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Critical Business Impacts

What You Need to Know

  • Personnel Actions Freeze: No HR or payroll activity during July 17–19 
  • SAP system closure: Multiple system downtimes beginning July 7 
  • Delayed Hiring Actions: Future bi-weekly hires (post–July 25) deferred until go-live 
  • Timekeeping Dependencies: Strict deadlines for employee entry and supervisor approvals

Important dates for anyone responsible for entering/approving Personnel Actions in SAP (PA30 & PA40):

Phase 1: Prepare critical systems and transactions (June 22 – July 6) 
  • Ensure departments are ready for system transition, and all critical transactions are identified and submitted.

Thursday, June 11

  • Early access to S/4. Take time to check out the new system.

Monday, June 22

  • Following the July 1 annual salary download, scheduled for June 19 at 5 p.m., Campus Departments/Business Officers must review employee salaries, which includes across-the-board increases for campus employees. Submit any adjustments through the appropriate personnel action.

Wednesday, July 1

  • Departments/Business Officers must review SAP transaction codes.  
  • Identify the T-codes used for daily operations and reporting. Compile a list to save as favorites in S/4 when personalizing the home dashboard. 
  • Enter hiring actions for Biweekly 15, Biweekly 16, and the July monthly payrolls into SAP as early as possible to allow sufficient time for workflow completion. 
  • For bi-weekly start dates after Sunday, July 25, hiring actions must be held and entered after the S/4 launch on Monday, July 20, unless submitted prior to July 6.

Monday, July 6

  • Departments/Business Officers must enter and submit all hiring actions to Compensation by 5 p.m. This includes all start dates within Bi-weekly 15 (Sunday, June 28 – Saturday, July 11). 
 
Phase 2: Payroll Lock & Transaction Completion (July 7 – July 15)  
  • Finalize payroll-related transactions and ensure data accuracy before system downtime. 

Monday, July 13 (NOON)

  • Deadline for Departments/Business Officers to enter corrections for Bi-weekly 15 hiring actions. 

Wednesday, July 15 (NOON)

  • Deadline for Departments/Business Officers to enter corrections for July Monthly hiring actions.      

 

Phase 3: System Downtime (July 16 – July 19) 
  • Complete migration to SAP S/4

Thursday, July 16

  • Last day to access legacy SAP 

Friday, July 17 – Sunday, July 19

  • SAP will be OFFLINE for migration to S/4 
  • Full system outage (no SAP access) 
  • Migration to S/4 will be in progress 
  • No processing of personnel actions 
  • No petty cash processing  
  • Emergency contact: Payroll (Missy Wilson) 

 

Phase 4: Go-Live (July 20 – July 27) 
  • Resume operations and ensure successful adoption in S/4 
  • Use compiled list of T-codes for daily operations and reporting to add as favorites in S/4 to personalize your home dashboard S/4. 
  • For the first time entry in S/4, encourage early entry and approval for Bi-weekly 16 (Saturday, July 12 – Sunday, July 25) to ensure you can complete early reporting and confirm all employees are on track to be paid accurately and timely.

Monday, July 20: S/4 Go Live   

  • S/4 will be available to all users. 
  • All personnel actions, including hiring actions for start dates after July 25, may resume. 
  • Department/Business Officers must enter all hiring actions for start dates within Bi-weekly 16 (Sunday, July 12 – Saturday, July 25) and submit to Compensation by 5pm.

Thursday, July 23  

  • Business Officers should run reports to ensure all information has been processed correctly.

Friday, July 24 

  • Encourage employees to check pay statements within myUK.

Monday, July 27

  • Deadline for Departments/Business Officers to enter corrections for Bi-weekly 16 hiring actions.