Oracle Quarterly Release 24D - Payroll Activity Center

 Payroll Activity Center

In 24D Quarterly release, Oracle has come up with the Payroll Activity Center user experience. It lets you quickly identify and resolve payroll errors to help ensure your employees are paid accurately and on time. 

 

With this single view of payroll across global operations, proactive alerts, and the ability to take quick corrective action, you can optimize payroll processing, reduce errors, and deliver on your employee expectations for prompt and accurate payment.

Few advantages of Payroll Activity Center:

• Payroll Activity Center lets you monitor your payroll across each milestone (such as Payroll Calculations, Payments, Payslips, and Accounting) in the payroll cycle. 
• This ensures that all employees with a payroll calculation are paid, payslips are issued, and all payroll costs are transferred to subledger accounting. 
• Payroll Activity Center integrates with payroll processes submitted individually using payroll flows, and processes submitted as part of a payroll task flow.
• It displays information for the latest 12 months' period.
• View the overall, real-time status of your global payrolls, to help focus on what matters the most.
• Monitor the consolidated view of your payroll results across all payroll flows, to help you quickly identify and resolve issues.
• Quickly review any issues using the alerts for these processes: Calculate Payroll, QuickPay, Prepayments, Periodic Archive, Make EFT Payments, Generate Check Payments, Make External Payments, Generate Cash Payments, Generate Payslips, Transfer to Subledger Accounting, and Costing of Payments.
• Use the automated comparison of all payroll calculations results against the results of the downstream processes; to ensure all payroll processing is complete for your employees.
• Quickly identify any employee who's pending further processing. For example, any employee who has a payroll calculation without a prepayment result, or a prepayment result without a payment result.
• Review all results for the payroll period that require attention, such as those in error status.
• Compare the balance or costing information of the current payroll period with previous payrolls, to find anomalies and trends.
• Navigate directly to the pages required to perform corrective actions for a process, such as the View Flows and Person Results pages.

 Navigation:

• Select Home > My Client Groups > APPS > Payroll Activity Center.
• Select Home > My Client Groups > Quick Actions > Show More > Payroll > Payroll Activity Center.

Steps to Enable:

• Process the Flow - Run Feature Upgrade and select the Payroll Activity Center Upgrade Payroll Results feature to upgrade the payroll results. This process creates the required payroll results data, for the last 12 months' period only.
• Navigate to the Submit a Flow task from My Client Groups > Payroll.
• On the Flow Submission page, search for and click Run Feature Upgrade.
• On the Submit a Payroll Flow page: In the Payroll Flow field, enter a name for the payroll flow From the Feature drop-down list, select Payroll Activity Center Upgrade Payroll Results.

• Click Submit.

Security Consideration:

PAY_ACCESS_PAYROLL_ACTIVITY_CENTER functional privilege is available for payroll administrators and managers to access Payroll Activity Center. Add this privilege to any custom payroll role and regenerate that custom role.

Profile Option enablement:

1.       Navigate to the Setup and Maintenance area and search for the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.

2.       On the Manage Administrator Profile Values page, search for and select the Redwood Payroll Activity Enabled profile option. The code for this profile option is ORA_PAY_PAYROLL_ACTIVITY_REDWOOD_ ENABLED.

3.       In the Profile Values section, click Add.

4.       Specify the level at which the profile value is to be set. Select Site.

5.       Click Save and Close.

 Note: You might need to configure profile options and run the initial data ingestion process to set up Oracle Search index for payroll person results, which is the foundation of Oracle Search based Global Search. o set up the index for the feature, select the fa-hcm-person-results index name parameter value.