This topic lists the processes and reports for Employer Shared Responsibility Reporting Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This topic also discusses any prerequisites that you must complete before you can run any of the processes.

For an overview, see: Employer Shared Responsibility Reporting Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Administration

Processes:

1. Benefits ACA Archive Process

   See: Running the Benefits ACA Archive Process

2. Benefits ACA Transmission XML Generation Process: Generates the necessary output files to submit Form 1094/1095-C data to the ACA Information Return (AIR) system.

   See: Running the Benefits ACA Transmission XML Generation Process

3. Benefits ACA Process Error Data XML: Marks the applicable records as failed or incorrect for those IRS error data XML files that you upload to the Update Transmission Details page.

   See: Running the Benefits ACA Process Error Data XML Program

4. Benefits ACA Correction Archive Process: Archives the corrected data. Run this process after records are marked failed or incorrect by the Benefits ACA Process Error Data XML program and all applicable errors are corrected.

   See: Running the Benefits ACA Correction Archive Process

5. Benefits ACA Purge Process

   See: Running the Benefits ACA Purge Process

Reports:

1. Benefits ACA 1095C Print Report

   See: Running the Benefits ACA 1095C Print Report

2. Benefits ACA 1095C Print Report Multi Thread

   See: Running the Benefits ACA 1095C Print Report Multi Thread Process

3. Benefits ACA Errors Report: Generates an output report in PDF format with error details extracted from the error XML data files that are returned by the IRS.

   See: Running the Benefits ACA Errors Report

These concurrent programs are added to the Request Group of the seeded US Super HRMS Manager responsibility. If you use any custom equivalent responsibility, then you must add these processes to the custom responsibility.

Prerequisite Steps for the Employer Shared Responsibility Reporting Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Processes:

Complete the following steps for the Employer Shared Responsibility Reporting Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) processes:

Prior to running the reporting processes, define Batch Process Parameters to ensure optimal performance.

To define Batch Process parameters:

1. Log in to the US HRMS Manager (or equivalent) responsibility.

2. Navigate to the Batch Process Parameters window.

3. Select Benefits ACA Archive Process and set the applicable number of threads, chunk size and/or max errors. This batch process is applicable to the following processes:

   Benefits ACA Archive Process

   Benefits ACA 1095C Print Report Multi Thread process: Note that while the Benefits ACA Print Process is selected as the process to set the batch process parameters, only the Benefits ACA 1095C Print Report Multi Thread process will run as multi-threaded.

For further information on Benefits batch process parameters, refer to the My Oracle Support Document 226987.1 - Oracle 11i & R12 Human Resources (HRMS) & Benefits (BEN) Tuning & System Health Checks.