This newsletter brings you tips and insights about SAP’s HCM roadmap incl. end-of-maintenance, SAP HR authorisations, UK payroll (e.g. the new holiday pay), Concur Travel & Expense, and SAP Mobile – incl. some easy to consume videos and event announcements
1st Things 1st: SAP’s Cloud Centric Strategy –
End of Maintenance for SAP HCM On-Premise
Before we even look at the table of contents, some points all SAP HCM customers should know:
Some customers still seem unaware of or confused about the roadmap for HCM (incl. Travel 6 Expense). Therefore, here are the essentials:
- After Talent Management in 2015, SuccessFactors has now become the official „go forward solution“ for the whole of HCM.
- For Travel and Expense, Concur is the go forward solution.
- The „go forward solutions“ are those, where you can expect most of the innovation, whilst the other solutions only receive limited „selected innovation“ investment. Go forward solutions include payroll in the „Employee Central Payroll“ solution, which is using the technical solution you know from on-premise, but is hosted by SAP.
- For all of on-premise HCM, maintenance and support are only guaranteed until 2025 (which is a very long time, to be fair).
- So, it’s clear, that customers need to think about their roadmap. It’s not only SAP, but the whole industry that’s focusing investment on the cloud. So, your roadmap is very likely to point towards „cloud“ eventually – and SAP arguably offers the most well rounded vision in the market.
- At the moment, the innovation happening in the cloud and advanced features are a stronger reason to move than the deadline looming far in the future.
- So, no need to panic – but also no justification for inertia.
If you need any clarification or want help to build your HR systems strategy and roadmap, get in touch: info@iprocon.com.
iProCon has a long history in on-premise SAP HCM and as a partner has certified consultants in both SuccessFactors and SAP HCM and is a partner of Concur in the UK and Germany. We also work with American partners to bring on board a level of SuccessFactors expertise almost impossible to find in Europe.
Content Summary
- New UK Holiday pay
- Run payroll as-if simulations without changing the actual data
- Strategy: on-premise HR Systems and Competitive Advantage plus a review of the SAP-Insider HR2015 Europe conference
- Time-Dependent Authorisation for SAP HR Master Data
- New features in Concur Travel & Expense, incl. Outlook Meeting Integration
- Concur-Lufthansa Partnership Commitment to Europe and Trouble for GDS providers?
- SuccessFactors Reporting, incl. ad-hoc reporting and Dashboard 2.0 with Youcalc
- Mobile apps: Initial thoughts on Fiori & SAPUI5 development, as well as an example custom MSS app: „Where Is My Team?“
Payroll
iProSIM: Making as-if Simulations in SAP Payroll Safe and Efficient
How would a certain change affect an employee’s payslip?
Whether it’s a change in pension contribution, new working time or adding a child care voucher. Figuring out, what exactly the impact of a change would be for an employee is part of a payroll admin’s everyday job and doing it quickly and every time is part of a good service.
Get the product brochure here,
… or watch a storyboard video describing the benefits of the simulation tool here,
… or watch the demonstration video here,
UK Holiday Pay in SAP Payroll
We offer a fixed price solution to achieve a fast and safe implementation of the new UK Holiday Pay rules in as little as 2 weeks and under 5k based on templates. Find out more…
New UK Holiday Pay: Technical Options in SAP HR Payroll
From our last blog about the new Holiday pay ruling (June Newsletter), hopefully you now have an idea of what you are going to pay your employees for their uplifted holiday pay. Now, how do we configure SAP Payroll? Read more…
New UK Holiday Pay – Special Cases in SAP HR Payroll
We’ve covered the typical decision points for the new UK holiday pay and the respective technical options in SAP Payroll so far. Now we use a few “special cases”. On the agenda: seasonal peaks, annual leave woven into the work schedule without using absences, overtime payments not assigned to a particular day, and using in-period values (“as paid”) rather than for-period values (“as earned”) to calculate the averages for top-ups. Read more…
SAP HCM
Time-Dependent Authorisation for SAP HR Master Data
With the May Support Package for HCM SAP created a new authorization object „Authorization Time Periods for HR Master Data (P_DURATION)“ for system with the version 6.04 – 6.08 (ERP 6.0 with EHP 4 – 8). Read more….
Initial Thoughts on Fiori & SAPUI5 Developments for On-Premise Solutions
At our iProConference back in May, there was great interest in the benefits of HR cloud solutions -– improved usability and mobile applications being high up on the agenda. The good news is that SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 (a.k.a. OpenUI5) can help you to bring about mobile user-friendliness to your on-premise solutions -– without having to completely re-invent your processes around the mobile platform. Read more…
SAPUI5/Fiori: A Simple MSS Mobile App „Where Is My Team?„
This article showcases a relatively simple custom SAPUI5 mobile app created by iProCon, called “Where Is My Team?”: allowing a Manager to get an overview on their mobile phone of what their team is doing on a particular day and contacting them with a tap on the screen. Read more…
And check out the MSS mobile app demo video
Concur Travel and Expense
Concur Outlook Meeting Integration & Other Exciting Developments for 2015 Q1
We think that Concur is a great Expense solution, and I am excited to see Concur continuously improving and streamlining processes. Let’s take a look through some of the new features including Outlook meeting integration and traveller messaging that you can easily use to enhance your expenses processing. Read more…
Concur-Lufthansa Partnership Commitment to Europe and Trouble for GDS providers?
Lufthansa Group is the latest TripLink Partner of Concur starting in 2016. This is not only great news for Concur users, who travel a lot with Lufthansa, because they can now book directly at the Lufthansa website and still have the data flowing directly into Concur. It is also great news for the whole European market,… Read more…
SuccessFactors
HR Reporting and Analytics in SuccessFactors – Part 1
SuccessFactors provides a lot of content in their modules from Recruitment Management to Employee Central to Compensation and one of the biggest things they advertise, is the library of more than 2,000 standard metrics, industry benchmarks, and HR best practices in SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics that help measure the things that matter. That sounds great in the first instance, but it can be a huge challenge at the same time. Read more…
Standard & Ad Hoc Reporting in SuccessFactors – Part 2
Reporting belongs to the platform features that SuccessFactors pre delivers. It doesn’t matter which module you subscribe to, the Org Chart, Welcome Page with Tiles, Employee Profile and Reporting and Admin Tools will be in it. Depending on the module, you will also get some ad hoc standard reports and dashboards (1.0 or 2.0). Read more…
Visual Reporting with Custom Dashboard 2.0 Reports in SuccessFactors – Part 3
Dashboard 2.0 Reports are visual reports in SuccessFactors. Some of these reports are pre-delivered, while others can be ordered (for a fee). These visual reports have a pretty nice design and can be used as a Tile on the Welcome page as well. The Dashboards are built using an client based (i.e. installed on a PC) tool called YouCalc Dashboard Builder (stand-alone software). Read more…
HRIS Strategy
SAP-Insider HR2015 in Nice: For Whom the Bell Tolls
This is my personal summary of the SAP HR conference HR2015 in Nice. I was busy with my own sessions and talking to so many brilliant people – Customers, Partners, SAP employees – all day about SuccessFactors, Concur Travel&Expense, SAP HCM, SAP Payroll and the overall SAP strategy, that there was barely time to attend any sessions. But I want to share the top 10 messages I took away from these conversations. Read more…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: on-premise HR Systems and Competitive Advantage
If you’d like to know how William Shakespeare can answer the question, whether HR Software as a Service destroys competitive advantage, then keep reading…
3 SAP White Papers for Download
We are running a campaign to help SAP customers understand their strategic options with cloud HCM – sharing 3 interesting SAP white papers:
- Top 10 reasons to move to the cloud
- Making HR a strategic force: customer case studies
- Questions CIOs ask cloud HR vendors – and some answers
Register here to download the white papers or contact us from your business email address at info@iprocon.com and we’ll send them over.
Selected Posts from the SCN (SAP Community Network)
- Options for on-premise SAP HCM to integrate with S/4 HANA (but not being part of S/4)
- A summary on the New UK Holiday pay and an opportunity to join the discussion.
- The red button test for the cloud HCM market – have large system integrators really embraced cloud by now?
- More relevant than ever, a look at resourcing options for SAP HCM and more importantly cloud HCM projects.
- The SuccessFactors Employee Central Organisation Structure
- An interesting customer question on the sequence of implementation for SuccessFactors modules.
- Some fun and heartfelt article from a customer longing to be heard: “Are you there, SAP? It’s me, Jelena.”
Events for SAP HCM
SuccessConnect Europe November 9-11 in Rome
http://successconnect2015.com/rome
Benefit from early bird registration for SuccessConnect in Rome. Check out the customer level admin trainings on Day one before the actual conference sessions start on 10th November.
We will be there from 6th November – 11th November. So, why not get in touch before the conference to arrange for a catch-up in Rome: info@iprocon.com
Concur Workshops 29th September in Frankfurt, Germany (German Language!)
A one day workshop for customers interested in Concur Travel and Expense or those still considering, whether they should switch from SAP on-premise Travel Management to Concur: https://iprocon.de/workshop2015
