Validating Employee Payroll Data Replication

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to monitor results of data replication to verify success or resolve replication errors.

Data Replication Results

Payroll Data Replication

Data which is entered into Employee Central is replicated to the payroll system. New hire data must be replicated to the payroll system before additional payroll data, such as tax and garnishments, can be entered.

Note

For a new hire, it is recommended that you enable the following in admin center:

  • Country-specific validations for postal address of the home address of an employee
  • National ID
  • Bank account

Caution

You cannot change the data that is part of the replication in the SAP ERP system. The relevant data is mentioned in this section. If data is changed, it will be overwritten during the next replication run.

The replication status for each employee can be monitored via Data Replication Monitor.

A screenshot of the Data Replication Monitor screen

You can find the Data Replication Monitor in the Admin Alerts tile under Payroll Integration.

Data Replication Monitor Scenario

A screenshot of the Admin Alerts screen focuses on Employee Central Payroll and SAP ERP Integration and lists Employee Master Data

Data Replication Monitor

Note

Tip: There is more information about replication of master data in the Employee Central Payroll implementation handbook.

Display Options

There is a wide range of options that you can choose from to display exactly the information that you need in the Data Replication Monitor.

The Data Replication Monitor screen shows that an employee is selected, and information is displayed, for example, the employee's name, the replication content type, the status, which is 'successful', and the time of replication.
  • Choose the employee’s name to see the respective employee file.
  • Trigger replication manually by selecting 1 or more employees and choosing Reprocess.
  • Delete entries that you no longer need for monitoring, for example, because they were created during a test phase.

Standard and Extended Views

Note

If you have Admin Alerts 2.0 enabled, you will automatically see data replication alerts there. Additionally, eligible administrators can assign time-data replication errors to themselves or other administrators.

View Replication Results and Resolve Issues

Training System Performance

Note

We recommend that you delete your internet cache occasionally. This will improve the training system performance.

Emily Clark is an administrator for Employee Central Payroll. To view replication results and to resolve issues, she navigates to the Data Replication Monitor. Emily wants to look for rejected employees, which are listed as objects.

By selecting the related message for an employee, a popup window appears, providing more details about the type of error. For Mark Brown ##, where ## is your group number, the Account number is missing in payment info.

Emily enters the missing data and verifies the result.

Note

The distribution of tasks among responsible persons varies significantly across companies and can be flexibly configured in the system using roles and permissions. In this example, the payroll administrator can maintain employee payment information, including bank details, based on the permissions granted to their role.

Note

The course's practical exercises and demonstrations are based on the US country-specific version. Still, the business processes, process steps, applications, and tools discussed in the course are universal for all countries.

Viewing Replication Results

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