Re: HR/Payroll Systems

With our current hr/payroll system for the past 60 pay cycles (2+ Years)
I have been here, there have been no missed paydays, late checks or
major screw ups and definitely no system (i) down time. I will indeed
keep track of the new systems record.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 1:30 PM
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Payday gets especially interesting if you're a union shop where the
contract
allows for work stoppages if the checks are not delivered by a certain
time.

Heck, I've seen contracts that called for the guys to get paid in cash.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
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Ah, happiness is being able to count on actually getting paid without
waiting for your system to be fixed.

The other side of this coin is that payroll software systems are
maintenance intensive from a development perspective. Unless you are a
payroll systems software company or have sufficient expertise on staff,
they can be cost prohibitive. Consider that if you have customers who
could
be located anywhere or may have employees located anywhere, just keeping
up
with the tax law changes across 50 states, the fed, and Canada can be a
full time job.

My last employer was a ERP vendor specializing in mid size manufacturing
-
we were down to around 70 customers who had the payroll module. We
offered
a free interface to ADP or Business Pro and the like for anyone who
would
stop using payroll in the hopes that we could get out of the PR
business.



Kevin Brake, MSSE
Applications and Business Analyst - Enterprise Solutions
Information & Technology Services
City of Goodyear
190 N. Litchfield Rd.
Goodyear, AZ 85338
623-882-7857
623-882-7858 (Fax)
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Well of Course HR/Payroll have no clue and it will be up to I.T. to bail
them out. Hopefully our I.T. VP and Director will have some sensible
input but HR/Payroll is convinced it must change to make their lives
easier and employees happier?


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
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Ah... well when giving them a price, make sure to add in the months of
work
to convert over. If this is a Windows solution, make sure to add in the
cost
of downtime. Then price out the cost of your programmers (if you have
that
skill set) to write a web front-end to whatever they want.

>From what I have heard about Lawson on Windows AND Unix, it isn't as
stable
as it is on the System i. I can't say for sure with any other system,
but I
could only imagine similar problems with large and complex payroll
systems.

On Dec 31, 2007 9:42 AM, Leibowitz, Larry
<Larry.Leibowitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

That's exactly it Mike. Being we are a Small/Medium Size Company with
about 125 Corporate Employees and roughly 1000 Branch Employees and I

am

not quite sure of our annual Corporate Income since we a privately

owned

and I am not privy to that information. We currently use one of the
vendors mentioned below and they are indeed too pricy for us to enable
their Self Service/Web Enabled offering. So on to a Windows Based/SQL
Server Type of product HR/Payroll will lead us into. The gist of this

is

exactly what Paul has eluded to "HR was enamored with being able to

use

a mouse".

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
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They could do stuff like request vacation, see their check stubs,
request
changes to address, deductions, direct deposits. Basic stuff, but

items

that
take up a lot of payrolls time in large companies.

Infinium (or SSA Global) and Lawson Software had some decent

solutions,

but
you might find that while your package is quite expensive, moving to a
new
application will be more so. Possibly system upgrades as well.

Depending on your shop, maybe you just want to write it yourself.

On Dec 31, 2007 9:19 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am curious as to what the employee could self service? Don't

assume

anything. Like, if their name doesn't match their Social Security

card

EXACTLY when you send in your W2 information electronically then you

could

be fined $50/W2. At least that's the way it was back in the dark

ages

when I worked on the payroll system. Must be somewhat still in

force

as

they made us drag out our SSN cards not too long ago to verify

spelling.

Maybe Direct Deposit information?
401K contribution?
Income tax deduction?
List of dependents?
Emergency contact information?
Life insurance beneficiary?
Address?
Phone #(s)?

Rob Berendt
--
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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Our HR/Payroll Department is considering moving from our current

System

i Software Vendor to a more Employee Self Service/Web Enabled

Product.

Our current System i Vendor offers the Employee Self Service/Web

Enabled

Product but at a much Larger Cost. HR/Payroll would rather switch

than

pay this cost. Does anyone have any suggestions on a lower cost
HR/Payroll Application on the System i with the Employee Self
Service/Web Enabled features? Other wise it's another application

loss

off of our System i and this does not bode well for me; the System i
Administrator/Application Guy.



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