Oracle HCM Update 25B: Payroll
Medium Impact
Feature Enablement
Redwood Features
25B Update Features Covered:
- Redwood Experience
- Process Results Detail – Task Iteration
- Offset Account for Payroll Relationship Level Elements Using Assignment Attributes
- Redwood Experience: Search for a Bank from the Personal Payment Method Page
- Enable Logging on User-Defined Process Configuration Group Enforced
- Payroll Cost Distribution to Projects Using Time Cards
- Payroll Activity Center Notifications
1. Redwood Experience
Redwood features are continuing to be introduced for Global Payroll. This time we see significant improvements for Person Results, Messages Page, Process Results Detail Page and Personal Payment Method.
2. Process Results Detail – Task Iteration
Quick Notes:
To iterate a task within the payroll flow, you must create a flow and include the ‘Submit Another Task’ task in the flow to automatically repeat a task multiple times with a single submission of the flow. Now using the Redwood Process Results Detail – Submit Another Task page user can view the details of each task iteration of single submission.
The Submit Another Task page displays each iteration task results as a separate row and you can perform and review all actions with respect to that task.
3. Offset Account for Payroll Relationship Level Elements Using Assignment Attributes
Quick Notes:
Introduction of a new offset account in the costing hierarchy, this is above the regular offset account of element eligibility. Now we can define the offset account for payroll relationship elements based on employee information such as Department, Job, Position, and People Group. For example, you can now create costing eligibility rules that will have a different offset account for payroll relationship elements, such as Federal Income Tax, to the Natural Account 90001 for employees in Department A and 90002 for employees in Department B.
4. Redwood Experience: Search for a Bank from the Personal Payment Method Page
Quick Notes:
Now Oracle gives us an option to search for a bank using the branch identifier on the Redwood personal payment method page. We can use routing numbers as the branch identifier for the bank and branch when creating a bank account to map with the personal payment method
5. Enable Logging on User-Defined Process Configuration Group Enforced
Quick Notes:
To reduce performance issues, Oracle has come up with an option where users can create a new User Defined Process Configuration group to support logging for processes that were initially run with the default group. The user-defined group should include the same parameters and values as the default group, plus the necessary logging parameters.
From Update 25B, an error message will be displayed when you add or update a logging parameter on the default group.
6. Payroll Cost Distribution to Projects Using Time Cards
Quick Notes:
In addition to person assignment and payroll cost configuration methods to distribute payroll costs to projects, we can now use existing timecard hours in Project Costing as the distribution basis.
7. Payroll Activity Center Notifications
Quick Notes:
The notifications generated by payroll flows related to specific users are displayed below the Actions pane in the Payroll Activity Center page. You can click Show More in the Notifications pane to see all notifications that require your approval or review. You can view detailed information about the notification and approve all the manual tasks directly.
