Impact on Oracle Time and Labor during Upgrade from 11.5.9 to R12

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Sasikanth SamudralaSierra Atlantic, Inc.

26th February, 2010

Agenda

� About Sierra Atlantic� Introduction� Business Processes and Scenarios - Impact� SummarySummary� Q & A

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About Sierra Atlantic

� World class global delivery model for IT services

� Deep focus in enterprise applications,business process integration andoutsourced product development sinceinception

� 2200+ employees worldwide� Over 200 active customers across 20

countries� Superior process maturity: SEI CMM

Level 5, ISO 9001, ISO 27001 & SAS70

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HCM Practice

• 50 consultants strong HCM practice with over 200 person years of sharedwork experience and with close to 100 shared implementation, upgradeand AMS support projects experience

HCM

• An actively maintained re usable components repository from projects• An actively maintained re usable components repository from projectsdeployed to pass on the effort and cost benefit to clients.

• Multi Geography and Multi Industries expertise• Quality, flexibility and availability of highly skilled resources

Other Strengths

• Implementation, Upgrade, Maintenance and Support• Scoping, Process design & Re-engineering• HR KPI’s & Reports Factory• Integration and Interfaces with Third Party Systems• Health Check Assignments

Solutions &

Offerings

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Marquee Customers

Customer Logo Industry Geography Processes ModulesService

Offerings

Brunswick

Mercury

Marine

Manufacturing USA, NA

1. App to Hire

2. Comp & Ben

3. Leave

4. Discip Action

5. Griev Handling

6. Separation

1. HR

2. PayrollSupport

Arthur J

Gallagher Co.Insurance USA, NA

1. App to Hire

2. Comp & Ben

3. Leave

4. Discip Action

1. HR

2. Payroll

3. Advanced ImplementationGallagher Co.

Insurance USA, NA4. Discip Action

5. Griev Handling

6. Separation

3. Advanced

Benefits

4. SSHR

Implementation

PowerOne Manufacturing USA, NA

1. App to Hire

2. Comp & Ben

3. Leave

4. Discip Action

5. Griev Handling

6. Separation

1. HR

2. Advanced

Benefits

Support

BigBand

NetworksServices USA, NA

1. App to Hire

2. Discip Action

3. Griev Handling

4. Separation

1. HR Implementation

Marquee Customers cont…

Customer Logo Industry Geography Processes Modules Service

Offerings

PPG Industries Manufacturing USA, NA 1. HR 2. Payroll Enhancement

Clopay

Corporation Manufacturing USA, NA

1. App to Hire 2. Comp & Ben 3. Leave 4. Talent Mgmt 5. Discip Action

1. HR 2. Payroll 3. AB 4. SSHR

Implementation and

Support

Corporation 5. Discip Action 6. Griev Handling 7. Separation

4. SSHR 5. TA

Support

Global Health

Exchange Trading USA, MT

1. App to Hire 2. Comp & Ben 3. Leave 4. Griev Handling 5. Separation

1. HR 2. SSHR 3. Std Benefits 4. Payroll

Outbound

Interface

Support

Mercury

Marine Manufacturing USA 1. HR 2. Payroll 3. Time and

Labour Support

Marquee Customers cont…

Customer Logo Industry Geography Processes ModulesService

Offerings

Welch FoodsFoods and

BeveragesUSA, EA

1. App to Hire

2. Comp & Ben

3. Leave

4. Griev Handling

5. Separation

1. HR

2. Payroll

3. OAB

Support

Introduction

� OTL Upgrade from 11.5.9 to R12� Business Processes – Impact:

� Auto Generation of Timecards� Creating Timecards (Self Service Time and Timekeeper)� Transfer time from OTL to BEE for Payroll run

� Changed components causing impact:� Code changes to PAXVOTCB package� New Attribute in Approval Style Preference� PA: Overriding Approver profile option functionality� Concurrent request - ‘Transfer Time from OTL to BEE’

Auto Generation of Timecards

� Business Scenario� Support divisions/departments time cards are Auto

Generated� Changes to the base timecard used for Auto generation is

restrictedrestricted� In cases where Auto generation of Timecards is

performed for Employees based on Overriding Approverof the first timecard where the Overriding Approver is anEx-Employee, the validation Ex-Employee hinders thecreation of Timecards process

Auto Generation of Timecards cont...

� Changed Component� Code changes in PAXVOTCB package to include

validation for Ex-Employee.

� Impact� Impact� In 11.5.9, Auto Generation of timecards was possible with

Ex-Employee Overriding Approver.� In R12, timecards are not generated due to the validation

of Overriding Approver.

Auto Generation of Timecards cont...

� Solution� Additional query added in PAVOXTCB package before

HXC_TIMESTORE_DEPOSIT API is called.� Query to fetch Supervisor in cases Overriding Approver is

an Ex-Employee.

Creating Timecards

� Business Scenario� In a project based organization, large number of users

enter Timecards through Self Service with Overridingapprover as mandatory to route the timecard for approval.

� Timekeepers with privileges to create or edit createdtimecards using OTL Timekeeper responsibility would betimecards using OTL Timekeeper responsibility would berestricted to editing timecards

� Changed Components� New attribute in Approval Style Preference – Overriding

Approval Style� PA: Overriding Approver profile functionality - Commented

piece of code in PAXVOTCB package

Creating Timecards cont…

Creating Timecards cont…

� Impact� Error is shown when creating a timecard in R12, if the

Overriding Approval Style preference does not have avalue.

� In 11.5.9, Overriding Approver was mandatory, if� Profiles PA: Overriding Approver is set to ‘Yes’ and PA:

AutoApprove Time sheets is set to ‘No’� Overriding Approver preference for Self Service is set to ‘Yes’

� In R12, it is not mandatory with above setups

Creating Timecards cont…

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Creating Timecards cont…

� Solution� Enter a value for Overriding Approval Style Approval Style

Preference

� Customize PAXVOTCB package to undo comments

Transfer time from OTL to BEE

� Business Scenario� Timecard based Oracle Payroll processing� Standard request ‘Transfer Time from OTL to BEE’

integrates OTL with Payroll� Time is transferred to BEE one day before the Payroll run� Time is transferred to BEE one day before the Payroll run� Any retro changes to the transferred timecards are again

transferred on the same day to avoid delays in Payroll run

� Changed Component� ‘Transfer Time from OTL to BEE’ – Retro changes cannot

be transferred on the same day.

Transfer time from OTL to BEE cont…

� Impact� In 11.5.9, retro changes to timecards transferred to BEE

could be performed by running the process ‘Transfer Timefrom OTL to BEE’ on the same day.

� In R12, ‘Transfer Time from OTL to BEE’ to be run on thenext day for the retro changes to be reflected in timecardsfor Payroll Run.

� Changed Business Process

� Solution� Change Management - Customer to adopt to new

Business process.

Summary

� Beyond RCD (Release Content Documents)� Some of the unpublished changes in versions post

11.5.9 in OTL� No alternative known sources� Reference for consultants in upgrading Oracle Time and

Labor from 11.5.9 to R12.

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Q & A

Contact DetailsEmail id - Sasikanth.Samudrala@SierraAtlantic.com

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