Payroll for North America System Capabilities

To configure Payroll for North America you must have a rigorous understanding of the system. How is the system put together? What is its component tables, programs, and pages? What is its system architecture and what is it really designed to do? And, of equal importance: How is your organization using it or planning to use it?

This topic provides some tips for training the appropriate people in your organization with Payroll for North America.

Combine Functional and Technical Personnel into One Team

When you're learning about Payroll for North America, the functional and technical personnel should be in close communication with each other, to the point of becoming a single team. Your functional people know how your business runs; your technical people know how your current system is put together. And between the two groups, they can act as an effective team.

Ensure That Team Receives Training

Make sure that the whole team receives training in the PeopleSoft system, as a team, everybody together.

Run PeopleSoft Vanilla Payrolls at Your Site

Before rushing to configure, or even to formulate a list of configuration requirements, PeopleSoft recommends that you install the standard Payroll for North America demonstration software without changes. Have your team start using the demonstration companies, employees, pay groups, pay calendars, deductions, and so on; have everyone read Payroll for North America Business Processes; run Payroll for North America. In this way, everyone becomes familiar with such critical concepts as what paysheets are and what the Create Paysheet COBOL SQL process (PSPPYBLD) is; what the Pay Calculation COBOL SQL process (PSPPYRUN) does, and what checks are in Payroll for North America; what the Pay Confirmation COBOL SQL process (PSPCNFRM) does, what balances are, and so on.