One of your ideas has been delivered from your suggestion.Distribute Payroll Costs to Projects Using Organizations

Leverage the existing power of distributing payroll costs to projects with additional assignment attributes available to create rules summarized for all staff in a department. Department based labor schedules will provide more efficient distribution of payroll costs by ensuring people and assignments get distributed immediately upon payroll processing. This new labor schedule type allows you to use your organizational hierarchy to logically group people and their assignments together.  You can define these organizational labor schedules for:

  • A specific department within a business unit.
  • An entire business unit, by leaving the department value blank.
  • Any combination of the hierarchical nodes, by using the "Include Child Nodes" option.
  • Distributing via time cards for all assignments.

If multiple organization labor schedules match the person assignment department and business unit associated to a payroll cost, it is distributed in a bottom-up order. Starting with any specific department match, then any parent department (if "Include Child Nodes" is selected), finishing with matching the person assignment business unit to any active labor schedule versions.

As illustrated below, this Organization labor schedule type will only match to payroll costs for the department of Biology HE US and will not match to any child node departments within the associated organization tree.

Organization Labor Schedule Image

The business benefit of this feature is the increased efficiency of creating and maintaining labor schedules for groups of people and their assignments. The department and business unit labor schedules will also ensure Oracle Fusion Payroll costs are transferred to projects once an associated assignment is created and paid, reducing the delay in cost capture that can occur when person assignment labor schedule creation lags. The payroll costs can be evaluated and redistributed once a person assignment labor schedule is created.

Here's the demo of these capabilities:

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

Once an organization labor schedule is set to an Active status, if you are using Oracle Fusion Payroll as your transaction source, payroll costs will be transferred to projects based on the parameters in the Import Payroll Costs process.

Key Resources

  • To understand how this new feature fits into the overall scope of payroll cost distribution, review the related help:
    • Labor Distribution section of the Using Project Costing guide.

Access Requirements

To use this feature, you need these privileges (Privilege Name and Code provided)

  • Importing Payroll Costs and Managing Labor Costs resulting from the import:
    • Manage Payroll Pay Elements for Project Labor Cost (PJC_MANAGE_PAY_ELEMENTS_FOR_PROJECT_PRIV)
    • Transfer Payroll Costs to Projects (PAY_TRANSFER_TO_PROJECTS_PRIV)
    • Manage Project Labor Distributions (PJC_MANAGE_PROJECT_LABOR_DISTRIBUTIONS_PRIV)
  • Managing Labor Schedules:
    • Manage Project Labor Schedules (PJC_MANAGE_PROJECT_LABOR_SCHEDULES_PRIV)
    • Manage Project Labor Schedules at Element Level (PJC_MANAGE_PROJECT_LABOR_SCHEDULES_AT_ELEMENT_LEVEL_PRIV)
    • Use REST Service - Payroll Element Definition List of Values (PAY_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PAYROLL_ELEMENT_DEFINITION_LOV_PRIV)
    • Use REST Service - Workers List of Values (PER_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_WORKERS_LOV_PRIV)