Benefits Administration (PA-BN)
Purpose
In today's competitive employment market, benefits play an important role in total compensation offers designed by employers to attract and retain the best possible employees. Within the mySAP Human Resources solution, the Benefits Administration (PA-BN) component offers you a flexible framework for creating and managing tailor-made benefits packages for your employees. Its versatile configuration options allow you to offer a diverse range of benefits and to accommodate even complex plan definitions.
The integrated and automated processes within Benefits Administration streamline your administrative activities, helping you to cut costs. By implementing Employee Self-Services, for example, you minimize the volume of paperwork and inquiries handled by your benefits staff, while at the same time increasing the accuracy of data.
With the reporting capabilities provided, your benefits staff and executives have direct access to structured benefits data to assist them in their analytical tasks. In Employee Self-Service, your employees also have up-to-the-minute information about their current benefits elections at their fingertips, and can access additional information to support them in the decision-making process.
Implementation Considerations
Benefits Administration
integrates to SAP's international Payroll (PY) component, 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 Administration 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 Functionality
The core Benefits Administration component is designed for use worldwide and encompasses the following central elements:
Powerful yet simple-to-use tools support you in all your administrative tasks, from enrollment through eligibility checking and communication of benefits information to plan providers.
Infotypes are the basis for storing information relating to employees within mySAP Human Resources. Benefits Administration uses special infotypes and also references infotypes from the SAP Personnel Administration (PA-PA) component.
A range of standard reports allows you to summarize and analyze data relating to benefits. You also have access to versatile reporting tools that enable you to create any additional reports that may require.
An array of services are available that enable your employees to view and change their benefits data within the company intranet or the Internet.
Country-Specific Functionality
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: