ALTUS ALLIANCE 2016Altus Dynamics – Advanced Position Management and HR Requests

Your Presenter• Victor M. Bacho• Senior Application Consultant• Joined Altus in 2005

Altus Advanced Position Management (APM)• Questions answered in this session:• What is “Advanced” Position Management and why use it?• What are HR Jobs and HR Positions?• What are HR Requests and what do they do?• What is an HR Request?• How can I contribute to the continuous improvement of the

APM functionality?

HR Job• Captures and stores the high-level HR and Payroll

attributes of the work that employees do• Acts as the foundation for the creation of HR Positions in

NAV• Contains “Score” Job Evaluation Functionality• Repository for most of the Attendance Management

setup parameters (e.g. AESOP, SFE integration)

HR Positions• Non-APM Positions• Single position tracks an employee’s current assignment only• Tracking only the current and the previous position

• APM (Advanced Position Management) • Location or portfolio specific iteration of a job• Hold multiple attributes for the employee work assignment• Contains both HR and Payroll settings that will apply to

employees when assigned an HR Position

HR Positions (Cont’d)• Contains both HR and Payroll settings that will apply to

employees assigned an HR Position• Users can further refine and/or modify some of these

attributes when assigning individual employees to an HR Position• Archetype of other similar positions where parameters may

differ slightly

HR Requests• Traceable and auditable “Document style” tool used to effect

changes in an employee’s assignment status within an organization• An email style “Inbox” allows users throughout the process easily

manage their work based on a filtered view of HR Request Statuses• Covers the following actions:

• Hire• Details Change• Assignment Change• Payroll Entry• Notification• Termination & Rehire (Single/Multiple Positions)

HR Requests (Cont’d)• Operates based on out-of-the-box , user-configurable HR

Reason Codes• HR Reason codes are supported by a library of available HR

Functions • Can be deployed to the WebApps for a de-centralized set of

functions• Utilizes a user-configurable defined workflow process

HR Position Ledger Entries (Assignments)• Repository for the details of the life cycle of an employee’s relationship with

his/her employer. • Tracks a wide variety of data elements associated with each position

regardless of it’s status including but not limited to:• HR Position Code• Assignment start/end date (Primarily HR)• Calculation start/end date (Primarily Payroll)• HR Position Hours/Day, Hours/Day & associated FTE • Pay Structure, Step and Grade, • Payroll Control Code • Entry Type• Leave details• Location Code

HRPLE Assignments (Cont’d)• Source of Data for many payroll calculations • Meets Service Canada Requirements with regard to the

ability to issue an ROE against one or more positions were necessary (i.e. 60% drop in earnings), permanent ending of an assignment etc.• Source for individual financial cost allocation for the

employee

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