Deepankar Maitra - SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (SAP ECP)

SAP ERP HCM Payroll has evolved into a user-friendly, cloud-based, modern global payroll product that is now branded as SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll. This book is a comprehensive guide for Employee Central Payroll that gives human resources (HR) consultants, payroll managers, and administrators step-by-step instructions for configuring and running Employee Central Payroll and integrating it with Employee Central.

Introducing fundamental payroll concepts, this book explores the configuration of the standard payroll engine as well as new developments for integrating with SAPs flagship HR product, Employee Central. Well cover the Payroll Control Center in detail, from both usability and configuration viewpoints.

Step-by-step configuration instructions are provided that follow the sequence of an Employee Central Payroll project: payroll elements, provisioning, Employee Central, Employee Central Payroll, master data integration, master data replication, and the Payroll Control Center.

The book also covers optional steps covering important new topics in postprocessing with the Employee Central user interface (UI): setting up pay statements, transferring pay results back to Employee Central, and configuring single sign-on (SSO). Our book ends with instructions on monitoring and troubleshooting and a practical discussion on implementation techniques and methods that are essential to succeed in implementing Employee Central Payroll.

While this book covers the steps required to run payroll, our emphasis is on the configurationhow to turn on the features that make Employee Central Payroll one of the best payroll systems in the world. Our discussion is applicable to all countries, but well use US examples whenever the topics touch upon country-specific items.

The main purpose of writing this book is to provide both new and experienced Employee Central Payroll users tasked with configuration an easy-to-use guide that is structurally intuitive and procedurally complete. Additionally, this book is designed to achieve the following goals:

• Provide a general understanding of the complex payroll process
  Payroll is a complex process with many steps and many possible points of failure. It requires many players to successfully configure it. Team members often play diverse rolestechnical, functional, support, processor, etc. Executing ones specific role in this complex chain of processes does not provide them the holistic view that is sometimes required to identify issues and resolve problems. This book is designed to provide both the big picture and the details.

• Bridge the gap between SAP ERP HCM Payroll and Employee Central Payroll
  SAP ERP HCM Payroll practitioners have spent many years learning how to configure SAP ERP HCM Payroll. While the payroll engine is the same, SAP has made some significant additions to their original product and rebranded it as Employee Central Payroll. The original SAP ERP HCM Payroll product is also included in the HR system. With the acquisition of SuccessFactors, SAP moved HR processes over to Employee Central, which is a completely new product that operates in the cloud and requires a different skillset to configure. Connecting the Employee Central Payroll product with Employee Central requires some of those skills. This book will address those skills specifically for components that impact payroll.