Garnishment management can be a complex process for companies that manage their Payroll in house. One client of Systematica uses Dynamics GP for both Payroll and Payables and uses the Payroll to Payables integration in order to pay employee garnishments.  The government requires that the garnishment checks include the employee’s last name and the check-date together on the remittance.  This data is not available out-of-the-box, GP simply creates vouchers for each garnishment without passing any data that ties the payables voucher back to the payroll records that created them.  The client was currently opening each garnishment voucher and replacing the document ID (which is a sequentially generated field just used for reference) with the employee name and date.  Our goal was to replace this with a simple command button that would update all of the garnishment document IDs with the employee ID and check date.

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