Listing Enhancements and Features in the 2H 2024 Release

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to describe new enhancements and features in the 2H 2024 release

Temporary Holiday Calendar

You can now make temporary changes to an employee's holiday calendar based on the business requirements and replicate this information to an SAP payroll system.

The Temporary Time Information object has a new field Category that allows you to select either a work schedule or a holiday calendar. The default value is Work Schedule. Selecting holiday calendar in the category field allows you to create a temporary holiday calendar for an employee who travels for work. You can also use the same category field to create temporary work schedules.

Employees can now make temporary changes to their holiday calendar based on the business needs. We offer an intuitive user interface designed for employee self-service usage which allows you to create a temporary holiday calendar when on a business trip. For example, you're an employee traveling from your office in Berlin to your office in Bangalore for 20 days. During this period, you can create a temporary holiday calendar such that the local holidays of Bangalore if any, become applicable to you during this period.

Note

The temporary holiday calendar overrides the calendar assigned to the employee in the Job Information section of People Profile for the specified period.

You can select the temporary holiday calendar using either the country/region of travel or the holiday calendar name as the search criteria. The temporary changes are sent to the managers for approval if a workflow is configured.

There are regulatory requirements that mandate consideration of public holidays in an employee's current work location when on a business trip. Employees should be able to create temporary holiday calendar requests for a specified period when they're traveling to another location.

Configuration Requirements

Ensure that you have a valid SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking license and it's enabled.
Ensure that Time Off is enabled.
Ensure that Time Off for Leave of Absence Only is disabled.

Role-Based Permission Prerequisites

As an employee, you must have the following permissions to create a temporary holiday calendar using the employee self-service user interface:

You have the User→ Time Management User Permissions→ Create Temporary Change of Holiday Calendar in Self-Service permission.
You have the View and Edit permissions for User→ Time Management Object Permissions→ Temporary Time Information permission.

Whats Changed

How it Looks Now

The temporary time information object with the new Category field.

The employee self-service user interface through which you can create a temporary holiday calendar.

You can delete temporary holiday calendars from the Temporary Changes section.

The temporary time information object without the Category field.

Technical Details

Reference Number	TIM-44621
Product	Time Tracking Employee Central Payroll
Module	Time Management
Feature	Time Off Time Sheet ERP Integration
Action	Info only
Enablement	Customer configured
Lifecycle	General Availability
Type	New
Major or Minor	Major
Software Version	2H 2024
Valid as Of	2024-11-15

Weekly and Monthly Payroll Time Containers in a Monthly Time Sheet

You can now set up time containers that replicate weekly and monthly time results to payroll for time sheets with a monthly approval period.

We've added this feature to help customers meet legal and contractual requirements.

Configuration Requirements

A Time Tracking license is required and Time Tracking must be enabled. Payroll time containers can only be configured for time sheets with a monthly approval period. You set up time containers in the context of setting up or maintaining flexible periods. To set up payroll time containers, you create a time type group and set Time Category to Calculated Time, Time Container Type to Yes, Time Pay Type to Yes, Period Result to Yes, Base Unit to Month or Week, and Number of Base Units to 1. This time type group is used as the result time type group in a time valuation that calculates daily period results for payroll.

Role-Based Permission Prerequisites

You have the User→ Time Management Object Permissions→ Time Container permission. You also have permission to edit the Time Container object.

How It Looks Now

A time type group is shown in which both Time Pay Type and Time Container Type are set to Yes.

Technical Details

Reference Number	TIM-42591
Product	Time Tracking Employee Central Employee Central Payroll
Module	Time Management
Feature	Time Sheet ERP Integration
Action	Info only
Enablement	Customer configured
Lifecycle	General Availability
Type	Changed
Major or Minor	Major
Software Version	2H 2024
Valid as Of	2024-11-15

SAP Cloud Identity Services - Identity Provisioning For Employee Central Payroll

Identity Provisioning automates identity lifecycle processes. It helps you provision identities and the relevant authorizations to various SAP applications.

We developed this feature to replace the Employee Central Payroll User Creation report. Enabling this feature simplifies the user lifecycle process across SAP products.

Configuration Requirements

To make sure that users are synchronized across all products, check the following prerequisites:

An Employee Central instance is connected to an Identity Provisioning instance and Identity Authentication instance.
An Employee Central Payroll instance is connected to an Identity Authentication instance.

Select which of the following two cases apply to you:

If you haven't used the User Creation report yet, you can enable this feature to replicate user records in the Employee Central Payroll system.
If you have already created user records with the User Creation report, it is possible to migrate such records after some configuration.

How it Looks Now

In the current version, we've enabled users' replication using the REST API: User Management (SCIM) for Employee Central Payroll. Previously, you created users with the User Creation report. Replication of users to Employee Central Payroll with Identity Provisioning and Identity Authentication

For information about managing identity lifecycle processes for cloud and on-premise systems, refer to SAP Cloud Identity Services - Identity Provisioning.

Technical Details

Reference Number	PAY-24026
Product	Employee Central Payroll
Module	Identity and Access Management
Feature	User Account Management
Action	Recommended
Enablement	Customer Configured
Lifecycle	General Availability
Type	New
Major or Minor	Major
Software Version	2H 2024
Valid as Of	2024-11-15

Enabling Certificate Revocation for Employee Central Payroll

If the security of a certificate or its key becomes compromised, it's essential for Employee Central Payroll systems to be informed to prevent unauthorized access. If the configuration of the certificate revocation is enabled, compromised certificates are blocked during a certificate-based authentication provided that such corrupted certificates are already known by the certificate authority.

This improvement simplifies certificate management and helps keep your environment secure.

Configuration Requirements

Payroll Operations will activate the certificate configuration in the Employee Central Payroll systems. For more information about the migration dates for your relevant data centers, check the Knowledge Base Article 0003519603

Technical Details

Reference Number	PAY-15349
Product	Employee Central Payroll
Module	Security and Compliance
Feature	N/A
Action	Info only
Enablement	Automatically On
Lifecycle	General Availability
Type	New
Major or Minor	Minor
Software Version	2H 2024
Valid as Of	2024-11-15

Legal Changes for Country/Region Specifics

In this overview you get information about most important legal changes in Employee Central Payroll. Please refer to the most recent entry in the What's New Viewer

Configuration Requirements

To find more information about a legal change, go to the Announcement of Legal Changes tool and choose SAP SuccessFactors in Products and the Country/Region you’re interested in.

Update to the recommended Support Package in which the legal change is delivered. Graphic shows screenshot of the Announcement of Legal Changes tool

Technical Details

Reference Number	PAY-25856
Product	Employee Central Payroll
Module	Localization
Feature	Country/Region Specifics
Action	Info only
Enablement	Customer configured
Lifecycle	General Availability
Type	New
Major or Minor	Major
Software Version	2H 2023
Valid as Of	2023-11-17

Deprecation of Pay Statement (Fiori-like) Integration for Employee Central Payroll

Pay Statement (Fiori-like) integration will reach end of maintenance on April 1, 2022 and will be deleted on October 20, 2024.

Key Dates

Future dates are subject to change.

Milestone	Date	Definition
End of Development	October 15, 2021	The deprecation milestone after which SAP stops enhancing a product or part of a product. You can continue to use the software, but you should begin planning for a time when it will no longer be available for use. We still fix high-priority bugs.
End of Maintenance	April 01, 2022	The deprecation milestone after which SAP does not fix bugs or deliver patches for the software. SAP continues to answer your how-to questions. We strongly encourage you to adopt an alternative method for your business scenario.
Deleted	October 20, 2024	The deprecation milestone when a feature is no longer available for productive use. You should now be using an alternative method for your business scenario.

We’re deprecating Pay Statement (Fiori-like) integration because the Pay Statement (direct) integration has been available since H2 2020. With H1 2021, the Pay Statement (direct) integration is enhanced with the option to enable additional custom key figures. Pay Statement (direct) makes Pay Statement integration easier as it doesn't require replication of payroll results.

If you’re using the Pay Statement (Fiori-like) integration, please migrate to the new Pay Statement (direct) integration.

Additional Resources

Visit the SAP SuccessFactors Customer Community Pay Statement (Fiori-like) Integration and Migration to Pay Statement (Direct) - Innovation Alert for all the latest updates and discussions.
For more information about configuring the Pay Statement (direct) integration, please refer to Configuring Pay Statement

Reference Number	PAY-8155
Product	Employee Central Payroll
Module	Employee Central Payroll
Feature	Pay Statements
Action	Not applicable
Enablement	Automatically on
Lifecycle	Deprecated
Type	Changed
Major or Minor	Not Applicable
Software Version	1H 2021 2H 2021 1H 2022 2H 2022 1H 2023 2H 2023 1H 2024 2H 2024
Valid as Of	2024-10-20

Deprecation of Arrow-Based Pay Statement Integration

Arrow-based pay statement integration will reach End of Maintenance on May 17, 2024 and will be Deleted on November 15, 2024.

Key Dates

Future dates are subject to change.

Milestone	Date	Definition
End of Development	May 15, 2018	The deprecation milestone after which SAP stops enhancing a product or part of a product. You can continue to use the software, but you should begin planning for a time when it will no longer be available for use. We still fix high-priority bugs.
End of Maintenance	May 17, 2024	The deprecation milestone after which SAP does not fix bugs or deliver patches for the software. SAP continues to answer your how-to questions. We strongly encourage you to adopt an alternative method for your business scenario.
Deleted	November 15, 2024	The deprecation milestone when a feature is no longer available for productive use. You should now be using an alternative method for your business scenario.

Deprecation Details

We’re deprecating the arrow-based pay statement integration because, depending on the solution you are using, there are other pay statement options that do not require the replication of payroll results and that offer a better user experience. Instead of choosing the arrow to see previous pay statements, you can select and filter for other pay statements.

If you’re using the arrow-based pay statement integration with an SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll license, please use the new Pay Statement (direct) integration. The Pay Statement (direct) option allows employees to easily access their pay statements from a desktop or mobile device. You can access them using the People Profile, the SAP SuccessFactors mobile app, Homepage Action Search, Homepage Quick Action, and Microsoft Teams.

If you're integrating SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central with an SAP S/4HANA or SAP ERP HCM payroll system and have enabled the arrow-based pay statement for your employees, use the ESS Salary Statement or the My Paystubs SAP Fiori app.

Note

New features and integrations, for example Joule integration, will only be provided for the Pay Statement (direct) option.

Note

You're impacted if you have chosen the Legacy Pay Statement service to integrate Pay Statements with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll. If you are integrating SAP On-Premise payroll with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central using Add-on PA_SE_IN or ECS4HCM, and you have chosen the legacy pay statement service to integrate SAP S/4HANA Cloud pay statements with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, you are impacted.

Additional Resources

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll

For more information about the deprecation of the arrow-based pay statement, please refer to the following blog post: Deprecation of Arrow-Based Pay Statement Integration
For more information about configuring the Pay Statement (direct) integration, please refer to Configuring Pay Statement.

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central with SAP S/4HANA or SAP ERP HCM

For more information about integrating the ESS Salary Statement into the SAP SuccessFactors user interface, refer to Steps to Configure ESS Applications in Employee Central.
For more information about integrating the My Paystubs SAP Fiori app into the SAP SuccessFactors user interface, refer to SAP Fiori App My Paystubs Integration with Employee Central using SAP BTP Neo or SAP Fiori App My Paystubs Integration with Employee Central using BTP Cloud Foundry. You can find more information about the My Paystubs SAP Fiori app in the following documentation: My Paystubs (Version 3/Fiori 2.0

Technical Details

Reference Number	PAY-27984
Product	Employee Central Payroll Employee Central
Module	Employee Central Payroll Integration and Extension
Feature	Pay Statements ERP Integration
Action	Recommended
Enablement	NA
Lifecycle	Deprecated
Type	Changed
Software Version	2H 2023 1H 2024 2H 2024
Valid as Of	2024-11-15

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