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00263 - BSI Tax Factory

00263 - BSI Tax Factory

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BSI Tax Factory


We are using BSI TaxFactory here at our installation on 40B, and have been
live since 5/99 on payroll. There are no other options for US payroll in
SAP that we are aware of. Our environment is very simple: one plant, one
state, no sub-state income tax jurisdictions.

As a BASIS person, I do not like the maintenance updates, which come out 2-4
times a month, and which must be applied faithfully in sequence regardless
of whether they pertain to our company or not. Corresponding SAP updates
are downloaded from the SAP ftp server in special SAP transports 2-4 weeks
after the BSI updates are delivered by email. The BSI component is
essentially a "black box" application about which we know nothing of the
internals.

In the past, the BSI server had to be installed on another platform (NT) and
accessed via a SAP standalone gateway, but that is (thankfully) no longer
true. There is now an AS/400 server for BSI TaxFactory, which we began
using in late December (after a month-long struggle to get through a faulty
installation.)

Some other issues I have are more related to the general topic of in-house
payroll, not specific to BSI, but rather to the SAP environment and the
number of transport requests that the HR-payroll department seems to need in
order to make payrolls happen. If you are used to running your own payroll
systems, then perhaps this is not news, but there is a great deal of change
in personnel and especially payroll systems.

To get to the point:
BSI TaxFactory does work with SAP on the AS400. The TF60 database resides
on the AS400, and the server is an AS400 program. There is TCP RFC
communication to the BSI server. The current version 6.0 has a structure
which corresponds to the SAP system client orientation. For each SAP client
number using payroll, the TaxFactory server must have a defined "dataset" of
the same number. Each dataset (client) can have different table data.
Multiple BSI servers can be set up, and I plan to implement a second server
in order to have a separate BSI server to test updates, upgrades, and
configuration changes. We have not had any end-user department access to
the BSI tables so far in the time that BSI has been installed. BSI table
updates are applied by BASIS as necessary through the TaxFactory admin
"client" update program (installed on a Windows platform). Some updates (to
a BSI mapping table) must be made manually through the TaxFactory admin
client (since version 6.0), having to do with new tax jurisdictions. Info
for those updates are provided by SAP as text files which accompany the SAP
update transports on sapserv4. The SAP updates are applied through special
transports downloaded via ftp from sapserv4, and imported into each SAP
system (DEV, QAS, TST, PRD). There may also be payroll department
client-specific activities to cascade updates from client 000 to the useful
client(s).

I hope this provides some clarity. If so, good. If not, I can try to
address issues specifically. There is very little that is straightforward.


Regards,
Steve Chapman
California Steel Industries, Inc

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