Optimizing HR and Payroll Processes with Lesser-Known Microsoft Dynamics GP Modules

There's more to human resources and payroll than hiring and cutting checks, according to Jodi Christiansen, Partner Technology Specialist, Microsoft.

"Many companies are very comfortable doing the hiring and payroll using the standard processes, but maybe there are other things in your organization that you need to keep track of and wouldn't it be nice to keep it all within one system," Christiansen said during a Microsoft webinar for members of the Dynamics GP User Group. "Perhaps you need to streamline some of the processes and procedures in your organization. Maybe you have to improve the efficiency and accuracy of your human resource or payroll activity through the integration of your core HR or payroll [systems] to some of the other modules we have available within Dynamics GP."

Or, she said, perhaps companies need to enhance or better control the information they have within their systems to get better visibility into their human resources and payroll processes to reduce time consuming and manual processes as well as errors by extending their core functionality into Dynamics GP, she added.

"We also want to help empower the people in your organization to make confident decisions about their benefits by looking at the availability of those benefits online within a simple tool you can use to do your benefit open enrollment," she said. "Your employees can also manage their profiles and the information that's being kept tracked for them out in the system. That makes it less burdensome for the people in HR or payroll departments if the employees can do some of those things themselves."

Some of the modules around payroll Christiansen mentioned include:

Payroll extensions: This is a free download for GP10 ...