HemanthKumar Krishnakumar

ablqw6@r.postjobfree.com 310-***-****.

SUMMARY

• 11+ years of experience as SAP HCM Functional consultant.

• Extensive experience in SAP HR Module implemented and completed 3 FULL life cycles in Benefits, Payroll and integrated

benefits, time with payroll using ASAP methodologies.

• Expertise in trouble shooting, problem solving for identified issues and problems related to Personnel administration, Organization

management, Benefits & Payroll with strong implementation QA analysis knowledge.

• Excellent skills in gathering user requirements, developing blueprint documents and conduction blueprint sessions including

review sessions for which the new “To-Be” process was modeled and Go-live with Post-go Live

• Experience in the development of business process model, end user training, FIT/GAP ANALYSIS and training document as

per client requirement.

• Created functional specs to transferred legacy data into SAP and have a good knowledge about LSMW.

• STRONG knowledge on US Payroll Schema, Rules, Custom Function and supported client with HR MINI MASTER.

• Configured ADHOC Quires and worked with BW for custom reports in benefits.

• Configured LSMW to update employee payment/deduction information into infotypes .

• Excellent Communication Skills across the team and Ability to work in a fast paced environment.

• Design and deliver high quality solutions through system configuration and/or requesting technical development that

meet overall business requirements.

• Develop documentation for systems and processes & effectively transfer knowledge to the customer for on-going support.

• Extensive experience in providing SAP HR Support and Worked with End User business community to collaborate/define HR

Business Requirement.

• Thorough knowledge with data migration, interface, Custom Payroll function, User exit and custom interfaces.

• Act as a key liaison between business user and technical team to analyze business functional requirement.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GERDAU AMERISTEEL, TAMPA, FL. OCT 10 – TILL DATE

SAP HCM PAYROLL/BENEFITS CONSULTANT.

• Customized W2 From for “New hire ACT” to make sure system displays employer social security tax exempt amount on

employee W2 in Box 12CC.

• Developed functional specs to transfer employee time data from KRNOS to SAP IT 2010.

• Configured new taxability modal, tax combo and posting attributes for new tax type 89 for Minnesota employees.

• Upgraded BSI Version 8.0 to 9.0 and from 9.0 to 10.0D, Configured PA ACT 32 as per client requirement.

• Customized payment wage type /559 split into 2 wage types 9551 (check wage type) and 9552 (Bank transfer) since check

both wage types should be posted to different GL accounts.

• Customized PCR for highly compensated employees to make sure no 401K deduction happens once when the employee

reaches 250K.

• Configured PCR for employee which compare medical deduction with 1.5% of total gross, lesser amount will be taken as

medical plan deduction.

• Configured the system to make sure Pre-tax deduction amount is not deducted from the non-taxable travel

reimbursement Wage type.

• Customized PCR for 401K loan to deduct full amount from terminated employees on severance pay check.

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• Responsible for bringing all the employees from company code ENCO to GAUS and customized US Payroll as per client

requirement.

• Responsible for bringing all TAMCO employees into SAP, customized taxability modal to make sure correct taxes are

processed for these California employees.

• Transferred Employee mid-year YTD information from Legacy to SAP into table T558B and T558C. Successfully ran ULK9

schema and updated employee CRT and TCRT to make sure all employee from company code “TAMC” receive only one

W2.

• Configured Company code SAYR for railway employees, customized payroll rule and adjusted taxability modal to deduct

employee Tier 1 and Tier 2 taxes instead of Social security and Medicare.

• Created LSMW to transfer 401K Loan data to employee additional payment/deduction (IT 0014).

• Prepared functional specs for payroll interface which transfer all the posting information from ECC 5.0 to 6.0.

• Developed functional specs to modified payroll function UGTLI to calculate imputed income for domestic partners.

• Configured Health plan like spousal surcharge which is company specific, where the employee is subjected to pay an extra

deduction amount for medical plan when both employee and spouse work for same company.

• Configured COBRA as per client requirement and developed functional specs to transfer COBRA employee information to

ACCLAIM.

• Developed Functional specs for Basis life user exit where the benefits salary should be frozen when an employee turn 65

years on or before OCT 1st.

• Configured insurance plans like Basic Life, Spousal Life and Child life which is subjected to Taxable Imputed income,

Employee is subjected to pay taxable imputed income if the employee insurance coverage is more than 50,000, Spousal life

insurance coverage is more than 20,000 and Child life insurance is more than 5,000 for year 2009 according to IRS.

• Configured Combined Coverage plans like spousal life 25K till spousal life 500K, Child life 5K to Child life 25K where

the coverage amount is derived from the combination of Basic life, Basis AD&D, supplemental life and Supplemental

AD&D.

• Configured Medical/Dental/Vision plans for Gerdau and updated annual deduction amount in timely manner.

• Customized benefits plan as per requirement and successfully integrated them to Payroll.

• Developed functional specs for outbound interfaces for benefit providers like BCBS and VSP and responsible for bringing

data from legacy to SAP.

• Configured savings plan (401K) and developed functional specs for inbound and outbound interfaces for Fidelity to transfer

employee Pre/Post tax percentage savings plan contribution into Savings plan info type..

• Developed functional specs for inbound/outbound interfaces for benefit providers like COLONIAL for insurance plans like

Long term Care (LTC) where the insurance plan amount is a flat deduction amount and not dependent on BSAL (Benefit

Salary).

• Customized remuneration statement for Gerdau to make sure system displays correct amount information in employee

remuneration statement

• Assisted the client during Year end, support pack and TUBS update.

• Developed functional specification for workman compensation report, which sends workman compensation code along

with the wages information to a third party vendor (ACE).

• Developed functional specs for TOTAL REWARD, which calculate employee eligible earnings according to employee

position/Job, which is used to calculate STI payout for all employees.

• Developed Functional specs for CONCUR interface to transfer employee information from SAP to CONCUR (Travel)

system.

BNSF RAILWAYS, TOPEKA, KS AUG 09 – OCT 10

SAP HCM PAYROLL TEAM LEAD.

• Customized a PCR for Health and welfare deduction which should not happen on a deduction of more than $300 per pay

period for 2010 and developed a process of refunding exempt medical benefits back to employee when system takes more

than $300.00 per pay period.

• Customized a PCR for Stock purchase plan and solved posting related issues for stock purchase plan.

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• Streamlined the process of Gross recollection to deduct remaining balances when an employee is terminated.

• Wrote a PCR to calculate Commission for union dues and commission should be taken only when a union due deduction

happens for an employee.

• Customized a PCR to make sure Schedule Medical deduction happens on temp exempt pay for all schedule employee.

• Configured True up wage types, tax models where employee should pay taxes on the employer portion that has been

contributed towards Employee 401K.

• Responsible for schema &C00 which calculate gross payroll for all Canadian employees and Responsible for creating rules

to activate retro’s scenarios in Canadian schema.

• Developed Functional specs for INT 411, Outbound Interface which sends the Escheated checks information to third party

vendor, assisted treasury to upload all the check date information into SAP, so right information is pulled upon running this

interface.

• Developed Functional specs for INT 311, Outbound interface which sends Canadian employees gross information from SAP

to ADP.

• Developed Functional specs for INT 313, Inbound Interface, where ADP send all the net information back to SAP Payroll/FI

system.

• Developed Functional Specs for Payroll retro analyzer report and ZHRITUPLOAD program which is used to upload

employee information in infotype like 0014, 0015, 0267 and 0221.

• Configured a separate tax model for tax authority PA, where savings plan for state, Tier 1, Tier2 and medicare should be

taken as Post-Tax and Pre-Tax for federal.

• Resolved posting issue for sick buy back 401K wage types where an employee can contribute all his sick pay to 401K

contribution after the employee gets taxed for tier 1, tier 2.

• Issue with constant 401KS because of which system started reimbursing money back to employee and supplemental plan

rule to start supplemental plan when employee reaches 16,500 YTD.

• Responsible for maintaining arrears for retro calculation for all FSA wage types so the system will always takes the old

deduction amount according to IRS rule when FSA annual contribution Pre-Tax amount changes retro.

• Responsible for configuring W2, W2C and 1099 R and assisted the client during year end.

• Worked on TUBS update, BSI Tax Factory Upgrade and Tested system to make sure taxes are calculated correctly.

• Configured system in such a way that additional state tax with holdings happens for Arizona employee (TUB 181).

• Updated Un-Employment tax rates changes in SAP and BSI.

• Developed Claims clearing process for BNSF Railways and assisted the client during open enrollment process.

SYNGENTA, GREENSBORO, NC APR 08 – JUNE 09

SAP HCM PAYROLL & BENEFITS CONSULTANT

In this project I was involved in US Payroll/Benefits full life cycle implementation.

PAYROLL:

• Implemented gross and net payroll by customizing standard schemas and PCR’s as per client requirement

• Extensively worked in cutover data conversions and data migration to bring in the legacy data to SAP.

• Responsible for creation of functional specs for Retroactivity Report, this report will track all the Wage types which have

triggered Retro including Areas Payroll and Benefit.

• Configured HR payee for benefits, taxes, regular remittance & Garnishment in third party posting and assisted the client

in third party posting issues.

• Transferred flexible spending accounts previous year claim balance from Legacy to SAP into table T558B and T558C

successfully ran ULK9 schema.

• Developed functional specs for hour’s inbound interface to transfer employee working hours into employee

remuneration infotype (2010).

• Developed Functional specs for Syngenta PAC inbound/outbound interface, configured a separate wage type for

“Syngenta PAC (Political Action Committee)”

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• Developed functional specification to modify Standard SAP delivered function UGTLI to calculate imputed income for

domestic partner.

• Developed functional specs and customized the standard posting to FI report to make sure 37.5% of all payment wage

types amount should be posted to Fringe Benefits cost center and the negative 37.5% payment wage type amount is

getting posted to the employee master cost center, both the cost center are attached to one GL account.

• Developed Functional specs for inbound and outbound loan interface, Configured wage types “401K Loan deduction”

where the deduction amount is entered in infotype (0014) and the loan amount is entered in infotype (0015). The deduction

amount is deducted for an employee until it reaches the loan amount during an employee regular payroll run.

• Created Disposable net rules for Garnishment Child support and assisted the client with garnishment related issues.

• Created Garnishment answer letter and notice letters for Child support/Alimony and created a special garnishment rule

for the state of Hawaii.

• Automated the payroll process through, Process Models by grouping the subsequent programs those are to be processed

in the HR workbench.

• Developed PCR for all Hawaii employees where the medical deduction is compared with 1.5% of employee total gross and

lesser of this deduction is taken up in payroll during an employee payroll run.

• Configured premiums and customized standard rule X930 so that the employee gets correct amount remunerated as per the

company premium rules.

• Configured symbolic accounts for all payment/deduction wage types. Mapped all the symbolic accounts to the respective

GL account and successfully did posting to finance system.

• Configured zero net check, Developed Functional specs for printing remuneration statements with net zero check.

• Adjusted payroll schema to make sure system throws an error if employee bank information infotype is not maintained

during employee payroll run.

• Modified standard rule UMST to ZUMT for Washington state with a different modifier thereby employee belongs to CROP

company code are taxed for both employee and employer work man comp and employee belongs to SEEDS company

code are taxed for employee work man comp taxes. Necessary Tax combos has been configured and attached to the Tax

modifiers along with the Tax authorities to make sure correct taxation happens during an employee payroll run.

• Configured wage type “Repeaing reward” where the amount present in the wage type should be exempt from Federal, State

Tax and subjected to FICA, Federal and State unemployment taxation.

• Configured wage type “International salary delivered abroad” for all the international assignee where can defer some

portion of amount as tax free so that he can get paid the same amount in employee home country.

• Configured wage types for “SEVERANCE PAY” for states like Washington, North Carolina, New York where the amount

present in wage types should be exempt from Federal taxes, FICA and FUI, should be taxed only at the state level and

Configured “Non Taxable Deferral Employer Contribution wage types” where the contribution made by employer

towards deferred compensation should be taxed for employee during employee payroll run.

• Configured “Limits on deduction” and a separate “Deduction modal” for “Employee Stock Purchase Plan” wage type

where the employee can contribute $3000 YTD and the deduction should happen only for the first 9 months (Jan to Sep).

• Worked as a primary contact for resolving all the issue identified during parallel payroll testing.

BENEFITS:

• Developed functional specs for outbound interfaces for benefit providers like BCBS and VSP and responsible for bringing

data from legacy to SAP.

• Configured savings plan (401K) and developed functional specs for inbound and outbound interfaces for Fidelity to transfer

employee Pre/Post tax percentage savings plan contribution into Savings plan infotype.

• Developed functional specs for inbound/outbound interfaces for benefit providers like COLONIAL for insurance plans like

Long term Care (LTC) where the insurance plan amount is a flat deduction amount and not dependent on BSAL (Benefit

Salary).

• Developed Functional specification for user exit Savings plan employer contribution where the employer contribution

matches till 3% of employee contribution and (3% + 50% match ) when employee contribution is between 3 and 5% and 6%

when employee contribution is 6% and above.

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• Configure Health plan for both Hawaii and non- Hawaii participants where for non-Hawaii participants the pre-tax deduction

amount is compared with 1.5% of employee total gross, lesser of this amount is taken for employee medical plan

deduction.

• Configured Health plan like spousal surcharge which is Syngenta specific, where the employee is subjected to pay an extra

deduction amount for medical plan when both employee and spouse work for Syngenta.

• Configured health plan for Domestic partner where the employee is subjected to pay Taxable medical Imputed income for

the employer contribution amount towards employee’s medical plan.

• Configured Health plan and customized to COBRA so COBRA kicks in when a qualifying events has been recorded.

• Configured insurance plans like Basic Life, Spousal Life and Child life which is subjected to Taxable Imputed income,

Employee is subjected to pay taxable imputed income if the employee insurance coverage is more than 50,000, Spousal life

insurance coverage is more than 20,000 and Child life insurance is more than 5,000 for year 2009 according to IRS.

• Configured insurance plans like Basic life, Basic AD&D, Short term disability and Long term disability which are age

based deduction; the deduction amounts are defaulted automatically when an employee switches from one age bucket to

another age bucket.

• Configured Combined Coverage plans like spousal life 25K till spousal life 500K, Child life 5K to Child life 25K where

the coverage amount is derived from the combination of Basic life, Basis AD&D, supplemental life and Supplemental

AD&D.

• Configured Savings Plan Catch up contribution, where an employee can contribute additional $5,500 YTD for 2009 as Pre-

Tax contribution when the employee reaches 50 years of age. Configured 401(K) savings plan, where an employee can

contribute $16,500 YTD for 2009 as pre-tax contribution during an employee regular payroll run.

• Configured Limits on deduction for Highly Compensated Employees (HCE) where the employee is not eligible for 401K

Pre-tax contribution when the employee salary reaches 245,000 YTD for 2009.

• Configured Flexible Spending accounts Health care and Flexible spending Accounts dependent care, Handled claims to

make sure claims amount are reimbursed during an employee payroll run and previous year claims has been reimbursed on

or before March 31st of current year.

• Configured open enrollment for Syngenta from Oct 1st to Oct 31st.

• Configured necessary adjustment reason which is Syngenta specific to make sure an employee can add/Delete/Change

benefit plans, dependents when a qualifying event happens for an employee.

• Configured necessary First program, second program grouping for both Hawaii and non-Hawaii employees according to

the enterprise structure to make sure correct benefits plans are defaulted for an employee during enrollment.

• Configured two different eligibility variant for regular employees and for Hawaii employees where dependent coverage

terminate at the age of 25 yrs for regular employees and dependent coverage terminate at the age of 26 for Hawaii

employees.

• Developed Configuration documents and Business process procedure as per client requirements.

• Coordinated with security team and provided different infotype access to Benefits Admin, Benefits super user and

presented configuration and the process flow in SAP to the HR super user and to the benefit admin during UAT.

• Successfully integrated benefits with payroll and involved in tweaking and comparing SAP pay stub with legacy during

parallel payroll.

IKEA, CONSHOHOCKEN, PA APR 07- MAR 08

SAP HCM TESTER

Time Management

• Developed test scripts for all attendance types like (Regular attendance, on call stand by, overtime, travel time, shift

differential, alarm pay) and absence types like (Maternity, Jury duty, Paternity, STD, vacation pay and personal day off).

• Developed test scripts, functional specs when transferring time from KRONOS to SAP to make sure time is getting

populated under correct attendance/absences infotype and attendance/absences type.

• Developed a separate test script to make sure the proper time wage types are getting generated for the appropriate

attendance/absence types during time evaluation run.

• Developed test scripts for all time wage types entered in Employee remuneration infotype (2010).

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• Developed a separate time process test script right from recording time to running time evaluation schema.

• Developed a separate test script to make sure correct number has been recorded in absence quota infotypes after time

evaluation run.

• Developed a separate test script for transaction code PT60 to make sure correct schema has been entered for time

evaluation run.

BENEFITS

• Developed test scripts for all benefits infotype and developed functional specs to transfer data from Winflux to SAP.

• Developed functional specs for inbound and outbound interfaces to transfer data from Winflux (Benefit system) to SAP via

G2 interface and responsible for bringing data from legacy to SAP system.

• Developed test scripts to check fidelity interfaces when a data is transferred from fidelity to SAP savings plan infotype.

• Developed unit test scripts for all benefits wage type configured in recurring payment/deductions. Prepared integration

test scripts to integrate with payroll to make sure proper deduction has processed.

• Developed a separate test script for infotype general benefits information to make sure all the necessary benefit area, First

program grouping and second program grouping have been populated in accordance employee enterprise structure.

INTEGRATION TEST SCRIPTS

• Developed integration test scripts which integrate all functional modules of SAP HCM in payroll.

• Developed integration test script right from creating an organization unit to running payroll for the employees hired in

that respective organization unit.

• Developed integration test scripts to make sure the correct time wage types has been processed and correct amount has

be paid to the employee.

• Developed integration tests scripts to make sure the correct deduction amount has been processed from all benefits

deduction wage types.

• Developed integration test script to make sure correct compensation wage types has been processed when the line

manager updates an employee record through MSS.

TOOLS USED:

• Used HPQC, Remedy to log all the defects/issues during integration and parallel payroll.

NEW YORK LIFE, NEW YORK FEB 07- APR 07

SAP HCM FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT (Post Production Support)

New York Life is the largest mutual life insurance company in Unites States with an annual turn over of $34 billions. New York life has

more than 20,000 employees in United States and is ranked #64 on the fortune 100 companies.

• Configured a separate Attendance quota (Overtime) for employees who belong to sub area comp of pay, time has been

recorded successfully and employee has been remunerated as per client requirement.

Configured a separate work schedule rule for job share employee with 20 hours a week instead of brining their capacity utilization level

to 50%.

Involved in Time Management Administration – Time Data, Evaluation, Work schedules and settings.

Resolved the tickets with issues related to absence types, absence quotas, and errors during time evaluation.

• Problem faced with ASAL configuration for job shares where one particular wage type has been attached twice there by the

employee ASAL went up and the corresponding BSAL went up and the deduction amount are wrong.

• Configured Priorities and arrears for a set of wage type, which should arrear when an employee has no payroll run.

• Wrote a separate PCR to stop one wage type getting paid for employees who belongs to sub area comp of pay.

• Configured a separate Payroll schema without integrating time to run payroll for all the retired employees.

• Customized the benefits module for retirees as per client requirement.

• Assisted the client in benefits module and interfaces issues during post production support.

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SFWMD, WEST PALM BEACH, FL (PUBLIC SECTOR) APR 06-JAN 07

SAP HR BENEFITS LEAD CONSULTANT.

SFWMD is a public sector company in West Palm beach, Florida.

In this project I was involved in full life cycle implementation of Benefits and integrated with payroll.

• Developed functional specs for inbound and outbound interfaces for benefit providers BVI (BUSSINESS VISION) and

responsible for bringing data from legacy to SAP.

• Configured savings plan (457 (b)) and responsible for FIDELITY inbound and outbound interfaces which transfer Loan

amount/Savings plan information in/out from SAP.

• Developed Functional specs to modify COBRA, HIPPA forms that are copied from standard client as per client requirement.

• Configured all dependents for health plans except domestic partner because domestic partner is not a valid dependent

according to state law of Florida.

• Configured Health plan and customized to COBRA so COBRA kicks in when a qualifying events has been recorded.

• Configured insurance plans like Basic Life, Spousal Life and Child life which is subjected to Taxable Imputed income,

Employee is subjected to pay taxable imputed income if the employee insurance coverage is more than 50,000, Spousal life

insurance coverage is more than 20,000 and Child life insurance is more than 5,000 for year 2009 according to IRC CODE

79.

• Configured insurance plans (Basic AD&D, Short term disability and Long term disability) which are age based

deduction; the deduction amounts are defaulted automatically when an employee switches from one age bucket to another

age bucket.

• Configured Combined Coverage plans like spousal life 25K till spousal life 100K, Child life 5K to Child life 25K where

the coverage amount is derived from the combination of Basic life, Basis AD&D, supplemental life and Supplemental

AD&D.

• Configured Savings Plan Catch up contribution, where an employee can contribute additional $5,500 YTD for 2007 as Pre-

Tax contribution when the employee reaches 50 years of age. Configured 457 (b) savings plan, where an employee can

contribute $15,500 YTD for 2007 as pre-tax contribution during an employee regular payroll run.

• Configured Flexible Spending accounts Health care and Flexible spending Accounts dependent care, Handled claims

to make sure claims amount are reimbursed during an employee payroll run and previous year claims has been reimbursed

on or before March 31st of current year.

• Configured open enrollment for SFWMD from Oct 1st to Oct 31st customized benefits for ESS to make sure the employee

login to ESS and do a self enrollment during open enrollment period.

• Configured necessary adjustment reason which is SFWMD specific to make sure an employee can add/Delete/Change

benefit plans, dependents when a qualifying event happens for an employee.

• Coordinated with security team and provided different infotype access to Benefits Admin, Benefits super user and

presented configuration and the process flow in SAP to the HR super user and to the benefit admin during UAT.

• Successfully integrated benefits with payroll and involved in tweaking and comparing SAP pay stub with legacy during

parallel payroll.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS JUL 03-DEC 05

• MASTERS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

CRESCENT COMPUTER JUN 00 – JUL 03

MUMBAI, INDIA

PA/OM:

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• Configured dynamic actions which default Hire date/Termination date in date specification infotype (0041) and a

separate action which defaults position (‘99999999’) when an employee is terminated.

• Configured Actions for organization unit and positions by populating necessary OM infotype as per client requirement.

• Customized infotype like personal data infotype like address, bank details, family and dependents through table T588M by

copying the required function module pool and calling with a different variable key in the corresponding feature.

• Configured the complete organization structure as per client requirement and maintained planned compensation infotype

which default all the required pay scale type, pay scale area, pay scale group and level in basic pay infotype.

• Configured communication infotype and the respective user name have been stored so that the employees can view their

information in ESS.

• Configured infotype menu for fast entries and configured infotype bank details (0009) as per requirement.

• Configured Additional absences data (0082) with sub type 1002 occupational accident which is used to track work related

accidents/ injuries. This infotype is being configured so risk management can track them.

• Maintained an active payroll area for all the active employees and non payroll area for all the retired employees and

terminated employees.

• Configured all the personnel actions through info groups assigned by the security team and configured all the necessary

personal actions like New hire, termination, retirement, Rehire, Inpat/Expat, Leave of absence (LOA), Return from

leave, Alternative work schedule, salary change, organization/position change as per client requirement.

• Configured all the required dynamic actions which take to resident tax area when infotype address is maintained during a

hiring action.

PAYROLL:

• Configured cumulation types, when paid cumulation for all wage types and maintained all the cumulation type

processing classes as per client requirement.

• Configured priorities and arrears for all deduction wage types, which goes to the arrear table during payroll run when an

employee is on leave of absence (LOA).

• Configured deduction frequencies and deduction model (24/26) for all benefits health and insurance plans for Bi-Weekly

employees where the employee has to pay deduction only for 24 out of 26 pay periods.

• Maintained tax relating processing classes and configured taxability model by linking tax areas with the necessary

processing classes’ specification available from processing classes 71.

• Configured symbolic accounts with type “C” for all employee

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