SAP E-Recruiting

As a subcomponent of Talent Management E-Recruiting helps to find the best talents for your company. Integrated with the jobportals like Monsters or Jobpilot the candidate data are send in realtiem to the SAP system where they can be used to manage the selection process. Predefined SAP HR Processes using standard workflows can be used for it, but you can also implement your own needs redifining these HR Prosesses and rewriting the workflows.

These videos may give you a short introduction:
Personalizing the Layout of Dashboards in SAP E-Recruiting
Creating Your Own Dashboard Worklists in SAP E-Recruiting
Filtering New Applications by Employer in SAP E-Recruiting
Navigating the Recruiter Dashboard in SAP E-Recruiting
Using the Filter Row in SAP E-Recruiting  
A Strategic Approach to SAP eRecruitment Visualization

SAP HANA, the new platform

SAP HANA is the new platform used to run the ECC business processes. This platform is much more efficient than Netweaver and therefore a better performance can be achieved.

See what this platform can do:
Life Runs SAP
SAP HANA Changes the Game


Here you can find the official SAP HANA help and here the oficial SAP HANA webside.

SAP Webdynpro

In order to adapt the SAP user interface to internet the webdynpro technology was developed. This technology is used for the SAP Portal and for the NetWeaver Business Client. For example the ESS and MSS applications as well as E-Recruiting are used via internet and therefore are implemented with webdynpro user interfaces.

Here are some interesting webdynpro tutorials:
Webdynpro for ABAP Part 1  
Webdynpro for ABAP Part 2
Webdynpro for ABAP Part 3
Webdynpro for ABAP Part 4
Webdynpro for ABAP Part 5a
Webdynpro for ABAP Part 5b
Webdynpro for ABAP Part 6a
Webdynpro for ABAP Part 6b
WebDynpro for ABAP ALV Tutorials Part 1
Webdynpro for ABAP ALV tutorials Part 2: How to use SET_DATA method
Webdynpro for ABAP ALV Part 3 : Self Defined Functions
Webdynpro for ABAP ALV Part 4
Webdynpro for ABAP ALV Tutorial Part 5
Webdynpro for ABAP ALV Tutorials Part 6     

SAP Employee Self Service (ESS) and Manager Self Service (MSS)

In order to minimize the workload for the HR department SAP offers an Employee Self Service solution called ESS. With this solution the employee can do many tasks without the need of the HR department. Using the ESS the employee can change his address, his marital status, send leave request to his manager and many more.

The manager on the other hand can use the Manager Self Service MSS to approve the requests he has received from his employees. Moreover the MSS offers a lot of applictions to visualize the employee´s information and to manage it.

Here are some videos regarding ESS/MSS:
SAP Employee and Manager Self-Service rapid-deployment solution
Employee Self Service Demo
SAP EP SPRO CONFIGURATION FOR HOME PAGE OF ESS MSS IN SAP EP
ESS-MSS Demo
SAP ESS-MSS Online Training Class  

The official SAP ESS/MSS help can be found here:
ESS
MSS

SAP Time Management

The SAP Time Management solution offers a complete range of applications in order to record, to store, to evaluate and to control time data.

The following diagram shows the Time Management Component and its integration with the SAP modules Logistics and Accounting.

 

You can create work shedules and assign them to your employees, plan the shifts of your company, record the time data of your employees, evaluate this data in order to pay your employees accordingly, handle your incentive wages and many more. There is also a Time Manager Workplace available where the time data of the employees are visualized.

These videos give you a short introduction into SAP Time Mnagement:
Duet for Microsoft Office and SAP - Time Management
SAP Mobile HR Timesheet


Here you can find the official SAP Time Management Help.

SAP Talent Management

The most important capital of a company are their human resources, because it depends on the quality of their work if the company is successful or not. Therefore it is very important to hire, to develop and to retain the best employees available in the market.

SAP Talent Management offers a wide range of solutions to fullfil these tasks. For example there are tools that help you to manage your compensation strategy and to analyze the market value of the employees you want to hire. Moreover you can handle you recruiting processes wit the SAP E-Recruiting Solution

 But there are also tools to elaborate the career plans, the objectives and the appraisals of the employees. In order to keep your employees updated with the knowledge they need to do their job you can use SAP Learning Solution.

Here you can find some videos with a short introduction to SAP Talent management
SAP Talent Visualization by Nakisa
SAP Learning Solution--Searching for Course  
SAP Learning Solution: How to Print Your Transcript
Duet for Microsoft Office and SAP- Recruiting Management
SAP Mobile HR E-Recruiting Interview Assistant
Compensation Planning and Budget Managment

SAP Payroll

One of the most important and crirical issues in HR is payroll. Every month thounsands of employees have to be paid. Also the taxes and the social security fees have to be transfered correctly and in time. Compared to other issues this one seems to be easy to solve, but it isn´t. The problem is that every employee has its individual casuistics, the may be overtime, absences, special payments, night-shifts and many, many more factors that influence in the calculation of the payroll amounts and fees. Moreover each country has its own specific laws rearding taxes and social security.

Here we have a tutorial video of the US payroll calculation:
US Payroll Tutorial  
US Payroll Tutorial 2012

Here you can find the official SAP Payroll Help. As you can see the SAP payroll solution is country dependend. This is due to the above mentioned country specific laws.

Workflows in the SAP HR environment

Workflows are used to implement processes where severall persons are involved.

A simple example where workflows are used is the leave approval request in HR. This process consists of e.g. three steps where two persons are involved, the employee and its manager.
In the first step the employee requests vacations and sends this request to the manager. The manager receives the request and can now decide if he wants to approve the vacations or decline them. Afterwards the employee receives a notification mail informing him if the vacations were approved or not.

There many pre-delivered SAP HR workflows as for example the afore mentioned leve request workflow. You can use this standard workflows and adapt them to your business needs. But you can also create completely new workflows.

These are examples of how a workflows can be used:
Duet for Microsoft Office and SAP - Workflow
SAP Mobile HR Approvals

Please find here six videos where you can see how to implement SAP workflows:
How to create an SAP workflow - Create Task (Part 1 of 4)
How to create an SAP workflow - Test (Part 2 of 4)
How to create an SAP workflow - Approval (Part 3 of 4)
How to create an SAP workflow - Approval Definition (Part 4 of 4)
How to model looping in SAP workflow (1 of 2)
How to model looping in SAP workflow (2 of 2)

In order to implement the approval processe of workflows you need to set up the organizational structure accordingly. These tutorials can help you with this task:
How to create an Organization Plan for SAP workflow (1 of 2)
How to create an Organization Plan for SAP workflow (2 of 2)


As workflows are component specific each SAP HR component has its own workflow documentation:
E-Recruiting Workflows

SAP HR Reporting

In order to retrieve the information stored in the SAP HR System, SAP offers many tolos and programs. For example there are

1. Pre-Delivered Reports
2. Third PArty Solutions
3. Custom Coded Reports
1. You can write your own custom coded report using the SAP programming language ABAP. This language is similar to COBOL, but integrated with SQL. The following video gives you a short introduction to ABAP.

1. Queries
2. SAP Business Intelligence (BI/BW)

The following video gives you an overview of SAP HR Reporting:
The 2013 Guide to SAP HR & Payroll Reporting Tools and Solutions

Here you can find the official SAP HR Reporting Tools Help.

Personnel Adminitration in SAP

The Personnel Administration (PA) in SAP allows to create employees and store their data permanently. PA is a central component of the SAP HR solution, because here we create employees and these employees are needed for almost every HR process. The only process where we don´t use employees is the recruiting process, because here candidates are handled.

The data of the employees are stored in the so called infotypes. Infotypes are used to group the data of the employee. For example the is the "Personal Data Infotype", also known as infotype 0002 where the name, the sex, the ID number etc of the employee is stored. Another wellknown infotype is the "Address Data Infotype (Infotype 0006 or I0006)".

The most important HR Infotypes are listed here.

This video gives you a short overview of what this component offers:
Introduction to PA

Here you can find the link to the official SAP Personnel Administration Help.

Organizational Structures in SAP

Every organization has to have a structure. Large or small, private sector or plubic sector, local, national or multinational there is always a need for the people in the business to know who is charge, what their role is and who to contact if there are any problems.

All of these is achieved through a structure or hierarchy.

The SAP Orgnizational Structure can be visualized using the transaction PPOSE.

These videos give you a short introduction to this transaction:
SAP HR Organizational Structure Overview
SAP HR OM Tutorial

A detailed explanation of how to create organizational structures in SAP can be seen in this video:
SAP HR Organizational Structure Tutotial

The customizing of the organizational structure can be done using the IMG (transaction SPRO). This tutorial gives you a short overview how to do this customizing:
SAP tutorial: Organizational Units Customizing


Here you can find the link to the official SAP Organizational Management Help.

SAP HR, a continuously growing business

SAP HR Consulting is a business which is growing continuously, therefore there are many job opportunities in this area.

I have been working for 14 years as an SAP HR expert and therefore I know this market. In this blog I will answer to SAP HR functional and technical questions and doubts.

This tutorials gives a short overview of the scope of SAP HR:
SAP HR Overview ( Part 1 )
SAP HR Overview ( Part 2 )   
Introduction to SAP HR

 

Here you can find the link to the official SAP HR Help.

 

Here are some interesting links to SAP HR related YouTube videos:
SAP Mobile HR Approvals
SAP Mobile HR Timesheet
SAP Mobile HR Travel Expense Approval
SAP Mobile HR Interview Assistant
SAP Mobile HR Leave Request
SAP Mobile HR Employee Lookup
SAP Mobile HR Manager Insight