PPP003 Meeting discussing PPP programme and priorties
Meeting held 13-Nov-14
Here's a quick summary of this morning's meeting: -
- David Smyth will join the PPP003 Annual Maintenance project in the role of Senior Supplier, to provide technical support for Anne
- Priorities for projects in progress was agreed as follows: -
1. HRS081 Database migration (Due to complete in Dec-14
2. PPP003 Annual maintenance
3. PPP002 Online payslips
4. PPP001 Maternity/paternity
- Resourcing issues and RMAS implications discussed. PPP001 to be deferred to July 15 (to start immediately after Annual Maintenance). Potentially also phase 2 reporting, but this needs to be confirmed with HR as some of the requirements may be theirs
ACTIONS
- - Anne to add risk to PPP003 for potential Oracle patches for local (Scottish) tax changes
- - David to speak to Oracle about their plans to address Scottish tax changes
- - Dawn to defer PPP001 to July 2015
- - Terry/Pam to speak to Henry/Susan about phase 2 reporting - as the BI Universe will be available, can this be moved back to later next year (currently set for Jan 15)
- - David to ask Oracle whether any other customers are using international payments
Kind regards
Dawn
David Smyth's feedback.
Pam/Terry,
Please see initial response from Oracle account mgr for HCM. Good news on the devolved powers around taxation - Oracle will cover this. As ever how smoothly the change goes will be a moving feast. On the foreign payments, initial suggestion is to raise a support call. Think we probably need to understand what we’re trying to achieve or looking to do. Happy to input into that if I can help. We have a route back in with Tony if this tack is not proving answers.
I’ve still an action to arrange a session with the software company around testing/patching support. I’ll look to get that in past in the next week or so.
From Oracle: Thanks for the reference site assistance. In response to the points you have raised, I can confirm we have around 20 large customers who are based in Scotland with many others running payrolls for Scottish based employees - our legislative agreement ensures that we must continue to support all UK (including devolved counties) that are currently supported. That’s to say should Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland diverge from Westminster based tax & NI etc we would continue to support them - we already do this for AEO's etc which are specific to England/Wales but are different for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Re the BACS IBAN item - need to think on this as international payments from many of our customers (including Oracle) are generated from Financials. We definitely support international banking number etc in Payroll but I think we assume you'll pay them via CHAPS or finance. Suggest in the immediate term you raise a support ticket on this to see what support say. Tony David's request to Oracle A couple of quick questions if you would. Speaking to colleagues in Payroll I picked up on some things they were looking to do or may have implications on them. First was around potential devolved powers to Scottish Government for tax raising. Is Oracle working on this? Assume it would be similar position to IOM where any legislative changes would be handled through patches either as adjuncts to main UK elements or with Scotland going down IOM route. Second is on international bank validation with Oracle system. Do you know of any friendly organisations that may be doing this that we could speak to? There’s a bit of a fudge here just now where the international payments are taken out and proceed manually. We’re looking to be able to feed automatically through our BACS facilities to remove errors/speed up process. UCL have been in touch re a reference, so we’re just working through that. Should have something with them early next week and have offered a conference call if it helps.
Pam's feedback I’ll discuss the requirements for foreign payments with Terry and Henry and take this forward. I’ll keep IS updated on progress