Examples of Using Consolidation Groups

Post-Run Processing

Consolidation groups facilitate separating or segregating payroll run results for supplemental processing. For most payroll post-run processing, you can use the consolidation group as an input parameter. You may want the results of a supplemental payroll run to be kept separate from those of an already submitted regular payroll run. To use a consolidation group to keep supplemental run results separate from the regular payroll runs:

Create a consolidation group to process the supplemental payroll run.
Initiate the supplemental payroll run, specifying the new consolidation group as an input parameter.

Separate Costing and Payment

You can use multiple consolidation groups to control processing. For example, you want to process and pay a particular set of employees separately within a single payroll to keep separate records of payment and costing.

To process employees separately:

Create payroll relationship groups that restrict the employees.

You can use rules to identify them dynamically or you can specify the employees by their payroll relationship numbers.
Create a consolidation group for each payroll relationship group you have created in the previous step.
Run the Calculate Payroll process for each payroll relationship group separately. Specify the new consolidation group for each run separately.
Use the original consolidation group to run the Calculate Payroll process in one single action and return a consolidated run result for all the employees.

Purposes of Reporting

You can use consolidation groups for reporting purposes. For example, you may want to run the Periodic Payroll Activity Report for a subset of payrolls.

To process the report for a subset of payrolls:

Create a consolidation group to specify the payrolls for which you want to run the report.
Run the Periodic Payroll Activity Report, specifying the new consolidation group.