Agresso Business World: Human Resources and Payroll

Integrated personnel management and administration - for businesses living in change

What is it?

Agresso Human Resources (HR) and Payroll delivers a single, definitive control centre and information repository to help get the best from an organisation's most important assets - its staff.

Who is it for?

This module provides a comprehensive range of tools to help HR and payroll teams perform their roles. Workflow and employee self-service facilities help reduce duplication, minimising the time spent by staff on day-to-day administration. Inquiry, reporting and analysis tools help managers to gain a clearer insight into an organisation's resources - no matter how turbulent the situation.

How can it help?

Fully integrated functionality enables HR and payroll departments to access, process, operate and manage all aspects of the organisation's hire-to-retire cycle and payroll function. 

Central hub of all HR information

Agresso HR enables the creation of comprehensive employee records, with an unlimited variety of user-definable information fields. The module's document archive plays a fundamental role in this, allowing electronic documents (such as résumés) to be attached, so that all critical employee information is brought together in one central repository. In addition, user-defined workflow improves monitoring and control of HR processes, ensuring effective communication and timely handling of tasks. 

Complete payroll solution

Agresso Payroll makes it easy to reflect the exact pay, benefits and deductions arrangements that relate to each individual employee, as well as full administration and tracking of roles and positions and sophisticated reporting and modeling. It can handle the requirements of even the most complex organisations - including the multiple posts, multiple pay scales and seniority processing of the public sector. It is also an extremely effective global solution:

- multi-client structure and built-in flexibility for international deployment

- local add-ins to handle regional statutory calculations; specialist payments and deductions; and government reporting for different payroll jurisdictions. 

Employee self-service

Controlled, secure Internet access to Agresso HR allows employees to carry out common administrative tasks, themselves. Management can also use built-in workflow support for approvals and verification, prior to updating personal records, to ensure efficient, accurate and consistent data entry. 

Easy, effective security and system administration

Agresso offers integrated system-wide administration and security to protect employee information and segregate payroll, personnel and project management data. Our software enables IT departments to establish audit trails and implement internal control policies as required. 

A broader, integrated solution

The strengths of the HR and Payroll module are multiplied, when used as a fully integrated part of the broader Agresso Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. For example:

- Financial management - detailed costs are captured in Agresso Payroll and summarised at the appropriate level in the General Ledger for effective business analysis without time-consuming reconciliations. Also, pay costs are transferred seamlessly into the Agresso Planner module for building budgets.

- Project management - seamless coordination with the Agresso Project module offers users up-to-date, well-managed competence data for resourcing projects.

- Performance management - managers can report, analyse and perform metrics on their operations and instantly introduce required changes, as a consequence of their findings.

What does it do?

Agresso HR and Payroll offers a comprehensive range of tools to help manage everyday tasks more effectively, and gain greater insight into the organisation's personnel and payroll processes. 

Agresso Human Resources

- Personnel administration to manage the employee life cycle.

- Competence analysis to enable HR to define the organisation's skills matrix and to identify strengths of employees and applicants.

- Resource planning and deployment integration to maximise employee and enterprise efficiency.

- Recruitment support, to collect applicant data and competencies and track the hire process with business alerts and reminder tasks.

- Salary review: to handle the salary setting process efficiently and on a devolved basis.

- Absence monitoring and tracking for full absence-management reporting, as well as analysis to identify repeat patterns, which can indicate stress-related illnesses, potential job dissatisfaction or other problems, and integration to Payroll to facilitate occupational and statutory pay arrangements.

- Employee travel and expense handling, to calculate allowances and process the reimbursement of expenses.

- Microsoft Word and Excel integration to automate the creation of employee and applicant letters, forms and reports based on master file data.

Custom tabs and fields to capture a full range of HR information

Agresso Payroll

- Enabling complete payroll configuration and the definition of unlimited payments and deductions (P&D) codes to create distinct pay structures.

- Functionality for payroll simulation, re-runs, reversal and back-pay calculations to ensure accuracy, efficiency and timeliness.

- Simplified administration of payroll by defining employees by position.

- General Ledger analysis that is linked to different positions to ensure accurate allocation of costs.

Custom reports and forms using integrated reporting tools.