We are in the process of planning our implementation of Absence Management and would like to know how much consulting assistance was needed for it.  Did anyone setup LP without assistance  Any advise will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Cindy

We set up each of our facilities as a process level and we have employees that work in multiple facilities. All of them are in the same county/state. When they work in multiple facilities, all of their deductions get split up by their percentage of hours worked in each process level. Their deductions don't get charged to their accounting units, they all roll to one benefits accounting unit. Is there any way to set this up so that the deductions don't split up It makes reporting a nightmare. W...

Hello, Just wondering if anyone has given any thought to how they are going to track part time hours worked for the Affordable Care act requiring anyone working 30 or more hours a week (on average) to receive benefits.  I am getting stuck when an employee goes Full Time to Part Time I don't want to be counting hours worked while they were full time to figure out the average  Or do I Please help, thanks!!

We recently added a new system code to keep our in-house written programs separate. In writing the first program for that new system code I am encountering a message that does not give me enough information to determine problem.  Error msg is: Line 5 : Invalid Tran Code Found Previous to that I had gotten valid errors and fixed those.  Line 5 is a comment line. Any ideas

I've been asked to add a button to a Lawson HR form that will execute ImageNow.  The sample script I have is for AP and I don't know how to change it to apply to an HR form.  Has anyone done this and if so, would you be willing to share a sample script with me  We basically want it to use the Lawson to show the associated documents. Here is what was in their documentation: 1. Open Lawson Design Studio and open the Lawson Form to which you want to add a button. 2. At the bottom of the s...

We are working towards a LTM implementation late 2014.  Wondering if anyone has information or opinions regarding staying with S3 HR vs implementing Global HR  Has anyone done LTM and stayed with S3 HR Thanks!

Can someone point me to the Excel add-in that gives the PR197 data, such as Employee, Accounting Unit, Account, Amount etc. Thanks, Chris

Hi, my employer will go live with ESS for our annual benefit enrollment for 1/1/2014. I would love to connect with anyone who might have gone live with ESS for their annual enrollment; war stories and success stories wanted! If I can contact you by email or phone, please let me know. It is greatly appreciated!

Hello Everyone, I'm looking for a way to customize the pay cycles for a process level that shares the same pay plan as another. The Lawson 'BN Admin Guide 9.01' only outlines how to maintain web benefit cycle data for those that share a different pay plan. Can someone point me in the right direction as to what steps I need to take to implement custom cycles for this scenario Thanks, Joseph

Have a user field that was created as an alpha field. It is also set up to create history records. Values were loaded in this field for employees. The field really needs to be changed to be a numeric field, not alpha. The problem is that I cannot delete the user field since it has history activity attached to it. I have tried all possible combinations of removing the history records but can't seem to get rid of the last one in HR54. If I delete the value from an employee through HR15 - then I ha...

We have approximately 20,000 employees and are looking at some options regarding our pay cycles. We currently have two pay cycles that pay on alternating weeks.  One option we are considering is moving to one pay cycle...has anyone else done this recently  We are on 9.0.  Outside of the employee communication pieces, any words of wisdom or advice

We have a need to track what incentive plans employees are elilgible for, including the plan name, percent and date.  Other than creating individual HR11 user fields to track this, has anyone else used Lawson to track this information  We are on S3 ver 9.0.1.

Essentially, 457(b) can now accomodate Pre and After Tax contributions (I believe IRS has allowed this a few years ago). Currently, our 403(b) and 403(b) Roth Contributions aggregate as they should utilizing the tax status codes, 02 and 17 on the PR05. 457(B) Roth has a tax status of 04 but not a corresponding after tax status code... it must be left blank to get the appropriate after-tax calculation; this does not aggregate toward the maximum contribution. Has anyone experienced this issue

Via SQL I need to traverse payroll deduction data in paydeductn to glchartdtl.  Has anyone done this  This my latest attempt to join this data with no results, where per_end_date is a parameter into the query.        AND employee.employee = paydeductn.employee        AND paydeductn.per_end_date = :end_date        AND emdedmastr.company = paydeductn.company        AND emdedmastr.employee = paydeductn.employee        AND emdedmastr.ded_code = paydeductn.ded_code        AND emdedmastr.seq_...

Hello, let me first say that I am an novice in LAWSON and am just now learning the basics.  We entered a wrong Effective Date for a SEPARATION in PA52.1.  I found some documentation (and training materials on MyLawson.com) on the topic of 'Essentials of History Correction'.  Upon trying the procedure in 54.1 I received an error: 'Pending history correction records must be updated first.' Can someone explain to me what I need to do next  I am at a loss to understand.... Thank you!

I have a job I need to remove for testing puroses. In the TEST portal, when I try to delete the job it says I can't because it exists as a recurring job in recdef. In LID, when I try to delete it in recdef I just get a system beep - no explanation - nothing. Any suggestions Thank you

Does your system pass the PTO from the LP to the GL side as the PTO is earned or is the bank balance calculated at the end of the month How often is the LP198 ran

In the test environment, I am receiving a pop up box that says Benfit enrollment rules are net set up for employee.  I reviewed chapter 7 in the Lawson ESMSS Guide regarding Web Benefits Enrollments and as fas as I can tell all the necessary set up seems to be done.  Am I missing something  I am using version 9.0.1.9.153  I do not have any issues in production.

Since PR195 does not include Activity data in the accrual file, we have been searching for a way to automate the preparation of adjustment files for general ledger.  We have been creating csv files from PR195 to use in preparing adjustment files and have found that the employee number is not assigned to each of the lines in PR195 for the employer deduction amount calculated by PR195.  In order to use the PR195 detail to concatenate the activity code, the employee number must be in the PR195 deta...

Just curious to see how other clients handle this process.  Do you have a deduction code (apply the amount of the check to that deduction code) and process a manual check to the Employee Thanks for your help!

Our medical provider is asking us to maintain Coordination of Benefits during open enrollment within Lawson.  We are researching if other organization are storing the data in Lawson and then creating an interface. We modified ESS last year to direct employee to the vendor site. Thanks in advance, Paul

Hello, I am trying to hide 'Supplemental' address tab in ESS under 'Personal Changes'. I went to modify empaddress.htm and tried to hide the code wherever 'Supplemental' was referenced. It hides it, but then the 'Home Address' change submission doesn't work. It seems like I am not commenting out the right code. Has anyone ever done this I thought it should not be that hard to hide a tab. Any ideas Thanks, KJ

Currently, we have a flex plan in place for regular employees (aka ee) and they accrual flex time every pay period. I am working on creating another flex plan for a small group of doctors that get a flat number of days every year. I thought I had it set up correctly...created the employee group (aka ee grp) to identify who is eligible for this plan, tied it to the same Absence Plan (it's cycle based so I think I can do that.) but defined the service, accrual, eligibility, limit, payroll and ...

Hello! I have an employee that when i drill down into HR11 under deductions, in their Retirement deduction code (3601) there is a General Ledger Override to their expense account (see attached).  I don't believe it is coming from the BN20 because there is only a very small number of group overrides there, none of which this employee belongs to. Can you tell me from where else could an override be attaching itself to this deduction Many thanks, Chris

Does anyone know of a data dictionary for the TA...... tables of S3.  Tables like TAEMPTRANS. Jeff