The Planning & Budget Office and EASI have implemented a “made @ U of T” approach to compensation planning, with improvements to the existing SAP tool (B6). This solution delivers many of the improvements sought by U of T’s financial planning community, while retaining the robust security, performance and familiar interface of the SAP platform.

This solution better meets departmental and divisional needs for accurate, multi-year compensation planning, and improves U of T’s long-range operating budget process – a process that accounts for 70 percent of the University’s total expenditures.

Beyond maintaining the core functionality of the current SAP B6 application, this tool supports a more efficient compensation planning process and provides the flexibility for future expansion as U of T’s needs change.

This solution launched on February 14, 2022 for the 2022-23 budget planning process.

BENEFITS

Benefits of the new compensation planning tool include:  

• An improved, intuitive user experience, data analysis and validation that builds on the familiarity of the existing B6 tool.  
• Long-range compensation planning with a six-year planning outlook and salary increase projections.  
• A holistic view of compensation, which expands beyond the current data on appointed staff to include  appointed hourly and non-appointed staff.  
• Salary increase scenario planning, which allows divisional users to input long range increase assumptions for various employee groups 
• Simplified compensation projections by automating  USW grid step salary increase provision calculations (e.g. ATB, PTR, Merit, Grid etc.).