R12.1 RUP8 New and Changed features

(For the previous release RUP7, see my blog here)

For 12.1, patch 20000288 - R12.HR_PF.B.DELTA.8 (HRMS 12.1 RUP8) was released in May-2015. New and updated features are tracked in document - Oracle Human Resources Management Systems Readme, HRMS Release Update Pack 8 for Release 12.1 (Doc ID 1989740.1)

Known Issues on Top of Patch 20000288 - R12.HR_PF.B.DELTA.8 (HRMS 12.1 RUP8) (Doc ID 1992029.1)

Key interesting enhancements are:

Payroll:

• Improved Payroll Dashboard, which includes support for pre-readiness checks for AU, support for display of assignment without payment methods, and improved performance. Users can use the extensible lookup PAY_DB_MONITOR_PROCESSES to configure localization specific payroll processes.   When configured, the payroll dashboard displays the list of processes within the Payroll Process Details section under Other Process Details Region of the Process Monitor tab.
• Third Party Personal Payment Method: The application is now designed to auto populate the bank details in the personal payment method of the employees for third party payments using the bank details specified at Payee Organization. For this, Additional Information is enabled for Organization Classification of Payee. Users can override these details if required. (This feature is available for AU and US only at this point).
• New Costing of Payment Reports: New programs have been introduced for costing of payment reports: Costing of Payment Summary Report, Costing of Payment Detail Report, Costing of Payment Breakdown Report

Performance Management

• Reopen Scorecards that are at the Transferred from Plan Status when a Plan is Republished: From this release, when a plan administrator selects the Reevaluate Plan Population option in the Update: Plan Review page and if the application finds that the worker is eligible to become part of the plan population again, then appraisals and scorecards with Transferred from Plan status are reopened so that the previously worked details are available to view and update using the Employee Self-Service or Manager Self-Service responsibilities.

There are no new features in AME, Compensation Workbench, HRMS Configuration Workbench, Core HR, Oracle Labor Distribution, Oracle Succession Planning,

The following modules have new features, which are not summarized in this blog - Advanced Benefits, Oracle iRecruitment (one new feature for OFCCP compliance for United States), Oracle Learning Management (two new features, including ability to create enrollments with a past date for learners in offline synchronous classes, i.e. classroom based classes), Oracle Self Service, Oracle Time and Labor (the integration between HR Absences and OTL Time card is extended to timecards which have OTLR feature enabled).

(For the next release RUP9, see my blog here)