Batch Element Entry (BEE) enables payroll to enter batches of element entries, validate that the entries are correct and then transfer the entries to the employee’s element entries.

Batch Element Entry also provides the following functionality:

* Batch Header identifies the batch and determines what happens if any of the batch lines duplicate existing element  entries.

*  Batch Lines enable payroll to create batches by Element with the relevant Input Values for processing in payroll.  Defaults can be initiated for faster data entry.

*  BEE provides the ability to validate batches prior to submitting.  
    This feature enables payroll to identify incorrect employee assignment numbers, elements that are not eligible for
    employees, etc.

*  Provides the ability to use Control Totals to help validate the batch.

*  Messages that indicate if batches are out of balance with control totals, in valid employee assignment numbers, etc.

*  BEE Spreadsheet Interface - Enables the loading of payroll data from various sources into BEE using the delivered BEE Spreadsheet Interface tool. 

*  BEE API -   PAY_BATCH_ELEMENT_ENTRY_API.CREATE_BATCH_HEADER for Header

                    PAY_BATCH_ELEMENT_ENTRY_API.CREATE_BATCH_LINE for Element Line Data

 

The BEE could be implemented with the help of following approaches:

1. Programmatically populating the header records and the line records in the BEE tables based on the data file available.
2. Entering input values and other data for one element, and running a concurrent process to create identical batch lines for all the assignments in an assignment set.
3. Creating an element set and making entries for each element in the set, one assignment at a time.
   
4. Selecting an element and creating or updating lines for this element using defaults to speed entry, and changing defaults as necessary when working through the batch.