This newsletter provides SAP HCM tips on payroll control record issues, ABAP OO, new fields in Travel & Expense, translation of organisational objects, UK RTI and BACS, leave requests, and PDF-payslips.
We’re also sharing some blog discussions and podcasts on staffing (and over-staffing) SAP HCM and cloud HR projects, project management in hybrid environments, and change management in SAP HCM projects.
Tips on SAP HCM
Expenses: New Fields for Receipts after Upgrade to EHP6
Enhancement Package provides some new fields for additional receipt data. After applying EHP 6 these fields are set to „display“ per default, which could easily cause confusion for some users. So, check them out early on, decide which ones you really want to use, and communicate changes, while hiding the rest of the new fields to keep the user interface clean.
How to Clone ABAP OO Objects
If you build new ABAP OO developments, be it for HCM or other modules, as often as we do, you’ll know this issue: you want to simulate something during development and therefore need a temporary copy of a particular object.
ESS and MSS: Deletion of Leave Request not Processed
Problem: Employees can request the deletion of infotype 2001 and 2002 records in ESS through the leave request service. Even though these requests are approved (they are automatically approved immediately, if no approval process is active), report RPTARQPOST doesn’t delete these records…
Manage Multiple Languages in Custom Developments for OM
For objects in OM you can easily capture texts in several languages. But you need to be aware of the concepts behind it, when designing custom developments for OM in a multi-lingual environment.
Travel Management Tips from the SCN
The travel management community on the SCN has always some interesting discussions going on. here are two recent posts:
- Questions on integration with FI, when Travel and FI are on different systems. This one is more for beginners.
- And here’s something many may not be aware of: changing payment method in infotype 0009 does not affect the vendor master
Payroll International
SAP Payslips in PDF (Adobe Forms): How to Save Many Payslips in One File
Ever more SAP Payroll users switch to PDF files for payslip forms – often using the opportunity, when they need to change the payslip anyway due to changes in statutory requirements (such as the recent new legislation for payslips in Germany). However, some users struggle with handling those PDFs – get some tips here.
Payroll Correction Flag in Transaction PU03 Can’t be Changed
If an employee has a flag for payroll correction set (which, amongst other things, means you can’t exit the payroll in transaction PA03), you should be able to delete this flag using the button „Delete Payroll Correction“ in transaction PU03. However, as a side-effect of note 1807687, this is not working any more once this note is implemented. Read more…
UK Payroll
Double Check, Whether Your BACS file is RTI Compliant
We’ve recently seen that several SAP customers in the UK, who are live with RTI, still do not comply with RTI rules on their BACS file without even being aware of it…
RTI discussions from the SAP Community Network:
- Dealing with errors using repeat runs
- Explaining, why NI values in RT and RTINI don’t necessarily match
SAP HCM and HRIS Strategy
Interview: Staffing HR Cloud Projects and Avoiding a Rip-off
Some things make me angry – and ripping of customers by dramatically over-resourcing projects is one of them. Read here, how a rant on the SCN lead to SAP Insider interviewing me on staffing and managing HR cloud projects like Successfactors. This post is referring to HR cloud projects, but similar problems can be observed in SAP HCM on-premise projects as well.
3 Hands-on Techniques for Managing Operational Change in HRIS Projects
When IT or business managers talk about HRIS implementations, more often than not they soon get to the point that, whilst the implementation was technically “successful”, it failed to meet all the expectations and get users on board. Read about the nature of change in HRIS projects and take away 3 basic change techniques you can apply in your SAP HCM or Successfactors projects on a day to day basis.
Podcast: How Project Management Changes, When Moving to SAP+Cloud Hybrid HR Solutions
The international SAP HCM Insights Team, including the director of iProCon UK, published a podcast about how project management is different in a hybrid HCM solution (e.g. SAP HR + Successfactors) compared to a pure on-premise context…
From the SCN: Full time culture and the non-value-adding middle man
A blog article on the SAP Community Network from our UK director. He’s discussing, why full time assignments and middle men, both phenomena much more common in the UK than, e.g., in Germany, do often destroy value, and when you should avoid them. There is a lifely discussion on the SCN and elsewhere and you are invited to join in.
Events in SAP HCM
iProCon at the SAP UKI Usergroup Conference, Birmingham 24.-26. Nov. 2013
This year’s conference of the UK and Ireland SAP User Group marks the organisation’s 25th anniversary. If you are attending, drop by at our exhibition pod (stand number B12) to say hello or discuss any SAP HCM ideas or issues you may have. Check it out!
iProConference: 18./19. March 2014 in Hamburg (German language!)
Two days with a choice of 24 sessions full of SAP HCM best practice from our customers and consultants as well as partners. This is an event you definitely should recommend your colleagues of any German speaking subsidiaries. Or consider attending yourself, if your German is up to speed: we’re always available for one2one discussions in English between sessions to clarify any open questions. René Schumann, product manager from SAP will open the event with interesting news and the first day will end with the traditional evening event, this time in the tropical aquarium of „Hagenbeck“ (no wet suit required).
Find the full conference program in German language here and use this link for online registration.
If you are interested in an English language event in the UK, please drop us a line and we’ll get in touch, as soon as one is scheduled.
Our New Website and Linkedin Page
You’ll find our website www.iprocon.com in a new design based on WordPress. Most notably, it will allow us to share tips, articles, etc. even more and faster under the „HR Blog“ menu, which comprises SAP HCM with various sub-categories as well as some other topics. Check it out and share interesting posts with your colleagues or start a discussion in the comments field.
Our Twitter feed has always been popular for sharing more than just the tips on our website, but also insights from other industry experts we are engaging with. If you aren’t following yet, why not do it now?
Alternatively check out and follow our new company profile on Linkedin. Another way to stay in touch with the latest in SAP HCM.
