Articles for March, 2009

Thank You for a Great HR2009!

Symphony Management Consulting would like to thank everyone who was able to attend this year’s HR2009 Conference in Las Vegas.

Many of the presentations that were given by our expert consultants were well attended and we hope you were able to get a glimpse of what Symphony can do for you. We appreciate all the interest in our company and look forward to creating partnerships where we can become your company’s SAP HCM ERP experts.

In addition we’ve posted some photos from the event - take a look!

Tags: Booth, Events, HR 2009, hr2009, sap, sap hcm help, SAPHR2009, Symphony Consulting

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Employee Tax Exemption

Question

How do I Exempt employees from certain taxes easily without doing a lot of reconfiguration?

Answer

Use infotype 0235 “Other Taxes” to exempt the employees from a certain taxes, for example a student might be exempt from Social Security and Medicare taxes, depending on the student’s visa and residency.

Tags: Configuration, how to, Infotype 235, Payroll processing, sap hcm help, SAP Tax Exempt Employees, taxes

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EEA Reporting

Question

Is there a way to set up SAP for EEA reporting?

Answer

EEA program is for all Federal government orgs and any contractor that has a contract with the Federal government in excess of a certain dollar amount. The set up includes NOC (national occupation codes) and employment statistics. It looks similar as the set up for EEO in SAP. The standard report in SAP is S_AHR_61018783 Equal Employment Act EEA Report The config can be found is under Payroll Canada under Payroll Canada - Reporting and Statistics - Employment Equity Act Reporting (EEA), as well as Personnel Administration - Additional Personnel Data. You assign NOC codes to positions (or jobs) which are delivered. There is some config against the wage types. You also have to ensure that the 4 target groups are entered in I0077 (canadian version), which are Women, People with Disabilities, Visible Minorities & First Nations. The mandatory reporting can encompass more than just the one view of the report.

Tags: Canadian EEA Reporting, Compliance Reporting, Configuration, Governmental reporting, HCM, National occupation codes, sap, SAP HCM, sap hcm help

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Wage Types

Question

What configuration items are required to downloaded the time information(wage types) for an outsourced payroll system?

Answer

Within SAP HR- there is standard “TIME WAGE TYPE EXPORT” function that can be selected. The wage types that you wish to export will need to be identified, and the outbound information is stored in “SAP IDOCS”. A cross reference will need to be written to link the wage type with the “code” in the outsourced system.

Tags: Configuration, HCM, outsourced payroll, Payroll, sap, SAP HCM, sap hcm help, SAP IDOCS, wage types

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EEO Report

Question

How do you run the EEO Report in SAP? I know we set up positions, can you assist me?

Answer

EEO is actually based on Jobs, not Positions and people. You will first need to set up the EEO/AAP codes in T5U13_b. In order to run the EEO report, utilize the following path Personnel Management –> Administration –> Info System –> Reports –> Administration US –> Compliance or by utilizing transaction SA38 and report name RPSEEOU1.

Tags: Compliance Reporting, Configuration, eeo, EEO Reporting, Governmental reporting, HCM, National occupation codes, sap, SAP HCM, sap hcm help, sap hcm news

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