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This chapter contains the following:

Compensation Management Offering: Overview

Using the compensation management business process area, your enterprise can attract, motivate, and retain talent by strategically planning, allocating, and communicating compensation.

Before you begin, use the Getting Started page in the Setup and Maintenance work area to access reports for each offering, including full lists of setup tasks, descriptions of the options and features you can select when you configure the offering, and lists of business objects and enterprise applications associated with the offering.

Benefits
Individual Compensation
Workforce Compensation
Total Compensation Statements
Absence Management
Human Resources Business Intelligence Analytics

Next, create one or more implementation projects for the offerings and options that you want to implement first, which generates task lists for each project. The application implementation manager can customize the task list and assign and track each task.

If you select all of the options, the generated task list for this offering contains the following groups of tasks:

Define Common Applications Configuration
Define Common HCM Configuration
Define Elements, Balances and Formulas
Define Benefits
Define Base Pay
Define Individual Compensation
Define Workforce Compensation
Define Total Compensation Statements
Define Absences
Define Transactional Business Intelligence Configuration
Define Extensions for Compensation Management

Define Common Configuration

Complete these common configuration task lists:

Define Common Applications Configuration

Use this task list to manage definitions used across offerings, typically applying to multiple products and product families. These definitions include enterprise structures, workforce profiles, security, and approval rules, amongst others.

You can find other information in support of common implementation in the Oracle Fusion Applications Concepts Guide.
Define Common HCM Configuration
Use this task list to set up objects that apply to multiple products within the HCM product family. These definitions include workforce records, extracts, and business processes and events.

Define Elements, Balances and Formulas

Use this task list to define elements, balances, and formulas for compensation processing, such as workforce compensation and total compensation statements.

Define Benefits

Use this task list to configure and review benefits programs, plans, and options for participants and dependents, including eligibility profiles, rates and coverages, and life events.

Define Base Pay

Use this task list to configure payroll elements, compensation frequency values, and other data for quoting and paying base pay.

Define Individual Compensation

Use this task list to configure compensation plans, payroll elements, and other data for allocating off-cycle compensation to individuals and tracking compensation history

Define Workforce Compensation

Use this task list to create compensation plans and cycles used for compensating a group of workers. Configure the type of compensation allocated, the information displayed to managers, whether budgeting is used, eligibility criteria for the plan or component, and the approval hierarchy.

Define Total Compensation Statements

Use this task list to configure the design, content, and delivery of a compensation statement that includes nontraditional forms of pay such as fringe benefits, cost of benefits, and paid time off, in addition to traditional forms of pay such as base pay and variable compensation.

Define Absences

Use this task list to manage the definitions required for recording and processing absences, accruals, and entitlement plans.

Define Transactional Business Intelligence Configuration

Use this task list to configure Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence for ad hoc reporting, including managing the repository, connections, presentation catalog, and currency type display.

Define Extensions for Compensation Management

Use this task list to define extensions such as custom Oracle Enterprise Scheduler jobs.

You can also customize and extend applications using other tools. For more information, see the Oracle Fusion Applications Extensibility Guide.

Manage Application Implementation

Manage Application Implementation: Overview

The Manage Applications Implementation business process enables rapid and efficient planning, configuration, implementation, deployment, and ongoing maintenance of Oracle Fusion applications through self-service administration.

The Setup and Maintenance work area offers you the following benefits:

Prepackaged lists of implementation tasks
Task lists can be easily configured and extended to better fit with business requirements. Auto-generated, sequential task lists include prerequisites and address dependencies to give full visibility to end-to-end setup requirements of Oracle Fusion applications.
Rapid start
Specific implementations can become templates to facilitate reuse and rapid-start of consistent Oracle Fusion applications setup across many instances.
Comprehensive reporting
A set of built-in reports helps to analyze, validate and audit configurations, implementations, and setup data of Oracle Fusion applications.

With Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager you can:

Learn about and analyze implementation requirements.
Configure Oracle Fusion applications to match your business needs.
Get complete visibility to setup requirements through guided, sequential task lists downloadable into Excel for project planning.
Enter setup data through easy-to-use user interfaces available directly from the task lists.
Export and import data from one instance to another for rapid setup.
Validate setup by reviewing setup data reports.
Implement all Oracle Fusion applications through a standard and consistent process.

There are several documentation resources available for learning how to configure Oracle Fusion Applications.

Information Technology Management, Implement Applications Developer Guide
Common Implementation Guide
Customer Data Management Implementation Guide
Enterprise Contracts Implementation Guide
Marketing Implementation Guide
Sales Implementation Guide
Fusion Accounting Hub Implementation Guide
Financials Implementation Guide
Compensation Management Implementation Guide
Workforce Deployment Implementation Guide
Workforce Development Implementation Guide
Incentive Compensation Implementation Guide
Procurement Implementation Guide
P6 EPPM Administrator's Guide for an Oracle Database
P6 EPPM Administrator's Guide for MicroSoft SQL Server Database

Implementation Projects: Explained

An implementation project is the list of setup tasks you need to complete to implement selected offerings and options. You create a project by selecting the offerings and options you want to implement together. You manage the project as a unit throughout the implementation lifecycle. You can assign these tasks to users and track their completion using the included project management tools.

Maintaining Setup Data

You can also create an implementation project to maintain the setup of specific business processes and activities. In this case, you select specific setup task lists and tasks

Exporting and Importing

Implementation projects are also the foundation for setup export and import. You use them to identify which business objects, and consequently setup data, you will export or import and in which order.

Selecting Offerings

When creating an implementation project you see the list of offerings and options that are configured for implementation. Implementation managers specify which of those offerings and options to include in an implementation project. There are no hard and fast rules for how many offerings you should include in one implementation project. The implementation manager should decide based on how they plan to manage their implementations. For example, if you will implement and deploy different offerings at different times, then having separate implementation projects will make it easier to manage the implementation life cycles. Furthermore, the more offerings you included in an implementation project, the bigger the generated task list will be. This is because the implementation task list includes all setup tasks needed to implement all included offerings. Alternatively, segmenting into multiple implementation projects makes the process easier to manage.

Offerings: Explained

Offerings are application solution sets representing one or more business processes and activities that you typically provision and implement as a unit. They are, therefore, the primary drivers of functional setup of Oracle Fusion applications. Some of the examples of offerings are Financials, Procurement, Sales, Marketing, Order Orchestration, and Workforce Deployment. An offering may have one or more options or feature choices.

Implementation Task Lists

The configuration of the offerings will determine how the list of setup tasks is generated during the implementation phase. Only the setup tasks needed to implement the selected offerings, options and features will be included in the task list, giving you a targeted, clutter-free task list necessary to meet your implementation requirements.

Enabling Offerings

Offerings and their options are presented in an expandable and collapsible hierarchy to facilitate progressive decision making when specifying whether or not an enterprise plans to implement them. An offering or its options can either be selected or not be selected for implementation. Implementation managers decide which offerings to enable.

Provisioning Offerings

The Provisioned column on the Configure Offerings page shows whether or not an offering is provisioned. While you are not prevented from configuring offerings that have not been provisioned, ultimately the users are not able to perform the tasks needed to enter setup data for those offerings until appropriate enterprise applications (Java EE applications) are provisioned and their location (end point URLs) is registered.

Options: Explained

Each offering in general includes a set of standard functionality and a set of optional modules, which are called options. For example, in addition to standard Opportunity Management, the Sales offering includes optional functionality such as Sales Catalog, Sales Forecasting, Sales Prediction Engine, and Outlook Integration. These optional functions may not be relevant to all application implementations. Because these are subprocesses within an offering, you do not always implement options that are not core to the standard transactions of the offering.

Feature Choices: Explained

Offerings include optional or alternative business rules or processes called feature choices. You make feature selections according to your business requirements to get the best fit with the offering. If the selected offerings and options have dependent features then those features are applicable when you implement the corresponding offering or option. In general, the features are set with a default configuration based on their typical usage in most implementations. However, you should always review the available feature choices for their selected offerings and options and configure them as appropriate for the implementation.

You can configure feature choices in three different ways:

Yes or No

If a feature can either be applicable or not be applicable to an implementation, a single checkbox is presented for selection. Check or uncheck to specify yes or no respectively.

Single Select

If a feature has multiple choices but only one can be applicable to an implementation, multiple choices are presented as radio buttons. You can turn on only one of those choices.

Multi-Select

If the feature has multiple choices but one or more can be applicable to an implementation then all choices are presented with a checkbox. Select all that apply by checking the appropriate choices.