The five-stage processing chain
ConceptfoundationThe ordered sequence reported time passes through: entry validation, exception resolution, calculation, consumer validation, and transfer.
What people get wrong
The confusions are the difficulty. Each one is a belief that sounds right and is not.
- That calculation happens before validation. It does not: calculation runs on data entry validation accepted.
- That a missing payslip line means payroll is misconfigured. Payroll only shows what survived all five stages.
Recall it
State the five Time and Labor processing stages in order and name who acts at each one.
Entry rules validate (automatic). Managers resolve entry exceptions. Calculation rules derive (automatic). Consumer validation checks (delivered by each consumer). Time consumer administrators transfer.
Memory hook: Validate, Resolve, Derive, Check, Transfer. Only two stages need a person, and those are the two people forget to chase.
Rests on OTL-CHAIN-001.
Taught in
- The Time and Labor mental modelWhat Time and Labor actually decides, why the processing order matters, and how to think about a time problem from the first stage rather than the last.
- The Worker Time Processing ProfileHow one profile controls validation, calculation and processing for a whole population of workers, and the three constraints that catch most configuration mistakes.
Related
- Terminology glossary — what a term means, and what people get wrong when they use it