We are having to do a lot of manual calculation that we think the system should be able to do on a date range to pay someone retro pay.

I would like to know if there are III party vendors that offer support to Lawson, particularly for year end W2 related changes and interface to BSI. We may have to delay moving to Apps 9.x and will be out of support during the year end of 2012. If anyone has prior experience with such vendors please share here. Thanks.

Can anyone tell me about your experience with the teacher contract module regarding conversion, implementation and functionality  How does it interface with employee positions and payroll  I'm interested in learning how salaries are calculated and paid. Thank you, PaulaB

The table that warehouses all the BN15 information, what table is this in if I want to run a crystal rpt when I hold down my ctrl, shift and O key it shows PLN and the field name but I can't find the PLAN table for me to write a report out of crystal rpts on it. I spoke to our IT group and they can't find it either; they wondered if it's been renamed in the 9.01 version If so, anyone know what name it's called now because Lawson still calls it the PLAN table. I hope this makes sense. T...

We are comparing our HRIS stucture. Currently we have a HRIS Analyst Sr and HRIS Analyst who handle all aspects of our ERP, ATS, and Time & Attendance both technical and administrative. I wanted to know what other organizations HRIS Structures look like. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Is HRIS housed in HR or in IT or a combination What areas are supported by HRIS  For example:  HR, Payroll, Personnel, Benefits, etc. What types of applications are supported  For example: HR ERP, Time...

We are starting a process to track some employee commitments through Payroll and Activity Management. We would like to put the total commitment amount in Activities (35,000) and then run a payment through each pay tied to the activity code. Our goal is to be able to see a running tally in activities. However, in testing, we find the posted transactions to activities come thorugh as positive (expense accrual) and negative (cash accrual) transactions per pay so their is not a way to run a report s...

With the two plans we find that when an Employee is enrolled in both plans (catchup and regular) and he/she makes a mid year change, the limits that are in place do not work.  The max limits start over.  However, we worked on a report to catch these EE's and update their PR14 deduction limit.  We currently have an interface from the vendor to Lawson that creates the new records. My question is, do we have to have separate plans for catchup and regular from a Lawson and BSI perspective.  Havin...

We have roughly 450 employees that have been terminated and we need to change the effective date, termination date and last day worked.   Some employees have had an additional transaction after termination to change their Expense Account as some stores were franchised.  Is there a way to bring up the termination on PA54 and change the information Example:  Employee was terminated with 8/31/11- this is the effective date, termination date and last day worked.  The change in the Expense Accoun...

Hello, On occassions our PR141 and PR197 are out of balance. It is always related to employer portion of deduction amounts such as Medicare, 403b, health, dental, etc. I can find the employees, the deuctions, and the amounts but cannot find the reason for this out of balance condition. Our Lawson IT resources cannot find why would this be and the database looks good. Is anyone else having this issue if yes, did you find the cause  Thank you,  Monika

Hi - Our STD (Short-Term Disability) vendor pays all the STD claims for our 12,000 employee population. Due to issues with deducting correct benefit premiums, we have decided to move to Advice to Pay, thereby allowing us to 'cut the check' ourselves and deduct appropriate premiums. As we are just starting the conversations with our vendor, we wanted to see if there was another Lawson client that has moved to Advice to Pay for STD, and, if so, find out how/if interfaces were created to str...

We are having the issue for employees reaching specific years of service and thus entitled to a higher accrual. Example: Employee started on  July 16, 2007 and by July 15, 2011, employee had already completed the 4 years of services.  Starting from July 16, 2011 employee will be entitled to the increase.  In 2012 employee entitled to the full increase 5 year accrual. We have a quarterly accrual plan structure set up like the below based on hire date: 0-4 years - receive X amount of day...

Has anyone been able to use/create an upload to BN81  I'm able to add records to BN81 but am still trying to get the Release function to work.   Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance, We are having an issue with BSI and they sent me some instructions to create a log file.  Unfortunately the instructions were for LID users and I am a Portal user.  I have access to LID but never use it.   BSI istructions has this: Step 5: Now, go to PR80 and calculate and add a check. After the check has been successfully added, from the “Options” menu select “Display Log File” From the LID command line, what command do I need to 'go to PR80' Jason

We are looking at changing our Educational Assistance Program and I am testing out set up using remuneration codes with 3 different pay codes/pay summary groups.  I am running into an issue with MD county taxes.  The system does not appear to me recognizing previous payments when calculating the 5250 exemption limit. Does anyone in MD use the remuneration code E015 TIA

Good Morning, I currently have a handful of employees that were not automatically put into the LP group they need to be in and that caused them to not have a plan assigned to them.  I have rerun the HR155 and these employees are now in the LP Group.  I ran the LP100 in hopes it would recognize them and add the plan to their profile.  It did not.  Is there something else I can/should try before manually adding the plan to the employees affected Thank you in advance for any help you can giv...

We have a group of employees moving to new positions with a much higher rate of pay.  These employees will have their PTO balance frozen since these new positions are not eligible to accrue PTO. We want to use their prior rate of pay to calculate the PTO liability for the ledger and any PTO pay out upon termination of these employees. I have not found any fields in LP that would enable use to automate this process to any extent. Any ideas are appreciated.

I am researching why our retirement plans do not automatically end date when an employee terms.  It appears that the employee group did not have status included in it so even when an employee (aka ee) termed it left their plan without an end date.  We want ee's with a TP status to still have a blank end date so their last check can have a retirement deduction but a status of T would trigger an enddate when a TER action with a status of T is keyed on the pa52.1 screen. In test, I updated ...

We recently went live on Lawson HR/Payroll and it would be great if we could find a user group for payroll users so that our payroll staff could have someone to talk to - the Lawson payroll process is much more complicated than our previous HR/Payroll system and it's been a struggle to learn Lawson. Any help would be appreciated.

Has anyone loaded Job Code User Fields up before Could you share the steps I have the user field set up and the value list loaded but now I need to get the user field on the job - any help would be appreciated.

We currently have 3 separate companies with 3 EINs. We are in the planning phase to move to one HR/PR company with three separate EINs (3 process levels). We have employees that move between companies and have issues with terminations in one company and hiring in the next company. Does anyone have any experience in consolidating companies with separate EINs that they would be willing to share How do you record a transfer from one EIN to another and retain their history on HR11 We use a...

My HR department is looking for applications/ hardware that will allow them to scan or swip badges as you enter training classes then take that data collected and update the Lawson Training module. Does anyone know of a program that would assist in this process

We ran a manual pay run which only included voids and reissues.  We ran FM197, which is a custom screen of PR197 but without the update option.  There is data on the report and every account does net to zero.  I do not have anything on the PR197/PR198 in update mode.  Is this correct  I can't even see even the header in the Print Manager or in Vista.  Is this correct or should the PR197/198 have the same data on as FM197 - report only. I would think that I would at least see the report in the p...

Hi, We have a Floating Holiday plan that creates an allotment transaction for the employee effective the day the employee qualifies for the plan. After 90 days the hours move from allotment to available. We have some employees that do not receive the allotment. I have researched the employees to see if there are any common denomiators and I have found nothing. Has this happened to anyone else How did you rectify the issue Thank you in advance!

We have several extracts mostly against deductions, example 403(b) deductions. We have been using check date on the pay master table to drive the record selection, but we are finding that doesn't pick up an manuals or voids that are also processed during that payroll run. There is a date stamp on those records that corresponds to the most recent PR140 run.  So that might be an option. But, I thought I'd ask what other companies are doing.  Basically, how to pull all deductions/activity...

I would like to hear from anyone using LP - we have our PTO usage coming over to the GL on the PR198 as debiting the PTO Payable Accrual account. Then the LP198 comes over as a debit to the PTO Payable Accrual account. So the account is getting hit twice for usage. How is anyone doing this so that usage only hits the account once We just went live on 1/1 of this year and not sure that we got the best advice from our consultants during setup. Any help would be appreciated.