Revolutionizing Payroll: Unlocking SAP Solutions for Seamless Transformation

Payroll plays a critical role in enhancing employee experience and for most businesses it would typically be the single largest expense. As payroll represents a substantial expense, its management is greatly optimized through the use of sophisticated and appropriate payroll systems. Despite this, many businesses are still reliant on manual and time-consuming processes. Disparate and fragmented payroll models, along with a lack of insight into policy deviations, can lead to high operational complexity, employee dissatisfaction, increased error rates, and elevated costs. Transitioning to a scalable and customized global payroll solution brings with it multiple benefits:

• Lowers the risk of noncompliance
• Ensures timely and correct payroll
• Boosts productivity through process automation
• Decreases error rates
• Minimizes costs related to mistakes and manual interventions
• Enhances employee experience

Additionally, it offers comprehensive insights into payroll operations, facilitating better decision-making, and adapts to the evolving needs of the organization, ensuring scalability and sustainability. This capability allows businesses to continuously optimize their payroll processes and stay aligned with industry best practices.

Cloud migration renders all your HR functions faster and smoother, and provides you access from anywhere in the world. SAP's cloud payroll solutions are packed with features that will empower your HR team and simplify their tasks.

For organizations that prefer a more cautious transition, SAP has a hybrid model that is the best of both worlds. The hybrid model offers an alternative approach that minimizes disruption to existing processes and provides flexibility for gradual adaptation to changes.

Benefits of the hybrid model:

• Allows enterprises to move core HR and talent platforms to the cloud
• Enables continued use of existing SAP Payroll on-premise systems

This approach gives organizations the ability to leverage cloud benefits while maintaining familiar on-premise payroll operations during the transition period.

Businesses that prefer to minimize technology changes can depend on SAP to provide dependable on-premise solutions.

SAP's flexible approach empowers organizations by allowing them to select the option that synchronizes with their IT strategy. Whether your organization prefers a future-ready cloud-based approach, a cautious hybrid model, or a traditional on-premise setup, SAP's got a payroll solution that will work for you.

Roadmap Options	Recommended by Infosys for the SAP Customer Evolution Journey	Valid From/To	Cloud/Hybrid/ On-premises	Key Highlights and Objectives
Direct journey to SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll	Yes	Migrate before 2030	Cloud	Payroll solution with focus on innovation. Fully integrated with SuccessFactors Employee Central. Payroll full cloud transformation to utilize cloud capability, complex transformation to a new platform. AI capability to view pay statements with Joule.
SAP H4S4 for S/4HANA Payroll	Yes	From Q4 2022 Valid till 2040	On-premise	Least disruptive path to move Payroll and Time. For customers moving to S/4HANA and wanting to continue to run the ERP HCM in the same instance as S/4HANA.
SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud	Yes	Valid till 2040	Cloud	This option involves migrating to an SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud
Edition (S/4 PCE)				Edition (S/4 PCE) subscription.
Compatibility Pack (CP) for Human Capital Management (HCM)	No (from a long- term perspective)	Valid till Q4 2025	Cloud/On- premises	Compatibility packs cover SAP ERP core or line of business (LoB) or industry solutions functionalities in SAP S/4HANA.
SAP ECC-HCM Carve-out	No	Valid till 2027/2030	On-premises	Move to a separate SAP ECC-HCM for a specific business need prior to the SAP Customer Evolution journey.

Your organization’s goals, size, business requirements and current footprint, would help determine the preferred SAP or SAP SuccessFactors payroll solution.

Ensuring a Smooth Payroll Transition with Infosys

Rapid adoption and implementing SAP payroll solutions can be a game-changer for organizations, and that's where Infosys assists with a smart approach. Backed by Infosys’ expertise, organizations can decide the best-fit payroll option for them.

Infosys offers a no obligation payroll assessment service that focuses on two key areas:

1. An organization’s current Human Capital Management (HCM) technical setup
2. The complexity of existing payroll system for the country in question

After reviewing these aspects, based on relevant decision factors specific to the organization, Infosys provides a recommendation for the best-fit solution. This clear-cut process helps organizations to evaluate their options, without any obligation, and gives them valuable insights to guide their payroll transformation decision.

Infosys is a trusted partner for end-to-end payroll transformation, offering expertise for any chosen SAP payroll solution.

Infosys uses its proprietary Payroll Parallel Testing Reconciliation Tool during payroll implementations. This tool aids in parallel testing by reconciling payroll results between SAP and legacy systems, reducing the time and effort needed for payroll validation and reconciliation.

Managed Payroll Services Across the Globe with Infosys

Infosys provides managed payroll services across 160+ countries with its Ready to Run Global Payroll solution. Built on SAP SuccessFactors, this out-of-the-box, plug-and-play Payroll as a Service offering delivers comprehensive, multi-country cloud-based payroll services. It can also be seamlessly integrated with the full talent suite of SAP SuccessFactors for enhanced functionality.

Redefining the payroll journey for customers as per their needs