Before adding employers and setting up their different requirements, you must set up the enterprise. The Sage HRMS enterprise feature lets you handle a group of employers as one. The enterprise is an efficient time-saver used to manage multiple employers. The enterprise has no employees, but it does provide access to code tables that set the standards for your system.
The enterprise lets you group employers together and handle them as one. An enterprise is not actually an employer, even though it appears in a list of employers on your system. The enterprise has no employees, but it does help you establish standards for all the employers in your system.
Think of the enterprise as the "corporate level," encompassing all employers under a single umbrella. You have only one enterprise in your system, but you can have numerous employers.
Each employer can have different setup specifications, such as different codes for the jobs in the company or different salary grade structures. When you set up your employers, you can specify different sets of specifications for each employer.
The enterprise feature saves you time when you are setting up and managing multiple employers. For example, you have an umbrella corporation called National Systems, Inc., with three subsidiary employers called A Corp., B Corp., and C Corp. The umbrella company, National Systems, and its three subsidiaries all have the same benefit plans.
If you are using Sage HRMS, all the codes in the enterprise benefit plan code table apply to all employers in your system, unless you set up a different plan for a particular employer. Therefore, when you first set up your three corporations, A Corp., B Corp., and C Corp., they automatically use the enterprise benefit plan code tables. You do not have to set up separate benefit plans for each employer because they all conform to the enterprise standards.
If you need to set up a unique plan for one of your employers, the enterprise still saves you time. Copy an enterprise benefit plan to the employer, make your changes and save the benefit table with an employer code. Now you have a unique benefit plan for this employer and you did not have to create it from scratch.
The enterprise also efficiently handles changes to your setup. For example, if you have a rate change in a dental plan and three employers use the enterprise dental plan, simply change the rate once in the enterprise dental plan rather than three times. The rate change you make at the enterprise level affects every employer in your system except those who have unique dental plans.
Use the enterprise feature to see a panoramic view of information in Sage HRMS. For example, when you print a report, select the enterprise and Sage Sage HRMS prints information from all your employers in one report. When using the filter feature to control the information you want to use, select the enterprise to give yourself access to data for all employers in the system.