Approving a Compensation Planning Scenario and Passing the Data to the Planning and Budgeting Application

Once you have analyzed your scenario output and made a decision that the scenario has the desired results, your next step is to approve the results. A compensation planning scenario can be approved using the Compensation Scenario Approval (WA_CPS_APPRV) application engine process, accessed via the Compensation Scenario Approval page. Due to the large number of rows of data that need to be moved to the target tables, it is more efficient to use an application engine batch process.

Note: When you run the Compensation Scenario Approval application engine process, the system updates the scenario status to Approved. You can reapprove an approved scenario (destructive load for the selected business unit/scenario), but the system warns you that the scenario was already approved for the specified business unit.

Bringing Altered Scenario Data Back from ACE

When you have worked with an ACE model and run the scenario approval process, the system loads the CPS final output table WA_CALC_TGT, with the new information from the ACE Model.

Loading Compensation Planning Scenario Data Into Planning and Budgeting Tables

The WA_CPS_APPRV application engine process also enables you to load your compensation planning forecast scenario data into Position Budgeting tables in the Planning and Budgeting application. Some of the compensation planning information loaded into the position budgeting tables include:

Employee information: such as existing and simulated employee IDs, employee status, business unit, position, job code, department, and location.
Salary information: such as annual salary and annualized earning amounts.
Benefits information: such as benefits plan type and annualized employer expense.

The compensation planning scenario data that is provided to Position Budgeting originates from the following Workforce tables:

WA_JOB_S00
WA_CALC_F00
WA_CALC_TGT
WA_CP_RULE_TBL
POSITION_DATA

The aforementioned Workforce tables load the following Position Budgeting tables:

BP_JOB_F00: loaded by the WA_JOB_S00,
BP_COMP_F00: loaded by the WA_CALC_F00, WA_CALC_TGT, WA_JOB_S00, WA_CP_RULE_TBL tables.

Note: BP_POSITION_D00 is loaded from POSITION_DATA

Once you have specified Workforce tables as a data source in the Position Budgeting feature, simply run this application engine process and the compensation planning scenario data is transferred to the applicable tables.

See Understanding Data Import Using ETL.

The additional compensation planning data provides the Position Budgeting feature with more granular compensation, employee, and salary information, and more flexibility when planning resource changes, such as headcount and salary.

Warning! When loading compensation planning scenario data into Position Budgeting, do not approve analytic models if they do not include current pay; this may skew the salary amounts.

Page Used to Run the Compensation Scenario Approval Process

Page Name	Definition Name	Navigation	Usage
Compensation Scenario Approval	RUN_WA_CPS_APPROVE	select Workforce Analytics, then select Compensation Strategy, then select Analyze and Approve, then select Approve Scenario, then select Compensation Scenario Approval	Run the Compensation Scenario Approval (WA_CPS_APPRV) application engine process.

Compensation Scenario Approval Page

Use the Compensation Scenario Approval page (RUN_WA_CPS_APPROVE) to run the Compensation Scenario Approval (WA_CPS_APPRV) application engine process.

Navigation

select Workforce Analytics, then select Compensation Strategy, then select Analyze and Approve, then select Approve Scenario, then select Compensation Scenario Approval

Access the Compensation Scenario Approval page (Workforce Analytics, Compensation Strategy, Analyze and Approve, Approve Scenario, Compensation Scenario Approval).

Image: Compensation Scenario Approval page

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Compensation Scenario Approval page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Specify the parameters for running the Compensation Scenario Approval (WA_CPS_APPRV) Application Engine process.

Business Unit and Scenario ID

Approval for CPS scenarios is done by Business Unit and Scenario ID, and the prompt list values are from the WA_CP_APPROV_TBL table. you can only run the scenario approval process from this page. You cannot run the scenario approval process from the Run Jobstreams page.

Note: In addition to PeopleTools page security, you can strictly limit access to scenarios for approval using scenario-level security. This means, if a user doesn't have security access for a given scenario, they cannot approve it. If you grant a user access to a scenario approval page and a scenario, they have access to all scenario data within that scenario approval page, to enable them to view all the data they are approving. Therefore, for those operators you have granted such security, you may also want to grant them department and employee-level security for all departments and employees within their scenarios. This enables them to review all the employees on other pages with department or employee-level security, such as the analysis pages.

Analytic Model ID

Select from the list which displays all the analytic models with altered scenario data for this scenario. Leave blank if you didn't use ACE to alter a scenario, or if you wish to approve the original non altered scenario results.