There are a number of major new developments, changes and
enhancements
to the International Planning and Administration
(IPA) product for release 4.0A:
A new application component called Compensation
Management
New functions in and enhancements to the following
components:
Benefits
Career and Succession Planning
Organizational Management
Personnel Administration
Personnel Cost Planning
Personnel Development
Qualifications and Requirements
Recruitment
Personnel Management
Payroll Country versions
For detailed information on changes in each component, see the
relevant release notes.
Compensation Management
This offers a comprehensive method for planning and
administering your organization's compensation policies. It
incorporates:
Compensation Planning and
Administration
Job pricing
Budgeting
Plan Definition
Fixed compensation
Variable compensation
Stock grants/options
The Planned Compensation infotype has been changed and
refined.
Benefits
This component now offers a flexible user interface and numerous
functional developments to enhance your company's ability to
administer employees' benefits plans:
IMG
The Benefits IMG is now enlarged and reorganized to reflect the
substantial development in the component for this release. The
Benefits IMG steps are now more precisely assigned within the
Application Component Hierarchy (ACH).
COBRA
The COBRA component now includes enrollment in COBRA health plans
and payment tracking for these enrollments.
BAPIs
The component now contains numerous Business Application
Programming Interfaces (BAPIs), which allow other application
systems to integrate with SAP R/3 using standard interfaces.
Career and Succession Planning
With the new changes, you can now:
Create and name as many careers as you require
Use a range of independent criteria to perform career and
succession planning
Perform career and succession planning independently of
careers
Define suitability ranges
Simulate multi-step succession planning on the basis of
predefined criteria
Organizational Management
There are a number of new developments, including:
A matrix management tool
Using this, you can now maintain complex organizational plans. The
tool enables you to create a wide variety of matrix organizations,
including project matrix organizations and team matrix
organizations.
A new object 'responsibility'
You can create responsibilities which:
Differentiate the authority profiles generated at activity
groups
Determine potential agents for tasks
There are also various enhancements in Simple
Maintenance and changes to the user interface.
Personnel Administration
In this component, you can now:
Control screens in the infotypes Recurring Payments/Deductions
(0014)
and Additional Payments (0015) via a new modification group
Use a number of new BAPIs
Execute several personnel action types for an employee on one
day
using the new infotype Additional Actions (0302)
Make all references to currency (to accommodate new country
versions
and preparations for the European Economic and Currency Union
[EECU])
in a new HR-specific, time-dependent currency table (T500C)
Add fields to infotypes in Personnel Administration and
Recruitment
Use new extended fields
Define the number of periods for annual salary calculation
in the Basic Pay (0008) infotype.
Define periodicity of basic pay in the "Pay Scale -> Period
Parameter
Assignment" view. This means periodicity is now based on the
period
parameter, and no longer on the time unit.
Access the new user interface layout
Use a new check table (T777D) for HR infotypes
Personnel Cost Planning
This component has undergone changes:
IMG
Customizing activities have been reassigned to the Compensation
Management IMG structure. You can now set additional control
parameters.
Integration
Two new payroll reports RPCIPE00 and RPCIPK00 reflect changes to
integration with Payroll Accounting.
User Exit
The component contains a user exit, which you can use to assign
additional cost elements or change already assigned elements.
Personnel Development
This component - which includes Qualifications
and Requirements and the Career
and Succession Planning - has been completely
revised.
Changes to Personnel Development
include:
A redesign of user navigation
An enhancement enabling you to temporarily change the user
parameters
The ability to restrict personnel development to one
organizational
unit
Qualifications and Requirements
With the new or changed functions you can now:
Group qualifications in the qualifications catalog
Define proficiency scales
Assign proficiency scales to qualification groups
Create alternative qualifications
Use profile views to define profiles and sub-profiles for
object types
Recruitment
There have been a number of changes and new developments in
this
component, including:
A logical database for applicant master data
Applicant activities can now be stored in transparent tables
for
evaluation by the logical database and ABAP queries.
The ability to telephone an applicant directly from applicant
master
data maintenance
The ability to send one or more applicants a letter via fax or
E-mail
General Changes Personnel Management
General changes include:
Enhancements to the basic transactions PP01, PP02 and POnn
Definition of accounting infotypes
You can now generate accounting infotypes to assist in
accessing data from Payroll Accounting
Ad-hoc Query
Use this high-performance, easy-to-use tool to evaluate
data
Scheduling across all systems
Use this tool to evaluate data across different systems and
then
display the data in the system of your choice.
New fields in structural authorization
These enable you to define a time-dependent structural
authorization
Automatic creation of events
Events which start workflows will be triggered each time you
change an object in Personnel Planning.
Enhancements to the infotype copy function
Transports using the object lock
Payroll Country Versions
Changes to the following payroll country versions include:
France
You can now display or print a draft version of Declaration
2483, based on the French infotypes 1600 (Number of training
institution) and 1601 (Training 2483).
Great Britain
There is now an interface from Travel Management to the British
infotype 0222 (Company Car).
Japan
Infotype 0022 (Education) is now adapted to the Japanese
educational institution structure.
Changes to infotype 0146 (Year End Adjustment Data) include a
new field that is displayed only when a tax credit for a newly
acquired or rebuilt house is entered.
A generic function is now available for calculating service
years.
South Africa
A new feature enables you to switch on or off the ID number
check on infotype 2. You can also switch between an error message
and a warning message if the check fails.
Spain
There is now a field for the second surname in infotypes 0002
and 0021.
United States
You can now assign EEO and AAP categories to organizational
units and/ or positions.
You can now maintain the valid workers' compensation
classification codes for the US states in which you operate.
There are enhancements to the State Unemployment Insurance
(SUI) reports.
The 940 Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) form information is
now available.
There is a new version of the Tax Type Statement report.
You can now limit the 401K contributions of highly compensated
employees.