RE: Mapics 5.5 Payroll ver. ADP -- MAPICS-L

We are running MAPICS 5.0 PR and have been since November of '99.
Initially, the calcs and reports took a looong time to run (45 minutes for
300 employees) so Payroll was always up against the time crunch to get out
the checks.  MAPICS support said that a few companies mentioned that they
experienced the same problem but it couldn't be narrowed down.  It ended up
being our model 300.  We upgraded ,for several reasons, to a 720 and it
flies! Calcs take 5 minutes now.  But anyway, we find that it is a very
adequate P/R system for our needs and we have some varied needs.  We have
the standard salary and hourly but we also have piecework employees
(homegrown code and offline file loads), Medicare reimbursements and some
special retiree benefits that are all processed through MAPICS.  We did move
4 or 5 of our highly paid people out to ADP but there is no interface setup.
But 401k, direct deposit, tax tables, etc all work well.  We were lucky
enough to have a consultant with tons of MAPICS P/R experience on hand when
we installed it and she helped us with some of the functionality that just
isn't very apparent from reading the manuals.

Ed Chabot
The Marlin Firearms Company
100 Kenna Drive
North Haven, CT 06473
(203)985-3254

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapics-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-mapics-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of David Shaw
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 9:17 PM
To: MAPICS-L
Subject: Mapics 5.5 Payroll ver. ADP


Forwarded by moderator on behalf of Richard Bryant <rbryant@quipp.com>:
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Hi Group,

Our HR person believes that MAPICS payroll is no good and wants to replace
it with ADP. I know that MAPICS payroll might have some minor drawbacks but
do not believe we should shut it down and go with an outside payroll
processing company. It seems that no one has been trained on MAPICS payroll
and the information on how to process payroll has been handed down from the
last three employees over the past 18 months. We are also tracking time via
data collectors and updating payroll automatically via PCM and an in house
developed program. I have also suggested that we look into an HR package
from Optimum Solutions as an add on to give the HR person the tools she may
need.

Two questions:

1) Is anyone using a payroll processing company with MAPICS installed and if
so, which one?

2) What are your feelings about MAPICS payroll?


Richard Bryant
Quipp Systems Inc.
IS Coordinator
Microsoft Certified Professional
rbryant@quipp.com



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