Enrollment (ESS) (SAP Library - Employee Self-Service (ITS Version))

Enrollment (ESS)

Use

Employees can use this service to enroll in plans, change their elections for plans in which they are currently participating, and stop participation in plans. They can also perform the following activities from within the service:

Display summaries of costs and contributions, investments, dependents, and beneficiaries for the plans selected for enrollment (does not take current participation into account)

Print an enrollment form for a benefit offer

Display information on plans, plan types, or investments *

Search for physicians approved by a health plan provider *

Simulate a payslip prior to completing enrollment to see the effect of plan elections on gross pay *

Print a confirmation form after enrollment

The activities marked * are only possible if the functions are explicitly activated or defined in Customizing.

Prerequisites

Before an employee can use this service, a General Benefits Information record (infotype 0171) must exist for the employee and the employee's SAP user must be entered on the Communication infotype (0105).

If you want to make enrollment and confirmation forms available in this service, you need to set up form printing using SAPscript templates. For more information, see the Benefits Administration Implementation Guide (Flexible Administration ® Form Setup).

Features

Modification Options

The name of this service is PZ14. You can find all the relevant data for this service in the SAP@Web Studio.

Activities

If you want to provide links to further sources of information about plans, plan types, or investments, to general information, or to a physician search engine, you need to set up these links in the Benefits Administration Implementation Guide in the section Employee Self-Service.

If you want to make the payslip simulation function available to employees, you need to define parameters for simulation in the Benefits Administration Implementation Guide (Employee Self-Service ® Set ESS Parameters).

Note

Before you activate the payslip simulation function, you should read the documentation for the Customizing step Set ESS Parameters, which describes the function's limitations.