2H 2023 for Compensation: Must-Know new features

[xavierlegarrec]

Introduction

2H 2023 enhancements to the Compensation Module are out on What's New Viewer and we take you below through the most important ones. They will be rolled out to Preview environments on October 20 and to Production environments on November 17, 2023.

 

 

#1 - Custom MDF Fields Import for Variable Pay Employee History

https://youtu.be/U0SBnUzlCjs

One of the best enhancements to Variable Pay in many years ! For links on how to build if-then OnSave rules in MDF objects see here and here.

 

 

#2 - Enhancements to Planner Audit

https://youtu.be/JmqZw6F1tYg

In my view a must-use new feature for all new Compensation and Variable Pay cycles to improve the planner (and Comp Admin) experience.

Note: Standard recommendation columns only store the amount entered on screen. This means that in order for the Merit % to show on Change History we would first need to create a new custom column called Merit % (with formula merit/curSalary) and mark it as auditable.

 

 

 

#3 - Enhanced Compensation and Variable Pay Jobs speed and parallel processing

https://youtu.be/RrkaeogQz5U

• If in our eligibility rules we exclude inactive and external users we can also now unselect them from being added by default to the scope on which our eligibility rules apply which for some customers in specific industries (retail and catering are two recent examples) can save a lot of time. See additional discussions on the HXM community here. If even after unchecking these boxes we still experience long run times (>4/5 hours) when applying the rules or when running Mass update worksheets jobs with apply eligibility checked then we should look at using more variables as per the Did You Know section of this blog or even completely changing the eligibility process by using this way of building eligibility.


• Performance testing after 2H 2023: for a compensation template with a straight forward design (15-20 columns, no hardcoded formulas or guidelines by UserID) it took 35 minutes for the system to create 5,500 worksheets with 42k employees in them. Other colleagues confirmed that processes that used to take up to 12 hours now complete in 4 hours so a 50-60% speed increase.

 

 

 

#4 - General Display Name in the Downloaded Statement File Names

https://youtu.be/fla9a2Umnfg

 

 

 

#5 - Hide Disabled Compensation Module Templates

https://youtu.be/yP1QQNIYzp4

 

 

 

#6 - Eligibility Rules: new category for Compensation and Variable Pay

https://youtu.be/pQEahTlVNtk

This new category now protects compensation business rules from being deleted as long as they are mapped to a compensation template (similarly to MDF rules). It also adds additional information at the bottom specific to Compensation in lieu of the blank Then section of the Basic domain rules.

 

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All the best

Xavier

 

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[mridsha]

Thanks a lot Xavier I really like your content specially the way you explain in videos thanks for this blog

[Romanin]

As always, helpful and decomplicated... Thank you...

[afelipsap]

Hello, thank you very much for the video Xavier, as always super clarifying.

In my case I have tried to put into practice the new change history tool in a test environment and although everything is configured as mentioned Xavier in the video, I do not see any modification data even having made them. That is to say, the "change history" button does appear, but not the data that have been modified.

Does anyone know if this may be because it does not work until the changes are uploaded to the production environment in November?

[xavierlegarrec]

Hi afelipsap

Thanks for letting us know.

Did you make changes to the auditable column and saved the change after Change History was activated like I did in the recording ?

On which Preview environment are you experiencing the issue ? We came across a similar issue on the demo environments we were testing on a few weeks ago where the change history screens were showing fine but nothing was getting logged and it was the "microservice" feature which needed to be turned on at the server level for it to work. We will make sure to check on that and on all preview and production environments once we know more about it from you.

Thanks

Xavier

[MoniqueBaak]

Is there more information available on this release item: Centralized Services Support Integrations with Employee Central Compensation | SAP Help Portal

What are the hand-on benefits for a client?

 

[xavierlegarrec]

Hi moniquebk

This enhancement is a technical realignment for better performance of the EC-Comp integration, it does not open up any new configuration options at this time, just improves the existing features.

All the best

Xavier

[afelipsap]

Hello Xavier,
Thank you very much for your reply.
A week later I checked it again, the data appears and it works correctly.
It was just a matter of time.
Thanks again

[catmoye]

#1 – Custom MDF Fields Import for Variable Pay Employee History

Note that there seems to be an issue with this. If you are using a global eligibility rule and have your History linked to an mdf object, then the Employee History File fails to generate.

If you remove the global eligibility rule then it works.

Just thought i would mention it here still it is not mentioned yet in the known issues

[xavierlegarrec]

Hi catmoyen

We made the product team aware of this issue a few weeks ago when the release came out on Dev environments indeed. 

[xavierlegarrec]

Hi catmoyen

There are hopes that this issue will be patched on coming patch window 2311p6 (27-Nov-23 Preview) following root cause identification as per latest Product team communication.

All the best

Xavier

[catmoye]

Thanks for the update xavierlegarrec ! Fingers crossed...