Payroll Control Center (SAP PCC)

Introduction:

The payroll control center (SAP PCC) is a new application that allows you to work within the SAP HR application layer in a process-and-role oriented approach, offering a completely new user experience based on SAP UI5 technology. HR Renewal 2.0, enhancement package 7, delivers the payroll control center.

The Payroll Control Center supports the following two roles:

1. The payroll process manager, who is in charge of the successful execution of a complete payroll process:

The Payroll Control Center enables the payroll process manager to execute and monitor the complete payroll process using a user interface specific to their requirements.

This user interface consists of 3 levels:

• First Level: Process view
• Second Level: Process Overview
• Third Level: Step Details

2. The payroll administrator, who is the subject matter expert in charge of resolving issues that have been identified during the execution of a payroll process:

The system detected that some salaried employees in the current period have a gross salary that is 10% above the gross salary of previous periods. The payroll administrator needs to verify if this is right and eventually correct this.

The user interface for the payroll administrator comprises 3 levels:

• First Level: My Worklist
• Second Level: Folders and Checks
• Third Level: Check Details

Prerequisites and framework extensibility

The payroll control center is a part of the HR Renewal 2.0, so the installation requirements of the Payroll Control Center meet the requirements of HR Renewal 2.0.

HR renewal 2.0 is based on the software component EA-HR 608.

General Installation Requirements:

• You have installed the initial shipment of HR renewal 2.0 as described in the SAP installation note 1881339.
• The minimum SAP NetWeaver stack required is NW renewal 2.0 is based on SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SPS05 with SAP_UI Component SP07.
• You have followed the instructions in the Release Information Note (RIN) 1965563.
• You have checked that your browser meets the requirement as per SAP Note 1866473.
• The minimum SAP NetWeaver Gateway release requirements follow:
  1. Remote Gateway Minimum release: SAP NetWeaver Gateway 2.0 SPS 07. This includes IW_BEP 200 SP07 for the backend Gateway BEP1 and IW_PGW 100 SP4 (for the instance Gateway PGW).
  2. Local Gateway: SAP NetWeaver Gateway 7.4 SPS 05 with SAP_UI Component SP 07 is required, and this requirement is met by the SAP NetWeaver stack for HR renewal. With the SAP NetWeaver Gateway 7.4 the two add-on components are moved to the SAP NetWeaver stack and shipped via SWCV SAP_GWFND 740.

Browser Requirement

Please check the following sources for detailed information on browser support:

• SAP Note 1866473: OS browser support for UI5 application
• The Product Availability Matrix (PAM) on https://service.sap.com/pam. In the search box, enter HR renewal 2.0 for the product version.

Payroll Control Center

In Payroll Control Center (SAP PCC), three standard reports are delivered for generating process steps, process instances and refresh process step instances. Meanwhile, additional BAdI reports are delivered as consultant utilities to configure processes, to monitor each process instance's input and output and read process instance hierarchy.

• Transaction PYC_STEP_GES - Generate Process Step:
  You use this report to generate process steps for a process. You are required to do so before you can generate process instances for the same process. For example, in Customizing for Payroll under Payroll: International -> Payroll Control Center -> Payroll Process Management, you have defined a process Regular Payroll for Payroll Area California and added some site/branch basis verification in this process. You then use this report to generate the steps for this process. In this case, the report generates a process step Master Data Verification for Payroll Area California.
• Transaction PYC_INSTANCE_GES - Generate Process Instance:
  You use this report to generate payroll process instances. A process instance is a process for a given payroll period which is based on a certain process ID which is assigned to a process template.
• Transaction PYC_RSI - Refresh Process Step Instance:
  You can use this report to refresh step instances, such as refreshing background asynchronous activities and recalculating error count for steps dealing with checks on master data or payroll results. By default, the report refreshes step instances with the execution status In Execution and the error status In Preparation on the backend. The front end uses the refreshed data when requesting data. The user can refresh the Payroll Control Center front end to see the refreshed data. You can schedule this report to run regularly for a list of processes in order to automatically trigger the refresh. Alternatively, you can also execute this report for ordinary step instances - independent of their error status (the Step Template base class might reject the refresh if the execution status of a step instance does not allow changes).