R12.1 RUP8 New and Changed features

(For the previous release RUP7, see my blog here)

For 12.1, patch 20000288 - R12.HR_PF.B.DELTA.8 (HRMS 12.1 RUP8) was released in May-2015. New and updated features are tracked in document - Oracle Human Resources Management Systems Readme, HRMS Release Update Pack 8 for Release 12.1 (Doc ID 1989740.1)

Known Issues on Top of Patch 20000288 - R12.HR_PF.B.DELTA.8 (HRMS 12.1 RUP8) (Doc ID 1992029.1)

Key interesting enhancements are:

Payroll:

• Improved Payroll Dashboard, which includes support for pre-readiness checks for AU, support for display of assignment without payment methods, and improved performance. Users can use the extensible lookup PAY_DB_MONITOR_PROCESSES to configure localization specific payroll processes.   When configured, the payroll dashboard displays the list of processes within the Payroll Process Details section under Other Process Details Region of the Process Monitor tab.
• Third Party Personal Payment Method: The application is now designed to auto populate the bank details in the personal payment method of the employees for third party payments using the bank details specified at Payee Organization. For this, Additional Information is enabled for Organization Classification of Payee. Users can override these details if required. (This feature is available for AU and US only at this point).
• New Costing of Payment Reports: New programs have been introduced for costing of payment reports: Costing of Payment Summary Report, Costing of Payment Detail Report, Costing of Payment Breakdown Report

Performance Management

• Reopen Scorecards that are at the Transferred from Plan Status when a Plan is Republished: From this release, when a plan administrator selects the Reevaluate Plan Population option in the Update: Plan Review page and if the application finds that the worker is eligible to become part of the plan population again, then appraisals and scorecards with Transferred from Plan status are reopened so that the previously worked details are available to view and update using the Employee Self-Service or Manager Self-Service responsibilities.

There are no new features in AME, Compensation Workbench, HRMS Configuration Workbench, Core HR, Oracle Labor Distribution, Oracle Succession Planning,

The following modules have new features, which are not summarized in this blog - Advanced Benefits, Oracle iRecruitment (one new feature for OFCCP compliance for United States), Oracle Learning Management (two new features, including ability to create enrollments with a past date for learners in offline synchronous classes, i.e. classroom based classes), Oracle Self Service, Oracle Time and Labor (the integration between HR Absences and OTL Time card is extended to timecards which have OTLR feature enabled).

(For the next release RUP9, see my blog here)

Supplementary Role Information - Configuration in Oracle HRMS

You can record information about any roles an employee or contingent worker holds which are not part of their contract; for example, Fire Warden or member of a workers' representative council.

You enter information about supplementary roles in the People > Enter and Maintain > Others > Supplementary Roles window.

From Oracle Documentation, there are two processes of assigning supplementary roles, depending on whether or not the role being undertaken by a person is an elected supplementary role.  The following graphic illustrates this:

The configuration steps are:

11.       Define a new Job Group, which will be used to group Supplementary Roles.

Work Structures > Job > Job Group

 

22.       Define Job (or Supplementary Role) under this Job Group

 

33.       Optionally, define the Representation Body. This is the organization that the employee is representing.

Work Structures > Organization > Description

The Organization Classification must be Representative Body

 

Then click on “Others” button, and enter details for Constituencies/ Representative Body. The below screen capture shows detailed entered for Representative Body. Notice that the job group selected here matches the new Job Group created above:

 

44.       Finally, query the worker against who m Supplementary Role information needs to be recorded

People > Enter and Maintain > Others > Supplementary Roles

In the above window:

Job Group: Shows all job groups, except the default job group

Role: Shows all roles under a job group, if that job group is selected first.

All other fields are optional

Representative Body: Lists the Organization that are associated to the Job Group

Primary Contact: Indicated whether employee is the primary contact for the Representative Body

Start Date/ End Date/ Confidentiality Agreement Date/ End of Rights Date: Are for capturing various dates related to the role.

 There is another window to capture Elections. This window is not covered as part of this blog.