Tips for SAP® HCM
Employee groupings: a dangerous pitfall in global SAP HCM
The groupings for employee groups and subgroups are used in various critical configuration tables throughout SAP HR, most notably in Payroll and Time Management. They are very useful to group employee groups/subgroups together under various criteria to assign them to a set of configuration entries like time quota, payroll calculation rule and more. Get to know why you have to be aware of using the same employee groupings for different countries.
ESS with EHP5 – Personal Profile and Salary Statement – Implemented in only 6 days
You are responsible for HR and are thinking about to implement Employee-Self-Services (ESS) within your SAP HCM? In the beginning it is not necessary to set up an extensive ESS project. With EhP5 you have the possibility to step by step set up and roll out single ESS services based on the web technology WebDynpro for ABAP, which requires less effort but still gives benefits for your employees. How we have implemented the Personal Profile and the Salary Statement
How to avoid the Security Pop-up whan up- or downloading files
Have you also seen this pop-up when you tried to up- or download files or lists from your SAP system? And did you ask yourself where this pop-up comes from and how to avoid it? First learn some basics about this topic and later read a step by step approach how to avoid the SAP GUI pop-up.
Jumping from SAP Query into HR master data
Queries are often used for quality checks on HR master data. Did you know you can jump into a transaction right from your query list? Once you know how to do it, it is actually quite easy to build an HR query, which allows you to get into the master data maintenance transaction for the selected employee with just one click. Learn how to implement an interactive SAP Query.
Customer checks in ESS via BAdI HRPAD00INFTYBL
You are using the new infotype framework (class based infotype logic) and you have implemented additional checks for infotypes via BAdI HRPAD00INFTYBL? You might have realised that all of a sudden your checks are not working anymore (exception CX_BADI_MULTIPLY_IMPLEMENTED). This might be caused by a program error. As of SAP note 1668794 a solution will be delivered with the next synchronisation HRSP available in June 2012. As for now please consider the instructions of this note for manual correction.
AUDIT: the „light“ alternative to a Park-and-Post-principle in HR – Auditing of critical master data changes
Do you check changes on critical HR master data and do you want to document it directly in the system and as an accepted proof for auditors? In this case our AUDIT tool is your solution. For a fixed price of EUR 3,000 or GB 2,500 + VAT we implement this tool as an interactive ABAP report and as a web application which shows the relevant or a random sample of changes to the responsible approvers. >>>more about the AUDIT tool from iProCon
Tips for SAP® Payroll
Switching to SEPA bank transfers by 31.03.2013
Payment systems in the Eurozone are going to be harmonised by the introduction of the Single European Payment Area (SEPA). Even non-Euro countries like the UK are affected, as their payment systems have committed to provide SEPA payment services following the new standards for cross-border payments in Euro. But the biggest change …
SAP Payroll UK: HMRC‘s new RTI (Real time information) replacing ‚old‘ e-filing
Click here for a heads up on the upcoming changes in data transfer with HMRC via RTI in SAP Payroll UK.
SAP HCM Insights Podcasts: „SAP HCM and Outsourcing – the good, the bad and the ugly“
Most customers using SAP HCM outsource some of their business or technical processes. We thought this was a very important topic and new SAP Mentor Luke Marson, Steve Bogner, Jarret Pazahanik and Sven Ringling from iProCon UK got together to talk about it in depth.
The podcast can be accessed here or via iTunes and we discussed the following (with timing):
1:45 – Types of HCM Outsourcing and examples we have seen
5:25 – Outsourcing and Talent Management
7:35 – US Outsourcing with Payroll and BPO insights
9:00 – Change orders and hidden costs
11:00 – Examples of when outsourcing can be value added for organizations
12:15 – Is cost the real driver when companies outsource all of HR
15:55 – Inexperienced consultants due to outsourcing business model and risks to customers and SAP – Check out this recent NY times article Indian Company Under Scrutiny Over U.S. Visas
18:50 – Risks of customers losing internal talent after outsourcing
20:35 – How customers can make outsourcing work for them
25:00 – Why customers need a strong internal team, governance and service level agreements
29:55 – Trends in Outsourcing in Talent Management and SuccessFactors
31:10 – Outsourcing versus Software as a Service (SaaS)
35:00 – Outsourcing a specific HR business process and integration with SAP
Linkedin Group for UK payroll
Join our new Linkedin Group on SAP UK payroll to discuss process and technical topics like RTI, pension auto-enrolment, rollout strategies and more. This is really a group for people genuinely interested and working in SAP payroll for UK, not a job board. All membership requests need to be approved by the group manager to keep it clean from spam. Click here to join SAP Payroll UK on Linkedin.
Events covering SAP® HCM and more
Join us at the SAP HR 2012 in Milan
WIS is hosting the SAP Insider HR2012 conference in Milan, 6.-8. June 2012. The event features about 250 in-depth sessions and various other opportunities to learn about the latest best practice in SAP HCM and HR-IT strategy. Sven Ringling, Director at iSolcon, will present the following sessions:
– Best practices for managing local configuration and custom development in a global SAP ERP HCM system
– On-demand or on-premise? Figuring out which HCM deployment model is right for you
Conference delegates who want to meet Sven in Milan are invited to get in touch beforehand to arrange a meeting via s.ringling@iprocon.com or +44 7920 840 590. Readers, who’d like to discuss any of these topics, but can’t attend the event, are also encouraged to get in touch for an informal discussion.
Successconnect London: the Successfactors™ conference
June 12 – 14: 3 days to learn about Successfactors™, the new SAP company, and their products. Click here for more information about this event on HR SaaS from Successfactors
SAP UK & Ireland User Group: Special interest group UK payroll
For the latest news on SAP PY-UK, see this event of the SIG on 23rd March 2012 covering RTI and pension auro enrolment amongst other topics.
SAVE the DATE: iProCon Group SAP HCM conference in London: 8th November 2012
Replicating the highly successful events for customers and prospects we run in Germany together our partners from AdManus, this is the launch event for the iProCon group subsidiary in the UK. A mix of valuable sessions on SAP HR topics will be on the agenda: e.g. ESS/MSS, Approval Processes, Performance Management (Appraisals and Objectives), HR reporting, Personnel Cost Planning, as well as two hot UK Payroll topics: RTI (HMRC real time information) and the new Pension Auto Enrolment. If you are interested, please drop us a lien and we’ll keep you posted as soon as the full agenda is published: info@iprocon.com
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