SuccessFactors Employee Central Global Benefits
I have been planning to write a blog on Global Benefits for quite sometime and finally decided to write today . Let’s look at one of the promising feature of Employee Central – Global Benefits.
Benefits : Benefits are either monetary or non-monetary components paid to an employee . In general there are some mandatory benefits by law and which may vary from country to country ( for example superannuation in Australia and Provident Fund in India etc..) .
Apart from mandatory benefits there are other benefits which may vary again from company to company or industry to industry (for example car allowance, company house, food allowance, fuel allowance , health insurance , life insurance , gift vouchers, service anniversary vouchers etc.).
In EC , Benefits are classified into below categories.
1)Reimbursements and Allowance : These are benefits where an employee incurs expense, and submits a claim, or the benefit is provided as an allowance directly in the salary. Some examples are Medical Bills , Fuel Allowance,Special Allowance etc.
2)Pension : It is a retirement benefit that an employee is entitled to at the time of retirement. This amount is to be paid regularly to an employee, following his/her retirement from service. To enable enough payment at the time of retirement, many employers offer this as a benefit where they contribute a certain percentage or amount to an employee’s chosen retirement fund. Employee also contributes to this. Pension, for example, provident fund, super, and pension fund.
3)Insurance : Insurance plans provide the protection to the policy holder and its dependents from life’s uncertainties or medical emergencies.
4)Benefits-in-kind: These are the non-monetary benefits. Benefits-in-kind benefits are compensation given in a transaction which does not involve cash. Some examples are Company Housing, Company Car, Driver allowance, Long Service awards, Birthday Gifts, Child Birth.
Configuration settings required to use Benefits : Below are the configuration settings required to use Global Benefits.
- Make sure that Global Benefits is enabled in provisioning
2. Add Global Benefits tab in succession data model and import the data model
3.Enable Employee Benefits view in Configure Employee Files ( It is part of Admin Tools )
4.Grant permission to employees to view Employee Benefits page.
5.Import Standard Configuration file using Import and Export Data. Standard zip file contains the standard configuration related to global benefits and
it can be imported from Success Store directly. Select the Benefits and import it.
7.Create required picklist entries . Create Picklist entries such as Payment Option, Car Model etc.
8.Create Eligibility Rules : Eligibility rules define who is eligible for a particular benefit and how much is the eligible entitlement amount for a benefit. Eligibility rules can be simple or complex and it is purely based on business requirements.
Employee Job information data can also be used as a decision parameters to determine the eligibility and entitlement amount.
For example : Director level employees are eligible for Car allowance and entitlement amount is 500 USD for month.
Manager level employees are eligible for Car allowance and entitlement amount is 300 USD for month.
Below is the simple business rule to define the eligibility amount based on legal entity and benefit type. If there are multiple parameters involved in determining the eligibility amount then defining lookup table and querying that in business rule is an ideal option.
Key objects to be created to make it work
Below key objects must be created by administrator.
1)Benefit : Benefit is the main object in Global Benefits and it comprises of below components .
Benefit Type : It defines the type of benefit, for example Reimbursement , Allowance , Pension, or Insurance.
Payroll Integration : If payroll integration is enabled, record is created in compensation information automatically once the claim is approved or enrollment is approved .
Eligibility Rule : This rule defines who is eligible for the benefit and how much is the entitlement amount .
Enrollment Required : It defines whether enrollment is required or not. If enrollment is not required , then the benefit would be displayed in the current benefit section of all eligible employees automatically.
Enrollment and Claim workflows : It defines the workflow to be triggered during enrollment and claims.
Benefit Schedule : It defines the dates such as enrollment valid dates, claim start and end dates.
Payment Options : It defines how the benefit amount is paid to an employee.
2)Benefit Program (Optional) : Benefit program clubs related benefits together . For example Life Insurance and Health Insurance can be clubbed under Benefit Program.
3)Benefit Schedule : It defines the dates such as enrollment valid dates, claim start and end dates and when enrollment starts and ends.
Benefits Overview Page
Employee Benefits page can be accessed through Employee Benefits view under Employee Files.
Enrolled benefit would be displayed in Current Benefits Tile once enrollment is approved.
Life Event / System Triggered Benefits
The employee need not claim or enroll for these benefits specifically. Instead, the system automatically triggers benefit claim for all eligible employees.
Depending on the chosen trigger date, the benefit created causes the system to trigger the benefit on the occurrence of a life event of an employee during the course of employment. These events are as follows:
Occurrence of a Life Event (Marriage and Child Birth)
When an employee alters his or her marriage status to “married” or adds” Child” as a new dependent, the system triggers the creation of claim. Since these life events have no fixed frequency and occur only a specific number of times, system triggers the claim when there is a change to the Personal Information.
Job Based Trigger (Service Anniversaries and Birthday)
There are some benefits such as service anniversaries and birthdays that are based on the events occurring on a fixed frequency, (for example yearly, 3 years and so on). You must configure job-based schedule, for the system to automatically trigger claim for all eligible employees.
Note: Trigger event must be specified for Triggered Benefits and no need to specify Benefit Schedule for these benefits.
Summary
1) Global Benefits is MDF based feature and gives greater flexibility to configure benefits through UI.
2) Documents can also be attached as proofs during the claim process, so that claims can only be approved once proofs are verified.
3) Standard reports are available to check enrollment and claim details.
4) It is not possible for anyone other than employe to enroll for a benefit or benefit program . If HR Admin wants to enroll an employee for a benefit, he/she must use Proxy Now feature.
I hope this blog may help community to get some initial understanding about EC Global Benefits.
Previous Blogs:
SuccessFactors Employee Central Time Sheet and Time Valuation
SuccessFactors Employee Central and Compensation Integration
Very good explanation Ram.
Readers can get some further detail in the Global Benefits handbook on SAP Service Marketplace: http://service.sap.com/ec-ondemand
Thanks Luke for your encouraging comment.
Good Ram..Fruitful Info
Thanks Anil.
Great job with the blogs Ram over the past few months.
Thanks Jarret.
Another informative blog Ram. It is helpful to all having someone share their knowledge with the wider community. I look forward to your next one. No pressure though.
Thanks Paul
Hi Paul,
Thanks for your motivation, much appreciated. I will try to post next one soon.
Very informative blog. Had a detailed presentation on Global Benefits this morning from @deepika.reddy -Product Owner at SAP TecHed .Sending her this link as well. Good job Ram!
Thanks Harris for your feedback and sharing the link with Deepika .
Hi Ram,
Its very interesting and encouraging to see someone write about how they used the product that we built. Yes, Global Benefits is very comprehensive and has a very robust engine to enable customer define pretty much any benefit - allowing them to define eligibility rules, workflows, enrollment schedules.
We have more features lined up like - defining insurance plans, rates and premium calculations, enrolments into health plans.
The product also offers integration to SAP Payroll with allowances and claims being seamlessly integrated to Infotype 14 and 15.
Leaving you all with the video on EC Global Benefits -
SuccessFactors Employee Central with Global Benefits - YouTube
Thanks Deepika for providing us the road map details on Benefits . Looking forward to see the new features soon.
This is awesome - and I was actually looking for material on Benefits.
Thank you Ram!
Hi Ram, your detailed explanation of the Global Benefit is awesome. It guided me to setup the benefits for my client.
I have a question, if the benefit module support import of benefit employee claim history records within the schedule period?
Thanks for advise.
Hey Ram, it has been a while since we last spoke, hope you're doing well. I was looking on some information of Global Benefits and was so impressed to see this post from a very familiar name. Well done, Ram. Keep it up!
Hi Steve, I am good. I hope you are doing well. I am glad that post helped a bit.
Good sharing. Interesting to see the flow of information, what is captured and how it is configured. Very complete.
Ram,
Is it possible to implement Global benefits without using core employee central even though I enable the features for EC. I have my own doubts as its basically need for almost all rules/eligibility to be driven by core EC.
I have an ask where client wants to go live with EC benefits and not core EC first.
Thanks
Subbu
Hello Ram!
First of all, congratulations for the blog, it's indeed a valuable help for community!
I would like to ask for some help regarding the benefits integration scenario. Any help will be great!
When we're talking about an integration scenario for benefits, considering information flow from SFSF to SAP ERP HCM On Premise, using SCPI as Middleware, do you have any idea on how do we handle with the integration? I've found some material about integration with partners like AOR Hewitt or BenefitFocus, but I wasn't able to find a specific document about the steps of a SFSF x On Premise integration for benefits.
Thanks in advance and keep with this great blog!
Thiago Eva
Hi Ram, Very informative. Just wanted to check on couple of things
I have a client who intends to use this but in doubts......