Understanding Processing Elements

Global Payroll enables you to define payroll, absence take, and absence entitlement processes. To set up processing:

1. Create sections, which are logical groups of elements that are resolved during a payroll or absence run.

2. Add the sections to a process list that identifies the sequence and conditions under which each section of elements is resolved.

   You can create any number of process lists, but separate lists are required for payroll and absences processes.

3. Attach each process list to a calendar, by associating the process list with a run type.

4. Schedule the calendars for processing.

To run a payroll or absence process, run the process that you defined. The Process List Manager program starts at the top of the process list and, for each payee, works with the PIN Manager to resolve elements sequentially in each process list section. The system creates a set of files and tables to hold the processing results.