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July 22, 2022

Decommission of Sub-Grant Earmarked Funds

In July 2021, AASIS implemented functionality to allow sub-grant earmarked funds (sub-grant funds reservations) to be created. This process was intended to replace sub-grant purchasing functionality. Recently, a decision has been made to decommission the sub-grant earmarked funds business process and revert back to the previous sub-grant purchasin…

May 2, 2022

New Report: Performance Evaluation (PE) Final Ratings and Compensation

A new report, PE Final Ratings and Compensation (Transaction Code ZPGC_COMP_RPT), is now available. This report can be used prior to the compensation run to verify employee ratings. It can then be used after compensation has run to view employee salary amounts (see below).  The report can be run for Active, Inactive, or All Employees. It als…

April 6, 2022

Human Resource Coding Guide Revisions

The following revisions have been made to the Human Resource Coding Guide: Additions Page 15 – Note: If an employee is a rehire from another state agency, OPM/State Payroll must process the rehire action. Modifications Page 33-34 – Maximum hours for 1.0 compensatory bank for Standard FLSA rule is 240.  Maximum hours for 1.…

February 21, 2022

HSA/FSA Master Data Maintenance Now Restricted

At the request of the Employee Benefits Division (EBD), a restriction has been implemented in maintaining Health Savings (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA). Effective September 1, 2017, Agency Benefit Representatives will initially create the Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts. Any additional maintenance to these plans will now n…

February 8, 2022

Service Contracts

In accordance with Act 417 of 2019, changes to the Technical General Services (TGS) and Professional Consulting Services (PCS) portals are now available. Changes include: The Total Projected Cost fields have been updated to include the new reporting and review thresholds. A new Annual Contract Amount field has been added to accommodate the …

November 14, 2021

Enhancement to Address Entry on HR Master Data

An enhancement has been added to HR Master Data transactions to ensure accuracy when entering an address. Before the Enhancement If City was misspelled while entering Address information or an incorrect combination of City and Zip code were entered, the Tax Jurisdiction and County codes were not populated automatically. With the Enhancement I…

November 4, 2021

New Compensation Differential Report Now Available

A new compensation differential report (Transaction Code ZDIFF_RPT) has been created to provide cumulative totals for all compensation and shift differentials paid to qualifying employees. The report reads basic pay and time differential rates and hours from the payroll results table and can be executed for a specified pay period or date range. Th…

October 30, 2021

Enable Default Address Fields in Purchase Orders and Purchase Requisitions

Enhancements to Transaction Codes ME21N (Create Purchase Order), ME22N (Change Purchase Order), ME51N (Create Purchase Requisition), and ME52N (Change Purchase Requisition) now provide the option to create and save both an invoice address and delivery address that automatically populate in these documents. Both the invoice and delivery addresses w…

October 14, 2021

Procurement Workflow Changes

Due to transformation efforts, a change in the procurement workflow logic was required. As a result of this change, more names are now displayed in the approver selection lists for Purchase Orders, Requisitions, and Outline Agreements. Please continue to select the appropriate approver to release the document. For assistance with creating a custom…

July 19, 2021

New E-Payables Vendor Report Now Available

A new E-Payables Vendor Report (Transaction Code ZEPAY) has been created to identify vendor accounts participating in the E-Payables payment program. This program reads the vendor master records that meet the selection criteria and returns vendor names, addresses, and contact information. Please refer to the “i” button on the transact…