1. Improved flexibility for garnishment processing by leveraging the Canadian rules-based engine to meet the ever-changing regulatory requirements in the United States. This gives customers complete control over all aspects of their garnishment calculations by providing users more flexibility in defining the applicable earnings and exemptions. These changes increase staff productivity by reducing the amount of manual labor required to compute garnishments, which also improves data accuracy. Business flexibility is also improved.
2. Enhanced integration between Payroll for North America and Time and Labor, including reconciling reported and payable time, payable time status and reason codes, Load Time and Labor filters, and check reversals.
3. Streamlined menu structure for year-end reports for ease of use.
4. We increased the size of monetary fields for various balance tables and reports. The maximum balance amount that can be stored in the system has been increased to $99,999,999,999.99 (11.2). We are also expanding fields on the Paysheet so that you can have: up to 99 separate check numbers, up to 99,999 page numbers, and up to 999 line numbers. In addition we increased the Array Size for selected Copybooks.
5. "Enhancements to the Load Paysheets process enable you to:
- Add multiple source codes for ‘Other’ Source Type via adding new translate values in
Application Designer.
- Added Source Flag on the Payline.
- Load paysheet data with an Excel Spreadsheet using component interface.
- Inactivate paysheet transactions online so that you no longer have to use SQL to update the record.
- Load one-time garnishment overrides.
- Negative earnings are allowed for transaction type “E”.
- Added additional fields ADDL_NBR and CHECK_DT to the PSHUP_TXN table. "
6. "New capabilities delivered to improve agent productivity, enhance application configuration, and enable HR organizations to provide more consistent service.
- Case Management improvements focused on increasing agent productivity and contact center efficiency.
- Better PeopleSoft Multichannel Communications email response management system (ERMS) integration with the Case Management processes including the automatic creation of a case from an inbound email, enabling contact center agents to manage all work regardless of channel in a common user interface.
- Knowledge Management enhancements including rich text knowledgebase solution content, solution security, and searching of solution attachments providing increased search accuracy and relevancy benefits for both self-service and contact center agents, reducing your contact center costs.
- Case Category, Specialty Type, and Detail administration page redesign to make the task of creating and modifying far less data-entry intensive."
7. Usability enhancements to improve HCM user interface and consistent look and feel.
8. Mouse over popup pages enable managers and administrators to quickly see additional employee or applicant information, such as job or contact information by pausing over a person's name or ID.
9. "Enhanced the Retroactive Pay (Retro Pay) system to provide more functionality, flexibility and control for our customers.
- Provide a new configurable, user-defined Trigger Table that allows the user to determine what fields should create a Retro Request.
- Show and keep the history of all Triggers created.
- Major functionality change for Retro on Retro which includes changes to the Retro Calculation. You will have the ability to see the prior paid retro.
- Tightened up all processes around retro to ensure accurate Retro Calculations.
- We have given you links to the paycheck from the Retro Pay Calculation Results page as well as links from the Paycheck to the back to Retro Pay Calculation Results.
- Expanded the Field Size for the Retro Pay Sequence Number.
- Made change to Retro Pay Messages process for better usability.
- Improved the Retro Reports and selection Criteria.
- Component Interfaces will now create Retro Pay Triggers.
- Fixed various reported bug/enhancement issues.
- Usability changes for a better user experience. "
10. (Commitment Accounting) ChartField integration has been expanded to include the five additional ChartFields for project costing. This enhancement provides greater synchronization and integration between Payroll for North America, Financials, and Time and Labor by enabling the payroll system to report any adjustments and allow the data to flow back from Project Costing to Time and Labor and General Ledger. The additional Project Chartfields are Project Business Unit, Activity, Source Type, Category, Subcategory.
