First Half 2024 Release: What's New in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll

[KimLessley]

Hi everyone! Hope you are doing well. Excited to write this blog to cover the first half SAP SuccessFactors 2024 release! Have a look at the “What’s New Viewer” for the full release notes and all of the details for everything we are delivering.

New Local Version – Slovenia

With this release we are excited to now provide the ability to run SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll for Slovenia. This now brings our localized versions to 51 native locales. (See the full list on our localization site with a cool interactive map). We also have five additional partner countries available as described in SAP KBA 3031216 - Employee Central Payroll: Availability of Partner Local Versions. EPI-USE has localized Peru, Vietnam, Denmark, Namibia, and Angola.

Our strategy is to deliver local versions we offered on-premise based upon customer and prospect demand so more to come for localizations. We also have a high interest from various partners to continue to localize more versions.

Slovenia

For more information on this feature see the “What’s New Viewer”

Pay Statement in Joule

One big area of emphasis at SAP SuccessFactors across the suite is to embed activities "in the flow of work" or where it is quick and easy for employees to access. With this release we are happy to provide the ability for employees to use Joule, SAP’s AI copilot, to access and review their pay statements in a simple and conversational way. This allows employees to easily access their pay statement data, such as a pay statement summary including the pay date, payout amount, and gross amount. They can also directly access the pay statement as a PDF and any payment history from active employment. Using natural language, users can ask Joule to display payment information or pay statements for a certain date, month, or year.

Access and review pay information in Joule

Check out a demo video of this feature. For more information see the “What’s New Viewer”

Identity Provisioning Service for User Creation

Based upon customer request to simplify user creation, we have added the ability for new customers to use the Identity Provisioning service in SAP Cloud Identity Services to create, update, and delimit users in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll instead of using the User Creation Report. Note: As of this release, this option is only available to new customers as there is no migration of existing records for customers who currently use the user creation report. This particular request came from an influence request Customer Community Idea 277147.

For more information on this feature see the “What’s New Viewer”

Identity Provisioning

Configuration of Pay Statement (direct)

A new scenario is now available in Cloud Integration Automation Service (CIAS) for SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll: “Configuring Pay Statement (direct) Integration”. The guided workflow contains instructions for manual and automated tasks to enable easy and quick integration configuration setup for pay statement (direct) integration including the required OAuth configuration. This will make it easier for customers to enable or migrate to the recommended pay statement (direct) integration for SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll.

For more information on this feature see the “What’s New Viewer”

Configure Pay Statement (direct) Integration in CIAS

What Else is New this Release?

There are a number of additional innovations available for SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll in the first half 2024 release, including

• Improved user experience for auxiliary calculations in the Payroll Control Center
• Enhancement to allow mashups to open in new tabs
• Enhancement to point-to-point configuration report for certificate-based authentication
• Extension of maximum allowed planned working time replication period
• Country and region-specific legal changes
• Replication of shift classification to an SAP payroll system
• And more

See the “What’s New Viewer” for more information on these features.

Where Can I Find More Information?

For information on release highlights across SAP SuccessFactors HCM, see this great blog: First Half 2024 Release: What’s New in SAP SuccessFactors HCM

You can find helpful material on how to implement our latest functionality in the implementation guide on the SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Help page.

Here are additional resources for those interested in learning more about SAP Payroll solutions

• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Website
• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll SAP Help (Implementation) (Requires ID)
• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Community Page (Discussion Forum) (Requires ID)
• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Learning Journey (Educational Content) (Requires SAP Lea...
• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll 2H/2023 Enhancements