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June 27, 2020

Certain HR Transactions Will Remain Locked Until Payroll Exits

Effective October 08, 2019 the duration of locked HR Transactions during live biweekly payroll 2nd day processing will be extended. Instead of unlocking after 2nd day live payroll completes, the following transactions will remain locked until after live payroll exits. CATA – Time Transfer PA30 – Maintain HR Master Data PA40 &ndash…

June 18, 2020

Christmas & New Year Plus 2024 Holiday Payment Run Schedules

  The Christmas & New Year’s Day holiday payment run schedule is as follows:   Thursday evening, December 21, 2023 Last regular payment run before Christmas Tuesday evening, December 26, 2023 First regular payment run after Christmas Thursday evening, Decemb…

April 17, 2020

Deadline to Validate Open AASIS Outline Agreements

Deadline to Validate Open AASIS Outline Agreements   Tomorrow, 04/01/2022, the ARBuy team will extract Outline Agreements (contracts) for Round 1 of the Programmatic Conversion of Outline Agreements (OA). The following selection criteria will be used to determine which contracts are converted.   Effective End Date >06/30/2022 F…

April 2, 2020

New Report: Transaction ZFI_CASH_ACTIVITY

A new report, transaction ZFI_CASH_ACTIVITY: Daily Change in Cash Balance, helps agencies manage cash summary balances to ensure timely payments to vendors and supports federal draws. Agencies can use this report to monitor summary totals for daily payments, deposits, transfers, and ending cash balances for funds in Treasury. See the job aid Dail…

March 19, 2020

Hard Error Added to Purchase Orders Issued Against Agency Outline Agreements

The warning message that currently alerts agency personnel that a Purchase Order exceeds the Outline Agreement (Contract) has been changed to a hard error.   Agencies will continue to receive the warning message for purchases made against a State Contract.  This change has been implemented to help prevent overspending on purchases made …

February 29, 2020

New HR Report Now Available

The new HR transaction, ZPAY_OVERTIME - Employee Overtime Report, helps agencies validate employee overtime hours before a live payroll run. The report output displays employee information and total hours entered via the CATS Timesheet, Time Clock and/or EASE. Note: Total hours include both absences and attendance. Additional fields include the f…

February 24, 2020

Transaction ZBCJ (Deposit Slip Printing and Cash Journal Clearing Summary) Updated

Effective September 17, 2019, Business Area is a required field on the Deposit Slip Printing and Cash Journal Clearing Summary [Transaction ZBCJ]. For some Departments, Transformation activities have included assigning deposit responsibility for multiple Business Areas within the Department. As a result, the Business Area field is now required and…

February 15, 2020

NEW EASE Employee Time Statement Now Available

A new EASE Time Statement Tile has been added to the EASE Home Page. The Time Statement Tile provides summary and detail information about the employees’ time and leave entries in one location. Note: This tile is only available to employees’ who currently use EASE to submit time/leave entries. To assist managers with monitoring emplo…

February 12, 2020

Open Enrollment Benefit Processing Dates for 2023

Voluntary products for the 2023 plan year should be created with the payroll period start date of 12/25/2022. This is the first payroll period in the new calendar year. Use Transaction Code PA30, IT0377 (Miscellaneous Plans), to create employee records for these semi-monthly plans. For all employees hired after 01/01/2023 of the new plan year who…

January 29, 2020

Thanksgiving Holiday Payment Run Schedule

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 23, 2023 and Friday, November 24, 2023, the regularly scheduled payment runs for Wednesday and Thursday nights will not be processed. After the normal payment run on Tuesday, November 21, 2023, the next scheduled payment run will be on Sunday evening, November 26, 2023.…