Resources 

This page provides links to documents on a variety of HRMS subjects.

• Infotypes Index - A list of infotypes and descriptions.
• Absence Types Index - Updated 09/28/11
  A list of codes to enter absences in CATS.
• Wage Type Index - Updated 3/27/12 A list of code and account descriptions for entering time and attendance. You’ll find a Legend in the spreadsheet which describes the information you’ll find on the seven worksheets.       
• HRMS Work Schedules -  *New * A list of all available Work Schedules within HRMS.
• Overpayment Recovery Wage Types - A list of wage types for recovery of overpayments.
• Statewide Variant List - Updated 09/28/11
  DOP created statewide variants to help users save time and get consistent results when running reports.  Specific information has been defined and saved so the same types of data will display each time the variant is used to run a report.  Browse this list of all state wide variants, which begin with "SWV" prefix in HRMS.
• End-Dating - A color-coded table for end-dating various infotypes.
• Agency Year-To-Date (YTD) Updates - Use this spreadsheet to report and track manual year-to-date adjustments for state and federal reporting.
• Payroll Processing Days 1 - 4 - A checklist of suggested activities during HRMS payroll processing days.
• HRMS Leave Accrual and Processing - Information on how leave is processed in HRMS, when leave accrues, and when it appears on the employee Earnings & Deduction Statement.  
• HRMS Accrual Gerneration (time evaluation) -- Procedure to identify and correct Time Evaluation errors after the payroll process. 
• BI (Business Intelligence) Data Crosswalks - Reference materials for the BI reporting application, including crosswalks by InfoProvider that show data fields mapped to source application (object description, technical name, source system/infotype, etc.)

Tips and Instructions for Professional Users
The following information can help you learn more about best systems practices to avoid issues that other system users have encountered. 

HRMS in General                          (Top)

• Yellow messages in SAP provide information about the entries you are making. If a message indicates something you don't want to happen, do not save the change or update. If the message doesn't ring any bells, continue using the GREEN check until it tells you to save.
• Check all dates on your screen. Remember, SAP is effective dated, so dates will determine the timing of any changes you have entered. As you work through an action, click the "green check" after every entry and before you save any changes.
• Run pay simulations after completing any master data updates to make sure the Employee still processes correctly through payroll. To ensure that changes to employee records will process, complete actions all the way through. If hand-offs are necessary to complete an action, make sure each hand-off is made. Use the "match code" to ensure that you select the valid value that best fits.
• Double click on any Error Message (RED X on the bottom of your screen) for information on correcting the situation or finding its cause. If you run into difficulty when working through a question, check your training materials.
• Mid Period Transfers. If transfers take place on the first or sixteenth of the month, HRMS provides a clean, fully automated transition between two agencies or sub-agencies. Moving employees in the middle of a pay period is possible, but requires many extra steps to ensure that the costs of employee earnings and deductions are distributed to the correct cost accounts.
• Deleting infotypes (or actions). If you want to correct a previous change, you should copy the infotype you wish to correct, re-enter its previous values, and enter an effective date for the beginning of the period in which you made the change. 

Personnel Administration and Organizational Management         (Top)

• When Reallocating positions, make sure that the org unit is properly related to the Job then to the Position.
• Use the drop down to move between transactions and still keep the same employee. For instance, when moving from PA20 --> PA30 --> PA40 with the same employee, you can use the dropdown "HR master data."
• When doing a "New Hire" make sure to check in HRMS for existing personnel number, or SSNs, and contact the DOP Service Center to check in the Data Warehouse to see if the person was a state employee, terminated prior to the implementation of HRMS.
• Backing out of a New Hire Action, this will cause a Red Line in payroll. If this happens, you must call the DOP Help Desk to have a Central User delete this PERNR (Personnel No.).

 

Payroll                                          (Top)

 

• Run the Flexible Employee Data Report (ZHR_RPTPAN02) and/or Logged Infotype Changes (S_AHR_61016380) before every payroll to check for any incomplete actions.
• Run agency specific reports prior to a payroll run to make sure all employees are going to be paid properly. When running any report, CREATE variants and reuse them in future pay periods.
• When you change a garnishment, you must change it on both IT0194 and IT0195. These must match before the garnishment will be taken.
• When in "Display Log," Do Not run a Pay Simulation on more then 5 people.
• When creating Garnishments, Do Not use Vendor 999999 with any Category other than "W Writ." If used with any vendor it will error out in AFRS.

 

Time                                                (Top)

• Absences automatically deduct from Quota Balances after they are transferred via ZCAT6.
• If using a 24x7 work schedule (R030) for a salaried employee, you must create a corresponding WT 1223 that specifies hours available in the period. (We recommend against using this work schedule for salaried employees.)
• When entering compensation time for the period in which it was earned, you must enter the hours, transfer using ZCAT6, run Time Evaluation (PT50) then enter the Absence in CAT2.
• Using a 24x7 work schedule (R030) for salaried employees.
• Using "REPLACE" when doing a Quota correction. Unless you truly need to replace a balance use Change, Increase or Decrease along with the option "transfer collected entitlement immediately."
   

Benefits                                             (Top)

 

 

• When setting up a new employee who has yet to select a retirement plan (P2 or P3), enter "2N" as the Plan Choice Code.
• If you verify that an employee is already established in a retirement system (checking the DRS website), you do not enter a Plan Choice Code.
• If the new employee chooses a retirement plan (P2 or P3) – the Plan Choice Code must be completed (2C or 3C).
• If you terminate an employee or execute a Group 1 to Group2 transfer, be sure to delimit the retirement plan, deferred compensation, health and dental plans.
• If in the last pay period of month, you terminate an employee or execute a transfer between two Group 1 agencies, you must do an offset entry for employee (WT 2983 and 2984) and employer (WT 2550) health costs.
• If, during Group 2 conversion, you have employee records that need to be manually converted and set up in HRMS, be sure to select the pretax flag.

 

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