1. Using Project Costing
  2. Manage Labor Costs

Manage Labor Costs

Labor distribution accountants can search and manage labor costs and their distributions using the Manage Labor Costs page. Labor costs generated from labor distributions are available in the Adjustment Controls work area once they're successfully distributed.

You can use the Manage Labor Costs page to:

  • Filter costs that have distributions by using a combination of batch name, status, pay period, project number, business unit, person name, pay element, or award number.

    Note:
    • You can retrieve all project and nonproject based distributions using a combination of the award number and person name filters.
    • You can use the Shift key to select multiple payroll costs from the search results.
  • Analyze errors resulting from the Import Payroll Costs process and delete payroll costs that are in a status of Error, if required.

  • View a static analytical graph for a quick reference to the latest 3 pay periods that have errors in distributions, and the total amount and count of errors.

  • Find the root cause of one ore more errors by using the search filters.

  • Resolve the root cause and reprocess one or more labor costs using the Process Costs option. You can also delete payroll cost that are in a status of Error.
    Note: When you update and successfully reprocess a payroll cost distribution that contained errors, the application deletes the original erroneous records, because they're no longer needed.

  • Adjust a successfully processed distribution using the Process Costs option.

Here's a table that lists the actions you can perform on labor costs in different scenarios across multiple pages.

Labor Cost (Status)

Manage Labor Costs page

Manage Project Costs page

Period Close Exceptions report

Project Cost (Error)

  • View errors

  • Delete payroll costs in a status of Error

  • Process costs

Not available

Not available

Non-Project Cost (Error)

  • View errors

  • Delete payroll costs in status of Error

  • Process costs

Not available

Not available

Project Cost (Success)

  • View results

  • Process costs (reversal and re-import of parent labor cost)

  • View project cost details

  • Perform adjustments except for:

    • Split

    • Transfer

    • Split and transfer

    • Reversal

View pending transactions until the Create Accounting process is completed for these project costs

Non-Project Cost (Success)

  • View results

  • Process costs (reversal and re-import of parent labor cost)

Not available

Not available