Labor Processing Overview—Non-Lawson Payroll

This procedure provides an overview of the business process for salary encumbrance, labor distribution, effort reporting and labor cost transfers when you pay employees using a non-Lawson payroll system. Links to more specific procedures are provided in the steps below.

Overview of Labor Processing for Employees Paid Using a Non-Lawson Payroll System

To process labor for employees paid using a non-Lawson payroll system

  1. Create and maintain employee data in Lawson. Creating and maintaining employee data in Lawson
  2. Create and maintain labor distribution templates for grant employees. This process is the same for employees paid using Lawson payroll or a non-Lawson payroll. Defining Labor Distribution Templates
  3. Process salary encumbrances for employees. This process is the same for employees paid using Lawson payroll or a non-Lawson payroll. Processing Salary Encumbrances
  4. Process transactions from the non-Lawson payroll system to enable labor distribution, relieve salary encumbrances, capture data for effort reporting, and post transactions to Lawson Financials. Processing the non-Lawson Payroll Transaction Import
  5. Process effort reporting for employees. The effort reporting process is the same for employees paid using Lawson payroll or a non-Lawson payroll. Processing Effort
  6. If necessary, process labor cost transfers for employees. Processing Labor Cost Transfer Distributions