Setting Up Your Configuration of PCC

Before initiating your configuration, it's essential to ensure that you meet certain technical prerequisites. To prepare for the configuration process, you will complete the following steps:

• Activate the business function (transaction SFW5)
• Activate services for the front end (transaction SICF)
• Activate and maintain OData services in the back end (transaction /IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE)

Before you start checking these initial transactions, follow the steps below to ensure you have met the prerequisite conditions according to SAP recommendations.

Before you start using Configuration Workbench and Manage Configuration App to set up Payroll Control Center, there are three initial setup phases you need to complete.

Let’s begin by checking the system requirements.

Check that your system will support the configuration process. To do this, you will check your delivery level (service pack (SP) Level). Check for the three components listed in box 4 in the image. If you have these components at the required level, you can proceed. If you do not have the appropriate SP-Level, you need to reach out to the person responsible for installing the latest SP to your system.

Ensure you are working in the latest update in Payroll and Payroll Control Center. Navigate to SAP Launchpad and learn more at Keeping your Payroll System Up to Date. Check information about the latest updates according to KBAs (Knowledge Base Articles) and Notes. Look for note 2844033. (To access the link, you might need to register for me.sap.com.)

With business functions, SAP provides self-contained units with new features and enhancements for customers. This allows customers to take advantage of new developments and improvements for various business processes, including for PCC. Each business function has corresponding documentation that consists of two areas:

• The description of the business functions themselves
• The related application documentation

This gives you an overview of which new functions SAP offers with the enhancement packages. It is an introduction to more detailed documentation and helps you to decide whether to use the business functions.

In most cases, there is extensive application documentation in addition to the description of the business function. Keep in mind that some functions are more critical than others.

Carefully read all documentation for the business functions, because some business functions are reversible (you can switch on/off), but not all of them are. You must be ready to make the correct changes based on the documentation.

Let’s start with Transaction SFW5 Switch Framework Customizing (transaction SFW5). Select the box next to the function you want to activate, then activate it by choosing Activate Changes as shown in the figure. Depending on the business function, after activation you can see new transactions, UI application, and/or customizing objects. This check is used for many programs. Activation of business functions not only affects the appearance of new transactions and/or customizing objects but is affects many programs by switching the programs' algorithms.

Navigate to the simulation to watch the full process.

Make sure that you set up system aliases and activate ICF Nodes. SAP has done the work for each of these Services using the Netweaver Service Builder (Transaction SEGW) . OData is an Open Data Protocol used in web technologies. SAP uses OData to make SAP data accessible, for example, in SAP Fiori applications.

You must activate SAPUI5 Application Handler SAPUI5 Application called via HTTP out of SAPUI5 repository, not BUSINESS SERVER PAGES (BSP) RUNTIME. You can use services which help you transform the structures into the internet standards with transaction SICF.

You can find more information about the functions and services in the Help Portal. In the Help Portal, you will find up-to-date details about relevant business functions and services that apply to your work. You’ll learn more about these transactions in upcoming units.

For more information, navigate to Activating Configuration Workbench for Payroll Control Center to see the full list of prerequisites for PCC.

Let’s continue with phase two and activate Configuration Workbench and Manage Configuration.

Configuration Workbench is a unified tool and a single point of entry to set up Payroll Control Center.

You can use following methods to access Configuration Workbench:

• Use SAP Easy Menu → Human Resources → Payroll → Country Version → Tools → Payroll Control Center → Configuration Workbench
• Use transaction PYC_CONF_WB directly

The Configuration Workbench can mostly – but not fully – replace the traditional SPRO transaction to prepare all the necessary settings for PCC.

With the "classic" PCC implementation (meaning without implementing the Manage Configuration) you have both options:

• you still work with the SPRO transaction
• You work with the Configuration Workbench. In that case, you will handle validation rules, analytic charts, and analytic objects.

But, pay attention because both options are not fully compatible. If you choose to work with Configuration Workbench do not try to come back to handle the same objects with the SPRO transaction.

With the Manage Configuration implementation, you have no choice and must work with the Configuration Workbench to handle objects that are specific to Manage Configuration. Mainly Validation Rule Type, KPI Type, and Analytics Designer Type as base objects for the creation of Validation Rule, KPI, and Drilldown / Root Cause Analysis (RCA) via Manage Configuration App. You must create Analytics also via Manage Configuration in this scenario.

Manage Configuration is a no-code application designed to set up and maintain key pieces of Payroll Control Center such as validation rules/alerts and key performance indicators. The Manage Configuration application makes the comprehension of PCC easier and makes PCC configurable for business consultants or for super users.

Changes made in Manage Configuration are transported to the test and production systems. Generally, all changes take effect for process recurrences generated after such changes were made. However, for active and upcoming process recurrences that were generated before such changes, some changes take effect immediately, some only after relevant manual activities such as regenerating process recurrences, and some changes are restricted.

Detailed information can be found at the link:

Important Notes for Updating Activated Objects in Manage Configuration | SAP Help Portal

Now that you have checked your system and activated specific business functions, you’re ready to execute some specific transactions.

A batch job in SAP is a scheduled background program that usually runs regularly without user intervention. The activities related to PYC_ADM_TRANSACTION are mandatory in the beginning of the PCC implementation. Let’s discuss what these activities include.

The PYC_ADM_TRANSACTION report helps manage tasks in Payroll Control Center. Think of it like a control panel for administrative work. For example, you can specify which predefined daemon jobs should be run, at what frequency, and under the authorizations of which user.

Examples of these authorization objects are application authorization (P_PYD_AAUT) and the authorization to schedule a batch job for the daemon user (S_BTCH_NAM).

The lights on the left side of the report are essential indicators.

• Green means everything is good and working fine.
• Red means something is wrong and needs your attention. You may need to configure some settings.
• Yellow suggests that something might be suspicious and requires you to take a closer look. For example, if you changed how often a task happens but forgot to save the change before moving on to something else.

Authorizations act like keys to different doors in the system. They allow certain users to do specific tasks without needing all the powers of a super-user.

The following videos demonstrate how transaction PYC_ADM_TRANSACTION works in PCC when the transaction is executed. The video titles allow you to recognize which topic is demonstrated. Please be aware that there is no separate introduction to each video. All videos refer to transaction PYC_ADM_TRANSACTION