SAP Payroll Control Center is more than just a nice looking way to run SAP Payroll / or cloud based Employee Central Payroll. There is valuable functionality to help reduce the time it takes to run payroll, proactively and visually spot errors and validation problems, as well as being fully auditable. EPI-USE has created a global and local accelerator for the control center, so please feel free to get in touch if you want to see how it works.

1. SAP Payroll Control Center
Daniel Richards

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Payroll Control Center

3. Motivation
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A single framework for the execution
and monitoring of the complete payroll process

4. Payroll Control Center Components
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• Responsible for the overall process
• Ensures correctness and timeline
• Triggers others to resolve issues
• Signs off that all steps are executed
correctly
• Receives worklist from payroll manager
• System assists with findings and
pointing out issues
• Evaluates, corrects, and ensures error-­
free tasks and payroll activities

5. How do these different components integrate?
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6. Payroll Control Center for the Payroll Manager
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• The payroll manager starts the payroll process

7. Payroll Control Center for the Payroll Manager
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• The payroll manager can drill down into the process steps and execute the
individual steps.
The payroll manager executes
the validations and distributes
to the Payroll Administrators

8. Payroll Control Center for the Payroll Manager
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The payroll manager sets up
default rules to distribute the
validation results to the
administrators

9. Payroll Control Center for the Payroll Manager
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The payroll manager assigns
the errors in the queue to the
administrators.

10. Payroll Control Center for the Payroll Administrator
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• The payroll administrators are assigned to the errors they have to resolve
The payroll administrators
drill down to view errors
• The EPI-­USE accelerator contains
over 75 pre-­delivered validations
• Designed with global, country
and local extensibility
• Additional override functionality
• Detailed audit report
• Graphical view to configure
output (planned)

11. Payroll Control Center for the Payroll Administrator
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The payroll administrator
drills down into the errors
to see the details

12. Prerequisites – Software
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Components PCC for Payroll Administrator PCC for Payroll Manager
ABAPAdd-on HR Renewal 2.0 (FP 0) HR Renewal 2.0 (FP 1 – FP 4)
Enhancement Pack Based on EHP 07
SAP NetWeaver® 7.40 SPS 05 with SAP_UI Component SP07
HR Components SAP_HR 608 SP00 or SPS 00
EA-HR 608 SP 00 or SPS 00
SAP_HR 608 SP 04 or SPS 01
EA-HR 608 SP 04 or SPS 01
SAP_HR 608 SP 07 or SPS 02
EA-HR 608 SP 07 or SPS 02
SAP_HR 608 SP 12 or SPS 03
EA-HR 608 SP 12 or SPS 03
SAP_HR 608 SP 15 or SPS 04
EA-HR 608 SP 15 or SPS 04
Portal (optional) NWBC* 4.0 or EP** 7.30 SP07 NWBC* 4.0 or EP** 7.30 SP07
Employee Central Release 1408 - 1411
Browser UI5 compatible
* SAP NetWeaver Business Client ** SAP Enterprise Portal

13. Prerequisites -­ Declustering
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14. Prerequisites -­ HANA
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• HANAis optional, but supported under two scenarios

15. Summary
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• The software is free of charge from SAP but no content is delivered.
• An SAP RDS exists but only delivers a few generic checks to try and educate the
clients/partners.
• You will spend a lot of time to get it configured to be used in a real payroll environment.
• New functionality in Feature Pack 4 of HR Renewal 2.0
• Allows users to decluster only the results that we need for the control center validations .
− For example the current pay period and maybe one period in the past for comparisons
− No need to decluster all results (which will increase database space needed)
• Allows users to store test results and do comparisons against payroll test results and in
the process reduce the payroll window (between payroll release and exit).
− Also access payroll log errors/warnings in the payroll control center
• Automatic start and confirmation of some steps in the payroll processes.
• Show proposed solutions as well as key values of why the validation failed.
• The EPI-­USE accelerator delivers the following:
• Over 75 pre-­delivered validations that has been tested and documented.
• Designed with global, country and local extensibility which allows for solution to be highly
scalable.
• Additional override functionality to prevent transports when parameters are adjusted.