Lawson Enhancement Request Number 5800.
Contact Information:     Name: Penny Pierce
System Information:     Environment Release: 8.0
  Application Release: 8.0 ,     Hardware: Windows 2000
  Product: HUMAN RESOURCES SUITE - BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION   ,     Program: Change Rules BN16.3

Brief Description:   When a personnel action is performed for pay frequency changes, a change rule should update the RS plan enrollments as it does for DC, DI, DL, EL, and HL plans.

Business Case:    Since the change rules do not work for RS plan types we have to manually adjust the enrollments for all personnel actions performed that affect pay frequency.  It is confusing for the end user since this manual process has to skip back and forth from addressing the benefit on BN32.1, back to PA52.1 for the personel action and then back again to BN32.1 to finish the change to the RS plan enrollments.  If not done this way users get errors on the enrollment change either that the "Prem start date and group name does not match with benefit" (if the personnel action is done first) or "Cycles remaining cannot be greater that frequency table" (if the benefit change is done first)

Solution:    The change rule should update the RS plans as it does for all other plans when a personnel action is done that affects the employee's pay frequency.

Current Review Period:
Start Date              End Date
04/01/2004              06/30/2004

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Contact Information:       Name: Stacy Davis 

System Information:       Environment Release: 8.0 ,     Application Release: 8.0
  Hardware: Windows 2000 ,      Product: FINANCIAL SUITE - ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
  Program: MA63

Brief Description:      On MA66.3 when you select Accept in the PO cost field, it puts the invoice cost in the amount field, and it does not allow you to change the amount. This seem very confusing if you are accepting the cost on the PO, but the invoice cost is the cost that appears in the amount field.  When accepting the PO cost, it should default the PO cost in the amount box.  Also on MA66.3 there should be a flag to create a chargeback like you can on MA66.2.

Business Case:     Both of these enhancements would streamline the cost message process.  The invoice message screen is used by many buyers that do not use Lawson on a daily basis, so the more intuitive this screen is the better.  The first request of having the the PO cost appear in the amount field when you accept the PO cost is more logical that the way it works today.  When the invoice cost appears in this field it is misleading because it appears as though you are acceepting that cost and not the PO cost.  As for the auto creating a chargeback, it would allow the AP clerk to not handle the invoice a second time for errors that were a result of the supplier billing incorrectly.

Solution:      On MA66.3 when you select Accept in the PO cost field,it should default the PO cost in the amount box.  Also on MA66.3 there should be a flag to create a chargeback that works that same way as the create a chargeback on MA66.2.

 
Review Process Information:   Your new request will be reviewed and a status provided within 30 days following the "Current Review" period end date.

Start Date              End Date
01/01/2004              03/31/2004

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Contact Information:     Name: Stacy Davis 

System Information:    Environment Release: 7.3.1
  Application Release: 7.2 ,    Hardware: AS400
  Product: FINANCIAL SUITE - ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ,     Program: MA01.1

Brief Description:     The PO Cost Messaging rule group needs to be able to be set at the vendor level and not just at the company level.

Business Case:     We have many suppliers for raw materials that invoice for well over 100,000 lbs of an item at a time and the unit cost for many of these items is under $1.  For these suppliers we do not want any unit cost tolerances for PO Cost Messages, but for suppliers of office supplies for example we would not want to receive a cost message if the unit cost on an invoice for one pen was off by $.05 per unit.

Solution:      There would need to be a "Y or N" field added to the messaging tab on MA01.1 to allow PO cost message tolerances to be based on the rule groups assigned to the Match Table assigned to the vendor.  If there was not a Match Table assigned to the vendor, then it would use the company default rule group from MA01.1.  This would allow some vendors for smaller qty items to have invoices processed without cost messages on small discrepancies, but vendors for large qty items would be able to have zero or extremely low tolerances.

Contact Information:    Name: Stacy Davis 

System Information:     Environment Release: 8.0
  Application Release: 8.0 ,    Hardware: UNIX
  Product: PROCUREMENT SUITE - REQUISITIONS,    Program: RQ10

Brief Description:     There should be an option on RQ to add comments that print on BOTH the requisition and the PO.  Many times the comments are a continuation of the item description and this needs to print on both documents.

Business Case:     Most comments are necessary on both the PO and the Req so they have to be added twice in order for them to print in both doucments.

Solution:     Add another option to the comments on RQ10 for comments to print on both the req and the PO.

04/01/2004              06/30/2004

Current Review Period:
Start Date              End Date
01/01/2004              03/31/2004
Your Request will be reviewed in the next Review Period:
Start Date              End Date

Lawson Enhancement Request Number 5663.
Contact Information:  Don Zoz
System Information:
  Environment Release: 8.0
  Application Release: 8.0
  Hardware: UNIX
  Product: HUMAN RESOURCES SUITE - PAYROLL
  Program: PR113

Brief Description:     Allow users to selectively choose which errors print in the Error reports.

Business Case:
We ran through the PR113 on our final test upgrade, and receive 400 pages of errors.  These errors generate for all types of employee and employer taxes that we do not utilize.  It will take a significant effort to review these errors to filter out what is pertinant.

Solution:
Build a table or list of error codes that the user can choose to not print.  This would put control of the error print and review in the user hands.  This would allow the user to select to review only certian errors generated within a severity level.

Current Review Period:
Start Date              End Date
04/01/2004              06/30/2004

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ER         Entered         Product - Program                                                         Hardware - Env - App Status
5371     03/04/2004      Human Resources Suite - Employee & Manager Self Service - Savings Plan Modeling UNIX - 7.3.3 - 8.0 New Request
Request Information    ER NUMBER: 5371

ER Status: New Request
Select the product for enhancement Program/Product/Tool (ex. AP10, ags, dbdef)
Human Resources Suite - Employee & Manager Self Service  Savings Plan Modeling

Provide a Brief Description for the enhancement.
Need to change language on the input screen for Company Contributions.
Needs to indicate that the intended percent is of EE Contribution, not EE Salary.

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ER 5014 (Brief Description:  Request to not have company paid deductions expense to noncash pay.)

Contact:  Joe Edmiston

The status of Lawson Enhancement Request Number 5014 has been updated.

NEW STATUS: Considered for Future
Lawson will consider it for future development but this does not imply or guarantee it will happen.

Current Review Period:
Start Date              End Date
04/01/2004              06/30/2004

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Enhancement Request Number 5967.

Contact Information:   Name: Joe Edmiston

System Information:    Environment Release: 8.0
  Application Release: 8.0
  Hardware: UNIX,   Product: HUMAN RESOURCES SUITE - PAYROLL
  Program: PR280

Brief Description:
  Include the user id of the person who made a change to an employee's deduction on the PR280-Deduction Audit Report.

Business Case:
  We allow employees to update their w/holding exemptions using the employee portal; however, we have no way of knowing if they changed their own information or if someone in payroll keyed the change.  Our employees often don't recall making the change and feel that we should pay any additional taxes they owe if not enough tax was withheld.  They ask us to prove that they requested a change to their withholding exemptions.

Solution:
  Put the name of the user who made the change to an employee deduction on the PR280 report so we can show them that payroll staff did not make the change to their record.

Current Review Period:
Start Date              End Date
04/01/2004              06/30/2004

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