Benefits (PA-BN) 
Benefits (PA-BN)
Purpose
In a competitive employment market, benefits play a significant role in total compensation offers designed to attract and keep the best possible employees. The SAP Benefits (PA-BN) component offers you powerful and comprehensive tools for creating and managing tailor-made benefits packages for your employees. It allows you to administer an extensive range of benefit plans, and its sophisticated configuration options can accommodate complex plan definitions.
The integrated processes and automated functions in Benefits streamline your administrative activities, enabling you to reduce your overheads. By implementing the employee self-services provided in Benefits, you can further optimize the cost-effectiveness of your administration. Self-services minimize the volume of paperwork and inquiries from employees handled by your team and increase the timeliness of data recorded in your system.
The Benefits component makes important benefits-related information easily accessible to your administrative staff, executives, and employees, as the basis for decisions-making. Information is available in reports or in the form of an online overview of participation.
Implementation Considerations
Benefits
integrates to SAP's International Payroll, however, it does not integrate to every SAP country payroll version. Please contact your SAP payroll implementation team or payroll administrator to find out whether integration is in place for your country.If you want to use Benefits for a country payroll version that is not integrated, in conjunction with non-SAP payroll software or an external payroll service, you need to provide your own interface for the transfer of data.
Features
International Benefits
The core Benefits component is designed for the international market and encompasses the following central elements:
This component provides all the functions needed to handle your organization's benefits administration processes, from enrollment of employees to eligibility monitoring.
A range of standard reports are provided that allow you to summarize and analyze data relating to benefits. You also have access powerful reporting tools in order to create any additional reports that may require.
Infotypes are the basis for storing information relating to employees within SAP Human Resources. Special infotypes are used for benefits administration, and infotypes from the Personnel Administration (PA-PA) component are also referenced.
A range of self-services are available that enable your employees to view and change their benefits data within the company Intranet or the Internet.
Country-Specific Benefits
In response to legal and functional requirements in specific countries, additional functions are also available as an add-on to the international component. For more information, see the specific documentation for the relevant country/geographical area: