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Variance Monitor for HCM

Don't gamble with your SAP HR data, trust Variance Monitor to get it right first time!

Variance Monitor identifies and highlights errors (or differences) in your data providing complete consistency and insurance for your HR and Payroll system.

Variance Monitor is the fastest and most accurate way to compare:

  • Payroll Results, including simulation runs
  • Time Results and Absence Quota
  • PA Master Data, including LSMW and
  • FI Postings Data

Variance Monitor Pays for Itself

  • New Implementation of SAP HR/Payroll: Comparing data from your legacy HR and Payroll systems to SAP HR has never been easier. Analyse changes to fields in any Infotype and differences in Payroll results between your systems, ensuring you go-live with confidence.
  • Support Pack/Upgrading Testing: Compare data between different SAP systems and releases with ease and accuracy. Gone are the days of custom queries and random samples. Check every employee with the click of a button.
  • Period-to-Period Comparisons: Avoid costly mistakes from cycle to cycle by setting variance thresholds and automatically comparing payslips. Analyse changes made to Master Data!
Screenshot 2: All Comparisons Screen
Screenshot 1: Variance Monitor Comparison Types

Easy to Use

Specify even your most complex comparison criteria through a simple rule definition interface. Acting on this input, Variance Monitor generates reports on the data differences with your specified output choice! Multi level analysis allows you to compare data at personnel number level, cost centre level or other groupings from Infotype 0001. For example, you can test the application of new support packs that have been applied to a Test system and compare them against your Production system.

Screenshot 3: Rule Definition Screen
Screenshot 4: Results Screen

Benefits

  • Variance Monitor completely automates the comparison process, where manual comparisons can result in a time-consuming administration burden and can still result in human error, as data amounts can be large.
  • Variance Monitor provides an interface to which the user can define flexible comparison rules according to Payroll Wage Types, PA Master Data, Time Wage Types.
  • On execution of the comparison program generated by the tool, reports highlighting inconsistencies are produced.
  • Variance Monitor reports will enhance and speed up the testing phase of an upgrade process, new implementations as well as operations on a month-to-month basis, such as payslip analysis.
  • Variance Monitor allows the testing of new Support Packs being applied to SAP systems.
  • Analyse splits in Payroll results and PA Master Data,
  • Supports active as well as off cycle and retroactive results during comparisons
  • Variance Monitor's payroll simulation mode allows you to check that your payroll is correct without actually running your final payroll, saving time.

Supported SAP software releases

Variance Monitor for HCM supports the following releases of SAP ERP solutions: 4.6C, 4.7 and mySAP ERP 2004/2005

More information

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