All pay components appearing in the Spot Bonus when pressing the pencil or the clock

[adriangalisteo]

Hi

When a payment component has the "Display in Self Service" option disabled it does not appear for example in the Spot Bonus portlet, when I press award spot bonus, pay component does not appear if its configuration is not made to appear as spot bonus, but when I press the pencil or the clock in the portlet, ALL existing payment components in the portlet appear anyway, which is not the desired behaviour. Why do all payment components appear in a portlet where they do not belong? Is it possible to solve this or at least have a good reason?

this KBA says is an expected behaviour:

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2270326

But still it does not make sense to me,

What is the sense of adding a recurring deduction or recurring payment to a spot bonus?

How Will payroll receive it, as a Spot Bonus or a recurring deduction even though is been selected in Spot Bonus Portlet?

I still do not find a good reason to make appear there all of the pay components. Is there a good way to explain these to the client that could make sense?

Thanks,

Regards

[JoseJW]

Hi,

This is surely a tricky situation for the consultants 🙂

You can refer to the note below

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2586581

You can edit the permissions in such a way that Award Spot Bonus is available only in the Take Action Menu and the Pencil/Edit icon is disabled . This edit icon can be enabled only for the admins so that you have provisions in exceptional scenarios(one described below). As you correctly mentioned , filtering happens when you press the Award Spot Bonus Button.

Spot Bonus is always replicated to IT0015 in payroll system. So if you have a wagetype linked in IT0014 alone as per the T512Z config, then maintaining the same paycomponent Spot Bonus would give you an error during the data replication run.

There is a workaround provided in the note above wherein you can write a rule to display an error message if for some reason someone tries to maintain recurring pay components in the Spot Bonus section.

I feel that the reason is that in the payroll system, you can have a wagetype marked as both recurring and non recurring at the same time. Its just the T512Z setting which decides whether the wagetye should appear in either of the infotype or both.

But in successfactors ---you can make a paycomponent either as a recurring or a non recurring one but not as both. In scenarios wherein customers are migrating from on premise model to a cloud model, there would be some used wagetypes which are currently used in both IT0014 and IT0015 . But in SF , you can mark it as recurring alone. If for some reasons --decision has to be taken to migrate such wagetypes to SF and not to disturb the historical records, you can manually maintain the wagetype in Spot Bonus section (only authorised admins can do this via the pencil icon as per the recommendations in the note above). For the new wagetypes, you can always have a clear process. There can be a few more scenarios wherein you might need this flexibility. Do let me know you if you have a different thought on this or if I am wrong in any assumptions and it would be good to share such ideas.

I do believe that , there would be some enhancements on this topic in the upcoming releases.

thank you,

Jose

[adriangalisteo]

Hi Jose,

i do not really know why they let you choose recurring deductions in the reucrring payments for eample when it is configured not to be like that. That also happens in Self service, where they all appear but, what is the sense of that?

Regards