PeopleSoft Time and Labour Insight

Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Time and Labor is a flexible, integrated solution designed to support the time reporting needs of a wide range of business functions, including payroll, financial and cost accounting




Time Reporting Code 
·         Used to track employee time to support administrative and compensation needs
·         TRC type could be Hours, Amount(bonus) or Unit (per visit – mileage)
·         Keeps track of how employees are spending their time e.g REG,OVT,COMP
·         Can map TRC to earning code and advisable to sync with payroll
·         You assign TRCs to TRC Programs, which are ultimately assigned to workgroups. Multiple workgroups can share these TRC Programs.
·         Can clone a TRC Program

Workgroup
·         Group of employees who share identical compensation requirement
·         May include all employees
o   In a business enterprise
o   In a pay group
o   Belonging to the same union
o   Who work at the same location
o   Each employee must belong to a workgroup
o   Must set up at least one workgroup

·         Checklist for workgroup members
o   Same reporting type: exception or positive
o   Same holiday schedule
o   Same TRC program
o   Same compensation rules
o   Same needs for time approval
o   Same association to a comp. Off plan
o   Same day breaker
o   Similar rounding rules

Taskgroup
  • A taskgroup is a group of employees who have similar work or task – reporting requirements
  • Three types of task reporting
    • Without task data
    • Task template reporting
    • Task profile reporting
  • Taskgroups identify the default time reporting template, task template, and task profiles that are valid for members of the taskgroup
  • Some organizations refer to taskgroups as labor classes or labor class rate groups
  • Task: attributes of reported time such as department, product or project – that defines how or where time was spent
  • Task template you specify which task entities you want members of a taskgroup to report their time to (i.E. Company , department , project)
  • Task profile “fill in the blanks “ for a task template. If used, a time reporter task related fields will be completed automatically with the values in the task profile

Schedule
·         Main goal is to communicate work expectations to time reporters
·         Facilitates the planning and compensation of time
·         Compulsory for exception employees, optional for  positive time reporters
·         Provides scheduled information that time administration uses to create payable time for exception reporters
·         Can create automated schedule calendars
·         Ability to accept schedules that have been created outside of the system, either from a third-party workforce scheduling system or another source

Steps in creating A schedule calendar
·         Create shifts - shifts are the most basic building blocks of work schedules and are used to create workdays. You can create elapsed, flex, and punch shifts
·         Create workdays - daily work pattern built with shifts. In most cases one shift = one workday
·         Create schedule templates - schedule templates are sequential patterns of workdays and are used to build schedule definitions
·         Create schedule definitions- schedule definitions allow the user to specify which template or combination of templates will be built into a schedule calendar
·         Build schedule calendars - schedule calendars show the scheduled work hours over a period of time. The period varies depending on your organization

Time Collection Devices
·         Control over how you want the system to collect and send time related information to and from your time collection devices
·         TCD interface provides packaged integration points to:
o   Collect clock and elapsed time from any TCD
o   Send necessary setup data to these devices for reporting
·         System supports scheduling, reporting, managing and applying rules to TCD time
·         You can create a separate group for TCD time reporters

Create Time Reporter Data
·         You can create time & labor employee data in two places
o   During the hiring process on time reporter link in job
o   After an employee is hired on create time reporter data
·         Workgroup and taskgroup are required fields
·         You can also enter up to 5 rules

Security
·         In addition to delivered PS security, time & labor offers group security
·         Optional
·         Ability to grant access to any/all fields on 6 records: employment, job, personal data, schedule assignment, TL employee data and group PayGroup
·         Can assign security by group - permission list
·         TL permission list security gives access to perform prior period adjustments

Groups

·         Flexible adhoc grouping function
·         Time reporters must belong to one group
·         Time reporters may belong to several groups simultaneously
·         Can be independent of workgroups and taskgroups but don’t have to be
·         Certain processes that use groups are security, mass time reporting, group schedule assignment, approving time, time administration and managing exceptions
·         Group can be dynamic or static

Rules
·         Rules templates delivered by PS
·         Can create custom rules using SQL
·         Some sample rules delivered:
o   Daily Threshold          .
o   Period threshold
o   Holiday Rule
o   Guaranteed hours for non scheduled day
o   Approval required
o   Exceptions
o   Default rule

Attendance Program
·         Attendance tracking is an optional feature that allows you to track punch-related attendance infractions such as
o   reporting late for work
o   leaving work early
o   taking long lunches
o   taking advantage of rounding rules
·         The Attendance system
o   reports user defined recommended actions when thresholds are met
o   tracks a history of time reporter’s attendance habits
o   assigns a point value to each infraction
o   uses pre-defined actions or you can create your own

Rules Programs
·         Group rules together in a sequence and give the whole group a name
·         You would assign this rule program to the workgroup
·         Rules have a priority to tell the time admin. Process the order in which to execute the rules - rules with a shorter time frame should be processed first
·         Are the only method to assign attendance program to time reporters

Time Administration
·         A facility to create payable time based on customer’s business rules by:
o   creating rules using objects and templates
o   building rules that warn of exception condition
o   processing business rules which affect a time reporter’s earnings or task information
o   Generates payable time based upon time reported for positive time reporters
o   Generates payable time based on scheduled time for all time reporters
o   Calculates an estimate of gross payroll earnings for all Time & labor earnings
o   Validates comp and leave plan balances
·         Two main components of the time administration
o   Create rules - online tools that enable you to create, compile and apply rules to reported or scheduled time
o   Batch Processing - applies your rules to time reporter data and generates payable time from reported or scheduled time

Integration With Payroll
·         Steps for preparing and running a payroll
o   Run the time admin. Process in Time and labor to calculate payable time
o   Load payable time into PS Payroll
o   Run the payroll process and finalize the payroll run
o   Extract data from payroll and send to Time and Labor
o   Triggers the labor distribution and labor dilution process


Integration With PS Financials
·         Integrate with PeopleSoft projects so you can accurately track the time and labor-related costs of your projects
·         Use commitment accounting functionality with task reporting to track labor costs at the chartfield level
·         Integrate with PeopleSoft mobile time and expense through PeopleSoft expenses so that time reporters can enter time remotely
·         Enable time reporters to report time to the business units and activities defined in PeopleSoft enterprise performance management (EPM)