Update 21D

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 (21A, 21B, 21C, and 21D)
• 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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Compensation

Compensation

Oracle Compensation enables your organization to plan, allocate, and communicate compensation using the most complete solution in the market. Make better business decisions using embedded analytics and a total compensation view of workers, regardless of geographic location or pay package components. Oracle Compensation enables your organization to plan, allocate, and communicate compensation using the most complete solution in the market. Make better business decisions using embedded analytics and a total compensation view of workers, regardless of geographic location or pay package components.

Additional Parameters in Design Studio

Enjoy more flexibility when you configure rules in Transaction Design Studio. You can now use the Country, Action, and Worker Type parameters in Change Salary action. And you can now use the Country and Worker Type parameters in Salary History, Compensation Info, My Compensation actions.

Salary

Enhancements to Download Salaries

Enhance people's experience when using download salaries with these new features:

• Pending Approval Check: You're prevented from loading salary when a standalone change salary transaction or a global HR transaction that includes salary, such as Change Assignment, is pending approval. Because a new salary record is created when you load salaries, this check prevents the approver from getting an error after they approve the transaction pending approval.

• Salary Range Violation Behavior: You're prevented from loading salary outside the range when you configure the salary range violation behavior to prevent a salary change that violates the salary range.

• Salary Ranges are Adjusted for Differential: You can now see the salary ranges that are calculated from the differential profile.

• Additional Attributes: You can now see additional attributes, such as Assignment Number, Location, Compensation Zone, and Compensation Zone type that can help you better understand salary details.

Defaulting When Date in Change Salary Flow Introduction

Control the defaulting of the when date in the responsive Change Salary flow using the ORA_PER_EMPL_DEFAULT_EFFECTIVE_DATE profile option. If you want to make sure that the proposer enters a date, you can now disable the option to default the date.

Warn When Later Salary Exists

Get a warning when you propose a salary change for a date before an existing salary record. For example, the latest salary starts January 1, 2021. If you propose a salary change that starts before then, you get a warning that lets you know that your salary change is valid until the next future salary, and that you might need to revise the later salary change.

Salary Not Defaulted to 0

Leave the salary amount blank instead of defaulting it to 0 when you select a salary basis in flows that create salary, such as Hire An Employee, Add Pending worker, Add Contingent Worker, Add Non Worker, Add Assignment, and Add Work Relationship.

Individual Compensation

Individual Compensation Plan Synchronized with Projected Start Date Introduction in Pending Worker Actions

Synchronize the individual compensation plan start and end dates with the pending worker’s planned start date, using a new option for plan dates. You can also define a delay so that the plan start and end dates are calculated according to the planned start date plus the delay. And you can let the proposer change the calculated date while they award the plan. When the proposer overrides a calculated date, the plan date can’t be automatically synchronized any more. The proposer has to manually intervene for every change in the planned start date.

When you propose an end-dated individual compensation row in the pending worker stage for a plan that uses the new date option, the end date now gets carried forward to the hired employee as part of the conversion.

Journey Support for Individual Compensation Plan Introduction

Enhance people's experience by configuring Journeys to generate checklists for new individual compensation allocations. For example, whenever a manager allocates new individual compensation or an individual subscribes to a new personal contribution, the request gets routed for approval. Final approval of the allocation or contribution creates the element entry for the individual compensation plan and the listening checklist gets generated.

Workforce Compensation

Updated Budget Scoreboard Summary View

See a more cohesive view within Workforce Compensation now that we updated the scoreboard of the Budget summary to more closely resemble the Worksheet scoreboard summary.

Warning In Configure Performance Ratings

Receive a warning in Configure Performance Ratings in Workforce Compensation plan setup that informs administrators that they should select additional parameters to improve worksheet performance.

Receive Error When You Select More Than 20 People For Worksheet Actions

Receive an error message when you try to select more than 20 people for the following worksheet actions: add or remove Review Manager, eligibility change, and reassign workers to another manager.

Change In Behavior In Performance Worksheet Task

Reduce performance issues for worksheet managers with more than 500 people reporting to them by eliminating the summary in the Performance worksheet task.

Change In Workforce Compensation Landing Page Analytics Behavior

Use the right or left arrows on the landing page analytics to see additional analytics. Also, the analytics summary is closed by default.

Switch Between Workforce Compensation Setup Tasks

Switch between Workforce Compensation plan setup tasks and worksheet configuration tasks without navigating back to the task list page.

Change In Behavior In Compensation Worksheet Task

Improve worksheet performance for managers with more than 500 people reporting to them by eliminating access to the Overall Rating analytic in the Analytic view.

Change In Job Filter Behavior When Job List is Greater Than 50

Improve performance when there are more than 50 distinct jobs under a manger. The manager can only select a single value from the job filter list.  When there are fewer than 50 distinct jobs under a manager, the manager is able to select multiple values from the job filter list. 

Change In Behavior In Manager Reports

Improve reporting performance for managers that have more than 500 people reporting to them. In this case, four manager reports don’t display the Oracle Performance Management Ratings. When you use both Compensation Performance ratings and Oracle Performance Management Ratings or just the Compensation Performance Rating alone the Compensation Performance Ratings appear on the reports.

Change In Worksheet Filter Behavior For Managers With More Than 500 People

Improve worksheet filter performance for managers with more than 500 people reporting to them. The managers now have to explicitly open the filter toolbar to access the worksheet filters.

Configure Performance Rating To Display In Performance Task Summary

Use the new configuration options to enable or disable Compensation Performance Ratings and Oracle Performance Management Ratings in the Performance task summary.

Grade Step Progression

Enhanced Validation when Accepting Manual Grade Step Progressions

Prevent data errors when you manually accept proposed progressions or salary updates. We've enhanced the validation that is triggered when you use the Accept action in the Review Proposed Progressions and Salary Updates task.

FTE Adjustments in HR Actions When Salary Comes From Grade Ladder And Salary Amount is Determined By Simple Components

Compare previous salary to proposed salary more easily in HR actions. We changed the way FTE adjustments work when the salary comes from the progression grade ladder and the salary amount is determined by simple components. Previously in HR actions, the progression grade ladder component didn't adjust for FTE when the Salary Adjustment Type field on your progression grade ladder was blank. Now the Salary Adjustment Type setting on the progression grade ladder is ignored and the progression grade ladder rate component always adjusts for FTE, if the salary amount is determined by simple components.

Salary Adjustment Type Determines FTE Proration When Salary Comes From Grade Ladder And Salary Amount is Determined By User

Improve accuracy of salary adjustments when changing working hours. We changed the way FTE adjustments work in Change Working Hours actions when the salary comes from the progression grade ladder and the salary amount is determined by user. Previously, the salary was always prorated for FTE when you changed the working hours without also changing the grade or step. Now the Change Working Hours action honors the Salary Adjustment Type setting on the progression grade ladder, if the salary amount is determined by user.

Market Data

Market Data - Addition of Position in Composite HSDL

Support the loading of composites by position using HSDL.

Total Compensation Statement

Total Compensation Statement Feedback

Track the success of your total compensation expenditure with the new statement feedback functionality.

Total Compensation Statement - Stock History Category Additions

Extend the stock history category in Total Compensation Statement with additional columns from the stock table.

Total Compensation Statement - Generate Statements by Manager Hierarchy

Streamline the Generate Statements process by using the Manager Hierarchy population filter.

Transactional Business Intelligence Enterprise for Compensation

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.

New Attributes In Salary Subject Areas

Enhance your reporting on salary and salary history subject areas by using new attributes related to salary basis. Also, we enhanced the salary pay rates metrics.

Enhancements to Compensation Stocks Subject Area

Improve your reporting on the Stocks subject area by using the revised formula to compute the estimated walkaway value.