The Personnel/Payroll System (PPS) contains various databases, tables, reports, and security features which allows departments to enter and update employee related data, access information on-line or in a report, and give access to those employees within the organization who need access. Within the PPS, there are several databases or subsystems that departments can use in order to process personnel actions, generate pay for employees, and produce reports for employees or about the employees in the organization. The on-line applications main menu for the Personnel/Payroll system is shown below:

UCMMNU0-M1325                Online Applications              05/21/YY 19:58:01
                                  Main Menu                    Userid:  ABCDE   
                                                                                
  ---- Employee Data Base ----             ------ PAN Subsystem -------         
   IEDB  Central Inquiry                    PSRV  PAN Services Menu             
   IDDB  Departmental Inquiry              -- Payroll Time Reporting --         
   EEDB  EDB Entry/Update                   ETHF  THF Entry/Update              
   IDOC  Employee Documents                 IDTC  Dept Time Collect             
  --- Payroll Audit Record ---              EDAT  Dept Adj Trans                
   IPAR  Inquiry                           ---- Abeyance Data Base ----         
   IPAY  Departmental Inquiry               SPCL  Special Processes             
  ---- History Data Base -----             ------ CSER Subsystem ------         
   IHDB  Record Inquiry/Update              EFCR Encumbrance Entries            
   IHIS  Personnel History                 --- ID Number Subsystem ----         
   IHHR  History Documents                  EDEM  ID Numbers Main Menu          
                                           --- System Administration --         
                                            UCSA  Entry/Update                  
  -- Employment Verification -                                                  
   IVER  Verification                                                           
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The following applications are all part of the PPS:

• The Employee Data Base (EDB) contains information for individual employees such as pay rate, title, begin and end date, hire date, birth date, address, benefits, W-4 exemptions, and other information related to the employee. Each active employee record on the EDB should have at least one appointment and one distribution. Appointments are established to define the terms and conditions of employment with the University. Distributions are established to define how the employee is paid. Most of the data on the EDB is current.
• The Payroll Audit Record (PAR) contains transactions that were processed through the pay compute process for an individual employee. Up to one year's worth of transactions can be found in the Payroll Audit Record.
• The History Data Base (HDB) contains historical personnel data for individual employees.
• Employment Verification (IVER) uses both the EDB and HDB information to produce a printed Employment verification for employees.
• A web version of Post Audit Notification (PAN) was implemented at UCLA to provide an audit log of transactions that were processed on-line and a PAN notice to departmental reviewer(s).  In addition, AIS developed the DACSS Distributed Access system which is used by many of the on-line applications on campus. DACSS is a mechanism for the department security administrator to grant access to the on-line applications with the approval of the Chief Administrative Officer.
• Payroll Time Reporting (PTR) contains screens used by departments and central offices to update the transaction holding file with transactions for employees that should be processed for specific paydays.
• Committed Salary Expenditure Reporting (CSER) Subsystem is used by departments to manually enter salary and benefit costs for personnel actions not yet recorded on the EDB for inclusion in the CSER process.
• The Abeyance Data Base is used by Payroll Services to process adjustments requested by the department.
• The ID Number Subsystem is not used at UCLA. UCLA has its own ID system (UID) which is also used by other systems at UCLA.
• Most of the functions in System Administration (UCSA) are used by Payroll Services, however, there is one function that may be used by departments to select a printer in order to print notices to employees, employment verifications, and/or a Payroll time reporting check list.

Personnel/Payroll System Process

The Personnel/Payroll system process begins when an employee is hired by a UCLA department or organization. The new employee then reports to work, fills out the necessary paperwork, and begins to work. The EDB is then updated by the department and the process begins.  A diagram of how the PPS process should work is shown below.