SAP Payroll - Introduction

Integration with Other Modules for Payroll Processing

SAP Payroll module is easily integrated with −

Personnel Administration
Time Management
Incentive and Wages
Finance and Accounting

Personnel Administration is used to get the master data and other payroll related information. By using Time Management, you can get the time related data to calculate the remuneration and for payroll run.

Incentive and Wages data is used to calculate the incentive wages component in the payroll. Wage type defines the daily payroll for each employee and incentive defines the other extra benefits that should be paid to an employee.

Expense Payable for payroll is posted to cost center using integration with SAP Finance and Accounting module. You can assign the cost to cost centers in Finance and Accounting module. Here you can also manage the expense for payroll processing of the third party vendors.

Basics – Payroll

Payroll is based on the payroll driver that varies with each country and region. The payroll driver considers the administrative and legal regulations of the country while defining the payroll. While running a payroll, the payroll driver refers to its corresponding payroll schema, which contains a number of different functions. Each function consists of import data function from internal tables and payroll related files.

The steps in Payroll processing −

A payroll system gets the payroll related data from the system. In case of off-cycle payroll, the system deletes the internal table and imports the last payroll result. The gross wage, shift schedule, and compensation along with the valuation bases are calculated in the system and the master data relevant to this payroll is added in the calculation.

Next is to calculate the partial period factors, salary elements, and to calculate the gross results. Finally, in the last process system calculates the net remuneration and performs the accounting in case there is any change in the master data from a previously processed payroll.

Once this payroll run is completed, the results are transferred to Finance Accounting and evaluation. Then the posting is done for the corresponding cost centers.

Payroll Driver

Payroll driver is used to run the payroll and their structure is based on that particular country’s laws, as each country has a specific payroll driver.

Following are a couple of drivers with their technical names −

RPCALCx0 − Here, x represents the country specific code, like ‘D’ for Germany and F for France, etc.
HxxCALC0 − Here, xx represents the ISO code for country, like ID for Indonesia.

Payroll Schema

This represents the calculation rules used by the payroll driver. In SAP Payroll system, you have country-specific schemas X000 where X represents the country indicator.

The Schema structure consists of the following components −

Initialization

Step 1 −

Includes updating the database
Importing the Infotypes
Calculating gross pay

Step 2 −

Processing of time data from time management
Off cycle payroll run
Payroll accounting of last processed payroll
Calculating time related data and calculating gross amount for each employee
Performing factors
Calculating Net pay

Step 3 −

Calculating the net remuneration
Performing the bank transfers

Payroll – Background Operation

It is also possible to automate the payroll run partially or fully and schedule it to run in the background. SAP recommends a few tasks to be run in the background for better performance.

For example − Payroll can be run in the night and you can check the results the next morning.

How to Schedule Payroll in Background?

Go to System → Service → Jobs → Define Job or SM36

You can define the job here to let the payroll run to process in the background. These background jobs are processed using a Computing Center Management System (CCMS) in the SAP system. The CCMS can be used to perform the following functions.

The configuration and monitoring of this background processing system.
Managing and scheduling background jobs in the system.

How to Schedule a Background Job?

To schedule a background job, enter the Job Name. Enter the job class that defines the priority of the job.

You can define three types of priorities −

Class A - High
Class B - Medium
Class C - Low

You can also define the system for load balancing in the target filed. If you want the system to select the server automatically for load balancing purpose, you can leave this option blank.

If you want the spool request generated from this job to be sent to someone using email, you can mention the same in the Spool list recipient.

To define a start condition, click on the Start condition tab, there are various options that you can use to define the Start condition. If you want to create a periodic job, check the box at the bottom left side of the screen as shown in the following screenshot.

Define the steps of the job by clicking the Step tab. You can specify the ABAP Program, external command or any external program to be used for each step. The next step is to save the job to submit to background processing system.

Note − You have to release a job to make it run. No job even those scheduled for immediate processing, can run without first being released.

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