PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources 9.1 PeopleBook: Manage Base Benefits

Getting Started with PeopleSoft Enterprise Manage Base Benefits

This chapter provides and overview of PeopleSoft Manage Base Benefits and discusses:

PeopleSoft Enterprise Manage Base Benefits business process.
PeopleSoft Enterprise Manage Base Benefits integrations.
PeopleSoft Enterprise Manage Base Benefits implementation.

PeopleSoft Enterprise Manage Base Benefits Overview

The PeopleSoft Enterprise Manage Base Benefits business process provides you with the tools that you need to manage your employee benefit programs. It enables you to set up your basic benefits system architecture and manually enroll employees and their dependents into the benefits system. This comprehensive benefits management solution supports a full range of benefit programs and plans, and provides you with everything you need to maintain your benefit records and to respond to inquiries from decision makers, managers, and other employees.

With the PeopleSoft Manage Base Benefits business process, you can:

Define the tables that you need to build your benefit programs.
Manually enroll employees and dependents into benefit programs.
Print HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) reports.
Track and manage FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) requests.
Calculate accrued leave awards and maintain employee leave balances.
Manage qualified savings plans and pension plans.
Manage vacation buy and sell programs.
Administer COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) coverage for qualified participants and their dependents.
Process retroactive benefits and deductions.
Send enrollment data to third-party administrators.
Send FEHB (federal employee health benefits) data to the OPM (Office of Personnel Management).

PeopleSoft Manage Base Benefits Business Process

The PeopleSoft Manage Base Benefits business process includes four core phases of operation:

Setting up supporting tables and benefit plans.
Building benefit programs.
Assigning employees to benefit programs and enroll them in plans for which their program enrollment makes them eligible.

Note. For Federal users, employees are assigned to benefit programs through the Human Resources PAR process.
Calculating rates and benefit deductions.

If you use PeopleSoft Enterprise Payroll for North America, you calculate deductions through the payroll process. If you use another payroll system, you use PeopleSoft Enterprise Payroll Interface to link the PeopleSoft benefits information to that system.

The following diagram illustrates the four core phases of operation that make up the structure upon which benefit programs are built:

Building blocks for benefit programs

PeopleSoft Manage Base Benefits Integrations

The PeopleSoft Manage Base Benefits business process integrates with the following PeopleSoft applications:

HR Administer Workforce.
HR Report Total Compensation.
HR Company Cars.
Payroll for North America.
Benefits Administration.
FSA Administration.
Stock Administration.
Pension Administration.
Payroll Interface.

PeopleSoft Manage Base Benefits integration flow with other PeopleSoft applications

We cover integration considerations in the implementation chapters in this PeopleBook.

Supplemental information about third-party application integrations is located on the Oracle's website.

PeopleSoft Manage Base Benefits Implementation

PeopleSoft Setup Manager enables you to generate a list of setup tasks for your organization based on the features that you are implementing. The setup tasks include the components that you must set up, listed in the order in which you must enter data into the component tables, and links to the corresponding PeopleBook documentation.

Other Sources of Information

In the planning phase of your implementation, take advantage of all PeopleSoft sources of information, including the installation guides, data models, business process maps, and troubleshooting guidelines.