Before adding employers, you must set up the enterprise. The Sage HRMS enterprise feature lets you handle a group of employers as one. 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. Although it is not an employer, it appears in the list of employers on your system.
The enterprise has no employees. The employees are associated with their 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 specifications for each employer.
The enterprise feature helps you in two ways:
- It is a time saver when setting up standards for all employers in your system, such as code tables and benefit plans. You can manipulate the data from several employers at one time instead of working with individual employers on identical tasks one at a time.
- It provides a panoramic view. The information from all your employers is available when you are viewing data or printing reports.
Enterprise saves time
The enterprise feature saves you time when setting up and managing multiple employers.
Example: You have an umbrella corporation called National Systems, with three subsidiary employers called Corporation A, Corporation B, and Corporation C. The umbrella company (National Systems) and its three subsidiaries all have the same benefit plans.
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 employers, 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—creating a unique benefit plan for this employer without having to create it from scratch.
The enterprise also efficiently handles changes to your setup. 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 changing it three times. The rate change you make at the enterprise level affects every employer in your system except those who have unique dental plans.
Enterprise provides a panoramic view
Use the enterprise feature to see a panoramic view of information in Sage HRMS. When you print a report and select the enterprise, 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 access data for all employers in the system.