With SAP SuccessFactors 1H 2024 scheduled for release to Production, 17 - 19 May 2024, it is a good idea to have a look at what's in store for Employee Central Payroll.

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Changes for Employees

Assuming you have enabled SAP's Generative AI Assistant Joule, employees can now access payment information or payslip for a particular month, date or year using natural language. The results will show in summary format, displaying the pay date, net and gross amounts. The employee can also access the payslip as a PDF and any payment history.

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Changes for Managers

Four newly supported UI integration cards have been added to the SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone to provide notification to managers about:

• Birthday Reminders
• Work Anniversary Reminders
• Off-Cycle Payment
• Offboarding Tasks

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Changes for Payroll Administrators

Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari have already disabled third-party cookies, and according to available information, third-party cookies are scheduled to be disabled in Chrome by Q3 (2024) with Microsoft Edge following suit. This poses a particular problem for opening EC Mashups in a new tab on the employee's profile page. To allow for this functionality, SAP has released a SAP System Configuration object called Open Infotypes and Payroll Control Center in a new tab.

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Changes for Payroll Support to Consider

Pay Statement (Direct) allows for payslip details to be read directly from Employee Central Payroll and displayed in Employee Central, SF Mobile (Payroll) and via the homepage with the quick action, View My Pay Statement. With 1H 2024, SAP delivers a new scenario in the Cloud Integration Automation Services, making it easier for customers to either enable or migrate to the recommended integration for Pay Statement direct from ECP.

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Auxiliary Calculations has now been moved to a separate tab within the Manage Configuration application of Payroll Control Center and can also now be sorted using the sorting buttons. The function allows you to define custom calculations or logic that can be reused across different parts of PCC such as validation rules, KPIs or a designer.

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New customers can now use the Identity Provisioning service in SAP Cloud Identity Services to create, update, and delimit users in SAP SuccessFactors ECP as an alternative to using the User Creation Report (full documentation to be released May 17, 2024). As of this release, this option is only available to new customers as there is no migration of existing records for customers who currently use the user creation report.

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Other changes of note:

• The Rule Function Get Payroll Area Control Record, previously restricted, can now also check other statuses of the payroll control record.
• To enable certificate-based authentication, it is now possible to download the public key of X.509 certificates directly from within the 'Set up Connection between SAP Payroll and Employee Central' in the PTP configuration report (transaction HRSFEC_PTP_CONFIG).
• It is now possible to replicate Shift Classification data from an Employee Central system to the Daily Work Schedule Class field of the Substitutions.
• The limit to replicate employee's working time to ECP in the form of substitutions along with public holiday class information has now been extended from 60 to 400 days.

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Note the following functionality will be deprecated from 17 May 2024:

• Employee Master Data Replication based on SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central integration to SAP Business Suite (PA_SE_IN) and EA-HRRXX using Boomi.
• Time Replication based on PA_SE_IN using Boomi.
• Arrow-based pay statement integration will reach End of Maintenance on May 17, 2024 and will be Deleted on November 15, 2024.

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Note the following functionality will be deprecated from 20 October 2024:

• Pay Statement (Fiori-like) integration reached end of maintenance on April 1, 2022 and will be deleted on October 20, 2024. This deprecation is valid for SAP SuccessFactors ECP as well as customers who integrate their SAP S/4HANA or SAP ERP HCM system with SAP SuccessFactors ECP.
  

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If you would like to have a chat about any of the abovementioned functionality, or about SAP SuccessFactors functionality in general, get in touch with us!

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Author Biography

Marco Franse is a Managing Consultant at HR Crowd specialising in SAP HCM solution architecture.

Marco brings over 25 years of SAP HCM specialisation as an architect in SAP human resources and payroll for some of the most complex solutions in Australia and globally. Marco’s SAP Human Management Capital expertise includes extensive EC and Payroll implementations within Australia, New Zealand, UK, Germany, and South Africa.