The Value of Linking Sage HRMS to Sage 300 CRE

If you’re in construction or real estate, you already know that managing the many aspects of your business is complicated, from projects to employees. But did you also know that combining a strong human resources management system with your current CRE software can make the job simpler?

After all, HR and Payroll personnel juggle the multiple challenges of the industry, and facilitating their work will provide benefits company-wide.

Single-Point of Data Entry 

A central repository for employee data is at the heart of Sage HRMS and provides single-point data entry, a time-saving advantage for HR in businesses using Sage CRE 300. Employees’ demographic information and updates, job titles, pay rates, deductions, and more are entered once and then transferred to CRE Payroll avoiding duplicate entry and the errors that can result. Maintaining complete employee records in a central database makes company organization and generating payroll more efficient. Sage HRMS includes validation and auditing functions to ensure information is accurate before it’s transferred—something HR will appreciate.

Reporting and Compliance

Sage HRMS tracks time-off, hire, termination, and rehire history. Tracking variable-time employees, it lets you know when they are eligible for company benefits or when they are approaching fulltime status requiring you to offer coverage in compliance with the Affordable Care Act. In addition, the HRMS generates compliance reports for other federal regulations to help you stay compliant.

Expanding the Capabilities of HR

Streamlining Human Resources operations has another advantage in addition to saving time, reducing errors, and creating a central data base: It supports your HR personnel’s efforts to direct more attention to strategic business concerns. Freed from the tedium of many routine tasks, these staff members will have additional time to engage in company-wide discussions, contributing their knowledge and insight to long-term planning.

Integrating Sage CRE 300 with Sage HRMS

Linking these two powerful products is easier than you may think, and it transforms how HR does its work. With a tool for data conversion, we make a one-time transfer of employee demographic information from Sage 300 CRE into Sage HRMS. This populates employee records in Sage HRMS, then from that point on, all employee information, including updates and new hires, will be entered into Sage HRMS.

The data will then flow from Sage HRMS to CRE 300 Payroll. In addition to employee demographics, the export interface will include pay rate, job title, benefit deduction amount, employer fringe amounts. If customizations have been created in CRE, they can be mapped to custom fields created in Sage HRMS.