting with bank file, Ad-hoc Off cycle  to be executed by the Payroll Process Manager. 

The pre-configured content for the Team Monitoring contains the process steps for creating test
payroll data, posting simulation based on test payroll results, initiating policies, and monitoring. 

The Three-Click Production Payroll covers the entire productive payroll process from starting and
running payroll, posting simulation, to error monitoring and ending payroll.

In addition, a pre-configured process for the productive Posting to Finance (including bank transfer)
is delivered as part of this best practices solution. This process includes the six process steps create
posting document, release posting document, transfer posting document, create pre-DME file,
create DME file and sending DME file.

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Manage Payroll Processes and Analyze Payroll Anomalies Using the PCC
Scope (cont.)

• For countries using off-cycle payroll runs such as USA pre-configured process templates for
productive off-cycle execution, off-cycle payroll posting and bank transfer and Ad-hoc off-cycle
with subsequent activities are also provided.

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Manage Payroll Processes and Analyze Payroll Anomalies Using the PCC
Key Process Steps

 Team Monitoring

 Production payroll

 Posting to Finance and Bank file generation

 Planned productive Off-cycle and subsequent posting, bank filing

 Ad-hoc Off-cycle and subsequent posting, bank filing

 Automatic alert assignment to individual teams

 Assign alert from the team alert queue

 Analyze, Correct Alerts and record comments

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