We get many questions like „What is replacing this or that on-premise SAP HCM module in future?“ or „How long does it take to implement Concur?“.
This newsletter brings you insights into SAP’s HCM roadmap regarding SuccessFactors transition, valuable advice for Concur implementation projects, but also a variety of hands-on tips for general SAP Payroll, UK Payroll (RTI), ESS/MSS, Concur updates and configuration, SuccessFactors Reporting and present two low cost solutions:

• SAP HCM cross system configuration comparison
• SuccessFactors ready2use dashboard for Recruiting

Content Summary

• SAP Payroll: we look into One Click Wagetype Documentation, and specifically for the UK into reviewing a new RTI report and RTI E-Filing changes;
• SAP HCM: a case study on clear Orgcharts at Maersk with Ingentis org.manager, as well as looking into a short dump issue with Floorplan Manager, the Europen working time directive and a product for more efficient cross-system configuration comparison
• Concur: we look into release highlights for the past couple of months; new Triplink Partner and Cash Advance features; how to get the most out of your Concur Travel & Expenses implementation; as well as a case study for a 9 country go live in 12 weeks!
• SuccessFactors: we look into SuccessFactors Design Theme; Reporting Insider KPI’s for Recruiting; resolving an error in ORD and WFA activation; the European Working Time Directive in SAP Time Management and SuccessFactors EC Timesheet; and finally look into the fourth part of our Visual Reporting with BIRT Templates series.
  We also present our ready2use Recruiting Dashboard
• HRIS Strategy: we take a look at the SAP HR SuccessFactors and Cloud HR roadmap; the consequences of the Safe Harbour decision and its effects on SuccessFactors and SAP onPremise HR Systems; and finally listen to a podcast on Certifications, SuccessFactors and Concur Updates, S/4 HANA.

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SAP Payroll

One Click Wagetype Documentation in SAP HR Infotypes

Another useful result from SAP’s customer driven improvement program: you can now access the documentation for each wagetype directly from infotypes 0008, 0014 and 0015. Having the documentation always at your fingertips makes well informed decisions faster and errors much less likely. Read more here…

UK: New RTI Control Report RPLRTIGH

The new RTI Control Report RPLRTIGH, or transaction code PC00_M08_RTI_CTRL if you prefer, has now been released by SAP to support your RTI reporting process. Find out more…

UK: RTI E-Filing Connection Changes from SSL to TLS September 2015

If your RTI processes can’t reach HMRC after 30th September 2015, you may have missed an announcement from SAP and HMRC and need to talk to your technical team asap. Otherwise RTI won’t work and this affects FPS, EPS and EYU. You may also experience issues accessing HMRC via the government gateway in your web browser. So here are a few important points if you hit RTI issues around these days. Read more…

 

SAP HCM

Product: One Stop Shop for SAP HR Config Reconciliation

Our new tool, iProCompare is an efficient tool for cross system comparison of SAP HR configuration for just GBP 1900 or USD 3000. The tool will help you:

• save you money by using IT and Consultancy resources more efficiently
• reduce the risk of disruptions in your SAP based HR and Payroll processes
• speed up change processes in SAP HR configuration

Floor Plan Manager: get a proper error message instead of Short Dump in FPM

Some standard applications in the SAP Floorplan Manager (FPM), which are based on the Overview Page Floorplan (OVP), will sometimes error and create a short dump with no indication of what might have caused it. Find out how to fix this…

Clear Organisation Structure at Maersk with Ingentis org.manager

What are the advantages of a user friendly, rich organisational chart? Why could it be useful to show KPIs along the organisational structure? This case study provides best practice for the visualisation of HR data using the example of Maersk, a Danish business conglomerate. Read more…

The European Working Time Directive in SAP Time Management and SuccessFactors EC Timesheet

I spent some of the more frustrating hours of my life as an HR systems consultant implementing the European Working Time Directive in SAP Time Management in some shape or form. It was frustrating, often not because the system couldn’t do it. No, the frustrating element comes from organisations who want to implement the regulation through a system only.  And you simply can’t. Read more…

Concur Travel and Expense

Adding a Project ID Field When Booking a Trip in Concur

Many customers would like to see special fields, like project IDs, on trips booked via Concur. It’s actually quite simple to achieve that with standard configuration options. Read on…

Concur Release Highlights September October 2015

Did you know that Concur release products update and enhancements every month? September marks a start of Concur being more vocal about all the great enhancements and fixes being released, including UI changes, more options for rule building and e-receipt matching. Let’s take a look over the new releases for September

The October  improvements cover both new functionalities and minor improvement that enhance your Concur user experience – most notably for on-behalf and substitution scenarios.. October Highlights…

Go Live With Concur for 9 Countries in 12 Weeks

Imagine that you are asked if you can take over the project management for a Concur implementation in nine countries. The go-live date is in twelve weeks. Wait, twelve weeks, that is ambitious! This is what happened to Sven Ringling, managing director of iProCon UK. Read on…

Integration of GigSky Data Roaming with Concur Expense

Here’s another useful integration just announced, which I’m singling out as an example because GigSky is quite popular with frequent travellers: if you have a GigSky account, you can have your e-receipts automatically go into Concur. Read more…

Concur Q2 Highlights including new Triplink Partners and Cash Advance Process

Another quarter and another round of great improvements and developments have been released for Concur Travel, Expense and Invoice including new travel partners, new functionality for cash advances and Concur app connectivity. Find out more…

Concur Travel and Expense: Getting the Most from Your Concur Implementation

The Concur solution is very different from SAP Travel Management, and Concur projects are very different from ERP projects
You’re considering implementing Concur Travel and Expense? Brilliant! You have the opportunity to really add value to your Travel and Expense process and reduce cost at the same time. Emphasis on “opportunity” as opposed to “guarantee”. Whilst the majority of Concur projects are successful, there is a real risk that you are losing out on the full business benefits. Read more…

 

SuccessFactors

Product: ready2use Dashboard for SuccessFactors Recruiting

If you want to get to data driven decision making for day to day business, the right information needs to be available at everybody’s fingertips in an easy to consume format. Dashboards are a great way of achieving this by offering good data visualisation. But even in easy to configure modern solutions, creating a good custom dashboard can take quite a few days. iProCon now offers this deal for a SuccessFactors Recruiting Dashboard with 10 data visualisations ready to use for only GBP 800 or USD 1250.

Control SuccessFactors Design Theme by Division, Location or Department

Most SuccessFactors customers are aware that the design of the user interface can be changed to match their organisation’s corporate design. When working in the theme manager they would also realise that different designs can be assigned to different divisions. But many are unaware of the options for themes by location or department. Find out more…

SuccessFactors Reporting Insider KPI’s for Recruiting Management

This article is dedicated to the HR people and Recruiters out there who want to get most out of their job. Those who want to measure their success and want to know where their recruiting process could be improved. Here we go! I will tell you how to get the best out of the Recruiting module and Platform Reporting in SuccessFactors. Find out more…

SuccessFactors Reporting – Resolve Error in ORD and WFA activation

We recently hit an issue stopping us from setting up Workforce Analytics (WFA) and Online Report Designer (ORD) in SuccessFactors for new Instances on the data center in Ashburn (DC8). If you have the same problem: here’s how to solve it…

Visual Reporting with BIRT Templates in SuccessFactors – Part 4

BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) is an open source project and add-on for Eclipse. In SuccessFactors, you can use BIRT to amend the presentation of your ad hoc reports. It also gives you the chance to show your data in pivot tables. Data is exported to BIRT to build the report. Afterwards you upload a template and you can present your results in SuccessFactors everytime you run the report. In this article I’ll show you how the templates look and describe using BIRT in greater detail. Find out more…

 

HRIS Strategy:
SAP and SuccessFactors

Where’s my SAP HR? SuccessFactors and the Cloud HR Roadmap

Today, I venture out and try a succinct answer on questions like “Is SuccessFactors meant to replace SAP HR? Completely? And if so: where do I find the SuccessFactors equivalent of rule TE20 of the SAP standard time management schema?“. (The very short and simplified answers: “yes“, “yes“, and “you won’t and that’s a good thing“) You can read the longer answers here…

Safe Harbour Agreement – Effects on SuccessFactors and SAP onPremise HR Systems?

In an action reminding me strongly of the fairy tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes” an Austrian citizen shot down the “Safe Harbour” agreement between America and the EU leaving many organisations storing HR data of EU citizens exposed as acting illegally at the stroke of a pen. Whilst the original cause for the case was facebook, the fall of “safe harbour” has the potential to disrupt your SAP HCM or SuccessFactors based HR processes. Read on…

Podcast on Certifications, SuccessFactors and Concur Updates, S/4 HANA

Most of the usual suspects got together again for their SAP HCM themed virtual fireside chat. In this Podcast we go across all systems: SAP HCM, SuccessFactors and Concur. Highlights include the move to Meta Data Framework in SuccessFactors Recruiting, the Concur integration roadmap, new certifications incl. admin tool for customers and the options for integrating SAP HCM (as long as it’s still around) with S/4 HANA (not including HCM)

This time we have Steve Bogner, Luke Marson, Mark Ingram, Martin Gillet and Sven Ringling – and believe it or not: this is our 40th Podcast! Continue…

Selected Posts from the SCN
(SAP Community Network)

• Employee Central – SAP ERP HCM prepackaged Integration: how to change the standard field mapping
• Problems with modified HRMD* idocs?  New tool for ALE in HCM helps to detect conflicts!
• SciFi 2036: Why the Cloud is Evaporating
• SAP ERP to SuccessFactors Employee Central data migration RDS