Update 22A

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this New Feature Summary:

• Release Updates (22A, 22B, 22C, and 22D)
• Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

It is important for you to know what Release Update your environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.

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Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• Human Resources What’s New – In the Global Human Resources section you will find features on the base application in which other application are built upon. 

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for Talent and Compensation products.

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Benefits

Oracle Benefits is a complete, configurable and flexible global solution that enables organizations to successfully evolve and adapt to the unique needs of their workforce. The solution enables setup of traditional 'one-size fits all' plans to highly complex plans that selectively target different workforce segments with different benefit packages. Self-service capabilities present the user with an out of the box intuitive guided enrollment process with contextual information and embedded analytics.

Delete Generated Billing Charges

Delete unpaid billing charges generated in error from Benefits Service Center. With this new feature, the data is restored to how it was before the charges were prepared. The charges don’t appear on a participant’s Year to Date totals and it prevents you from making any further payment against the deleted charge.

The reason and comments that you add while deleting unpaid billing charges are useful for future reference. You can extend the lookup named Reason to add your business-specific reasons.

Once the billing charge is deleted, you’ll still be able to see it, along with the reason it was deleted, from the Show Deleted Unpaid Bill Charges option

You can restart the billing charges from the appropriate period. For example, if charges were deleted for the February, March and April billing periods, and these charges were being written off, you can restart the charges from May. However, if the charges for February, March and April were incorrect and you deleted them in order to generate the correct charges, you can prepare the charges again for February, March and April.

Choose Additional Costing Choices in Benefits

Use the processing source field while configuring standard rates to indicate the allocation you would use for costing. Currently, the cost is distributed only for primary assignment. So the complete cost goes under primary assignment.

Display More than 500 Derived Factors on Eligibility Profiles

Display more than 500 derived factors while adding the derived factors to eligibility profile. The existing limit of the choices is 500 rows only.

Import and Export Eligibility Profiles in Functional Setup Manager

Import and export the eligibility profiles using Functional Setup Manager to create and update records. Currently, the eligibility Functional Setup Manager import service only supports creating data in the target environment but not updating existing data.

Consider Waiting Periods for Imputed Income Calculations

Consider waiting periods in the calculation of imputed income values. You can now configure the system to determine which coverages to include in the calculation of coverage amounts that will be subject to imputed income. Previously, the imputed income rate calculation does not consider the waiting periods of plans that are subject to imputed income. So, all the coverages including the future-dated ones were considered to calculate coverage that is used in the calculation of the imputed rate.

Extend Open Enrollment Window for New Hires

Extend the open enrollment window to give more time to employees to make their choices.

New Check While Changing the Start Date of Contacts with Existing Enrollments

Take notice that there is a new check that prevents you from changing the start date of a contact when the contact has existing enrollments. If the start date of the contact is changed from the Global HR Family and Emergency Contacts side, Benefits checks for any active designations of the contact before the new contract start date. If there are any such designations, the error message appears. If administrators need to change the start date of the contact, they can back out the currently active events and then change the start date.

Track Changes in Enrollment Data

Track the changes that are made to a participant’s enrollments. Tracking occurs when changes are made by a participant in self-service, by an administrator through Benefits Service Center, or by the system through a batch or online process. As all updates to the participant’s enrollments and events have a bearing on enrollments and opportunities and these are tracked irrespective of the user. In addition, all changes to court order details, such as who added or removed the dependent billing charges and payments, person benefits balance, and personal habits will be tracked.

Use 10-Day Payroll Frequency

Use the new period type that supports payroll frequency of 36 periods per year. This enhancement lets you pay employees on the 10th, 20th, and the last calendar day of every month. You can enter an annual salary value to pay a thrice-monthly amount for employees. The payroll frequency of a worker is passed to payroll for processing.

Transactional Business Intelligence Enterprise for Benefits

Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence is a real time, self-service reporting solution offered to all Oracle Cloud application users to create ad hoc reports and analyze them for daily decision-making.  Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence provides human resources managers and specialists, business executives, and line managers the critical workforce information to analyze workforce costs, staffing, compensation, performance management, talent management, succession planning, and employee benefits.

Don’t want to start from scratch building a report or analytics? Check out the library of sample reports for all products on Customer Connect on the Report Sharing Center.

Enhanced Benefits Business Process Dashboard

Improve your reporting on Benefits Business Process Dashboard with the inclusion of the dependent name in the analysis named # of Enrollments and # of Covered Dependent.

Modified Attribute Name in Benefits Subject Area

Take note that the attribute "Enrollment Certification Type" under "Benefits - Enrollments Real Time" > "Participant Enrollment Results Details" > "Enrollment Results" is renamed as "Enrollment Certification".