PeopleSoft 9.2 New Functionality : Global Payroll

·         The Processing Monitor helps you better administer and monitor payroll and absence calculations. The solution provides a single access point for processing statistics, indicating quickly when a transaction may have gone wrong during the different stages of the absence and payroll process. The Processing Monitor enables you to see a summarized picture of the entire payroll and absence process and gives you the ability to drill down to pay group/calendar results at the department level, helping to determine the source of the problem rather than having to check into multiple components, pages, and search records.

·         The banking preparation framework delivered in 9.1 to manage SEPA payments is enhanced for release 9.2 to handle all the current layouts supported by PeopleSoft FSCM Financial Gateway. This enables organizations with multinational operations to use PeopleSoft Financial Gateway as a central point of distribution for all of their payments.

PeopleSoft 9.2 New Functionality : Benefits Administration

• A new Life Events guided process, the PeopleTools Activity Guide feature, allows organizations to configure life events through a sequence of action items. Organizations are able to define life event templates to support end to end HR/Benefits business processes and ensure uniform compliance with business policy and rules.
• Customers can add new life event types in addition to the out-of-the-box event types such as Marriage, Birth, Divorce and Adoption. Each event type can have its own set of rules according to the practices established by the organization. For example, a Benefits Administrator can indicate whether a proof is required for a life event type.
• Customers can create Life Event Categories to define the Employee Self Service Life Event Selection menu (the menu available to an employee on the Life Event main page to select which life event to process). Based on the business needs, a customer can define custom life event categories (groups), and then specify the menu items (life events) within a category.
• Employee Life Event Descriptive Pages have been introduced to guide employees through the activity guide process to complete a life event. A welcome page and an exit page are included, which customers can customize to include descriptive and informative text using the Text Catalog.
• Customers can configure what information should be displayed or hidden from the employees' Benefits Enrollment Summary Statement, a preliminary report generated by employees to review their benefit options. Employee Enrollment Summary Statement controls have been introduced to enable customers to customize the report.
• The benefits enrollment workflow has been enhanced for Life Events. When an employee starts enrollment, remote calls are initiated to prepare the employee's benefit options. An enrollment summary page, subpages and related hyperlinks enables easy enrollment of benefits by the employee.
• The benefits enrollment workflow has been enhanced for Life Events. Employees can complete benefits enrollment through a more user friendly approach using the start page, enrollment summary page, subpages and related hyperlinks.
• The benefits review process has been enhanced. A pop-up modal page is introduced to review an employee's benefit plan. A new preliminary report, the Benefits Enrollment Summary Statement in PDF format has been introduced to enable employees review the selected benefit options. The employee can then go back to any previous steps and make additional changes if required, before completing the benefits enrollment.

 

PeopleSoft 9.2 New Functionality :Talent Acquisition Manager

·         The new Recruiting Home gives recruiters, recruiting managers, and hiring managers a central dashboard for launching and performing recruiting activities.

·         New pivot grids provide graphic views of key performance measures. Delivered pivot grids include Time to Fill, Job Openings Aging Analysis, Job Openings Open and Close Trend, and In Process Applicants.  

·         The Manage Job Opening page has significant productivity enhancements.

·         The Manage Job Opening page now provides graphical related content with relevant information about the current job opening.

·         The Manage Applicant page has been redesigned to increase recruiter efficiency.  One-click actions let the recruiter quickly view applications and resumes, mark the applicant as having been reviewed, route the candidate for further review, schedule interviews, reject the applicant, and print the application. 

·         Recruiting Solutions 9.2 includes several search enhancements.  Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) replaces Verity as the search engine for searching applicants and job postings.

PeopleSoft 9.2 New Functionality : Time and Labor

·         The real-time application of rules from the timesheet immediately updates the employee's timesheet results, which increases the timely completion of the payable time calculation. Users can easily make corrections and resubmit the timesheet to obtain updated payable time for payroll processing.

·         The Timesheet Lockdown feature enables administrators to control whether users can edit or only view time entries on a timesheet. Administrators can lock and unlock the timesheet during critical periods, such as payroll processing, to prevent users from modifying time entries.

·         The PeopleSoft Time and Labor Alerts Framework provides building blocks to automate business policies.

·         The PeopleSoft Time and Labor WorkCenter combines transactions, analytics, workflow, alerts, and reports into a configurable framework that can be tailored to each role-based user.

·         PeopleSoft Time and Labor Overtime Request process uses the powerful Approval Workflow Engine (AWE) technology, which can automatically trigger workflow notifications.

PeopleSoft 9.2 New Functionality : Payroll for North America

PeopleSoft 9.2 introduces Paycheck Modeler, which is available through ePay, Payroll for North America’s self-service module. Employees can use the self-service Paycheck Modeler to investigate their own what-if situations and simulate their own paychecks without updating production tables and without calling the payroll department or help desk. Payroll administrators can also use it. Paycheck Modeler increases employee satisfaction while reducing the workload of your payroll department. 

Paycheck modeling enables employees to simulate changes to their paycheck without updating the production tables. The goal of self-service paycheck modeling is to empower the employee with the ability to make payroll-related decisions without calling the payroll department or help desk.

Paycheck Modeler provides an intuitive user interface, using a new guided navigation in PeopleSoft. 

The employee is able to make changes to their model check by editing or clearing the standard earnings/deductions amounts shown and by adding additional earnings/deductions. Employees are also able to model their check with a new tax withholding status for those tax jurisdictions that allow changes.