New Features in Employee Self-Services (SAP Library

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New Features in Employee Self-Services

Use

In Release 4.6C, additional functions have been included in the existing services:

Enrollment

You can provide a link to a search engine that employees can use to search for doctors approved by their plan providers.

It is now possible to print forms from within Enrollment. For reference purposes, employees can print enrollment forms for a valid benefit offer. Once they have enrolled, they can also print their own confirmation forms.

Employees can simulate their payslip to see the effect of different plan elections on their gross pay. This function can be a useful decision aid for employees during enrollment.

Inquiry

The name of this service has been changed to Participation Overview.

Employees can now print a confirmation form showing their plan enrollments from the overview.

For both services, it is possible to set customer-specific hypertext links to sources of additional information residing either in the company's Intranet or in the Internet. The following types of links are possible:

General links available on each screen (for example, to a list of contacts)

Specific links providing information about plans, plan types, or investments

Effects on System Administration

Before you use the payslip simulation function you should test whether your system can effectively handle simultaneous generation of multiple payslips (if, for example, you are a large company with an open enrollment period). For more information, see the documentation Set ESS Parameters.

Effects on Customizing

Depending on which of the new features you want to use, you need to make the appropriate settings in the Benefits Implementation Guide in the section Employee Self-Service.

Payslip simulation

To make this function available to employees, you need to make settings in the step

Set ESS Parameters.

Links to sources of further information

To provide links you need to specify a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for each source of information and assign it to objects such as a plan, or define it as a generally available link.

Doctor search

You specify the URL of the search engine you want to use in the step

Assign Doctor Search Information to Provider .