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01/23/09--13:22: Avoid Data Inconsistency Between ESS and PA30 in ECC 6.0 (chan 1607065)

New functionality in SAP ERP Central Component 6.0 makes it easier for Web-based applications to access HR master data, but you need to watch out for data inconsistency.


01/23/09--13:23: Ease Mid-Year Policy Changes with SAP Time Management (chan 1607065)

Learn how to accommodate for mid-year leave policy changes, such as new union agreements on absence quotas, with a step-by-step configuration approach in SAP Time Management.


01/23/09--13:24: Checklists in the New SAP ECC 6.0 Life and Work Events Framework (chan 1607065)

Guided Procedures are SAP's framework for delivering personalized Life and Work Event checklists within the SAP ERP Central Component 6.0 (SAP ECC 6.0) Self-Service platform. Instead of being presented with a disparate list of transactions that are grouped ambiguously within a portal, the user can be guided by a checklist based on real-life, time-bound events logically bundled together. This article is based on content from the SAP PRESS book Implementing Employee and Manager Self Service in SAP ERP HCM.


01/23/09--13:25: Part 2: Effectively Manage the Talent Life Cycle with SAP ERP HCM (chan 1607065)

Learn about the design of jobs in SAP ERP HCM and the importance of considering your qualifications needs in this design process. Find out more about the use of job and employee profiles in SAP and how they function within the talent management life cycle.


01/23/09--13:25: Quick Tip: Make Sure Your CAT2 Time Data Transfers to HR (chan 1607065)

Discover a strategy to make sure all your time data transfers properly when you perform an immediate transfer to HR infotypes.


01/23/09--13:26: Best Practices for Converting Historical Data in SAP ERP HCM (chan 1607065)

See how to take a comprehensive approach to managing historical data from start to finish during an SAP ERP HCM implementation.


01/23/09--13:27: Quick Tip: Keep Tabs on Error Messages When Transferring CATS Data to Controlling (chan 1607065)

Find out how to use a customizing feature to adjust the error message "Personnel Number invalid" when performing a Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS) transfer to Controlling (CO).


01/23/09--13:29: Make the Most of the Employee Interaction Center with an Effective Organizational Structure (chan 1607065)

Learn how to best create the organizational structure within the Employee Interaction Center (EIC) in SAP ERP 6.0.


01/23/09--13:30: Key Facts Every Company with Canadian Connections Needs to Know About Legal Deductions (chan 1607065)

Learn how your SAP system helps you to complete legal deductions in Canada for federal and provincial taxes, the Canada Pension Plan/Québec Pension Plan (CPP/QPP), and Employment Insurance (EI).


01/23/09--13:31: Build an Effective Interface for Your Employee Screening (chan 1607065)

See a two-phased process to build an interface between your SAP ERP HCM and SAP GRC Global Trade Services systems. By setting up communication between the two systems and using Application Link Enabling to transfer the data, you can improve your employee screening in SAP ERP HCM.


02/05/09--10:40: Consolidate Small Paychecks with a Quick and Simple Business Process (chan 1607065)

Learn how to configure a business process in SAP Payroll that automatically holds back small payments for employees until a specified minimum amount is reached. This configuration helps streamline the payroll process as a whole by consolidating multiple small paychecks into one larger check.


02/16/09--10:02: Quick Tip: Avoid the Accidental Execution of SAP Schema (chan 1607065)

Save yourself from having to clean up bad data with this quick safeguard against a schema error.


02/23/09--06:53: Best Practices to Increase the Effectiveness of Your LSMW Objects (chan 1607065)

n how you can implement best practices for developing Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) objects that are easy to use and support. Gain knowledge of how to identify the best situations for using LSMW over other data load methods.


02/27/09--10:37: Part 2: Align SAP Time Management with Your Company’s Time Quota Requirements (chan 1607065)

If your company uses negative time quotas to allow employees to exceed their annual leave entitlements, you can use a standard report and infotype 0416 (time quota compensation) to quickly and simply reduce their entitlements for the following year by the amount they have already taken.


03/19/09--15:29: System Trace - a Last Resort to Identify Missing Authorizations (chan 1607065)

Learn how to run the trace functionality (transaction ST01) to resolve error messages about missing authorizations.


03/26/09--09:57: Retain Your Top Talent Using Calibration in SAP Performance Management (chan 1607065)

Learn how to set up calibration in SAP Performance Management to rank your employees according to their performance.


03/31/09--09:40: Report Audit Tool Refines Data Security (chan 1607065)

The log of report auditing tool, which is not widely used, can enhance employee personal data protection. See how to configure it in your system.


04/02/09--11:58: Having Trouble Storing Legacy Alphanumeric Personnel Numbers? Try This (chan 1607065)

The SAP system stores numeric personnel numbers in an eight-digit field. Here’s a quick workaround if you need to store longer alphanumeric personnel numbers.


04/30/09--12:34: Streamline the Use of LSMW Objects with Periodic Transfer (chan 1607065)

Learn how to customize Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) Objects for periodic automated data transfers. The periodic transfer functionality can also reduce the number of steps required for the manual execution of LSMW Objects.


04/30/09--13:11: Structured Portfolio Review Reduces SAP ERP HCM Costs and Increases Returns (chan 1607065)

Learn how a rigorous review of your portfolio of HR projects and improvements can help you achieve two goals: cut costs by 20% or more in the short term, and deliver even higher returns by focusing the investment on areas that clearly offer business benefits or cost savings.


05/05/09--14:22: Speed Up Configuration by Using a Manual Transport of Configuration Table Entries (chan 1607065)

Learn one method that allows you to use an ABAP program to quickly load thousands of configuration table entries. Discover how you can follow this with a manual update in the transport to ensure that your changes are correctly captured.


05/08/09--08:22: Make the Most of your Organizational Structure and Data with Nakisa SAP Talent Visualization (chan 1607065)

In this general overview, learn about the various tools offered in SAP Talent Visualization by Nakisa.


06/02/09--12:20: Quick Tip: Ensure Payroll Processes Time-Based Cost and Alternate Payment Information (chan 1607065)

Learn how to configure the time evaluation schema to make sure overriding cost elements successfully transfer to payroll.


06/10/09--13:35: Do Some Authorization Detective Work with the User Information System (chan 1607065)

Learn how to create, implement, and maintain a solid authorizations concept using transaction SUIM.


06/10/09--13:38: 3 Ways to View your Personnel with SAP Talent Visualization by Nakisa (chan 1607065)

SAP Talent Visualization by Nakisa creates graphical representations of real-time HCM data. See how to use its OrgChart, Org Modeler, and SuccessionPlanning components to help manage your talent pool.


06/19/09--13:40: Automate a Supplemental Savings Plan for Wages Over the Qualified Plan Limit (chan 1607065)

Learn the configuration of a special benefit plan, wage types, and a rule in payroll that makes contributions to a supplemental savings plan possible even in the middle of a pay period.


07/17/09--14:15: Make the Most of Your Employee Interaction Center with SLA Agreements (chan 1607065)

Learn how to create Service Level Agreements (SLAs) within the Employee Interaction Center so you can track the effectiveness of the service center.


07/17/09--14:16: Ease Functional Screen Refinements for Learning Solution (chan 1607065)

With just plain system configuration and no extensive programming, learn how to copy a standard Business Server Page (BSP) and make adjustments to it in the same manner that you make changes to the standard screen in SAP Learning Solution. See how you can make custom configurations to best serve your business requirements.


07/22/09--07:20: 3 Ways to Handle Compensation Budget Imbalances Caused by Org Moves (chan 1607065)

Learn the pros and cons of options for budget reallocation – manual and automatic – when you cannot postpone the movement of staff during a compensation planning period.


07/28/09--07:56: Talent Groups in SAP E-Recruitment Target the Right Candidate (chan 1607065)

SAP E-Recruitment provides talent group functionality to help companies build relationships with candidates based on their hiring criteria and recruiting strategies. Recruiters can customize services such as the job alerts, newsletters, and invitations to events to meet the needs of the talent groups.


08/25/09--11:35: Quick Tip: Continue Correct Legal Deductions in Canadian Mergers or Acquisitions (chan 1607065)

Configure your system so that the correct pension contributions continue when Canadian businesses merge.


08/25/09--11:38: Allow Users to Execute LSMW Objects Without Access to Transaction LSMW (chan 1607065)

Learn a 3-step technique for restricting user access to LSMW to just one assigned data load. Users then can execute a data load without posing a security risk.


08/25/09--12:30: Control Retroactive Time Processing Through Personnel Calculation Rules (chan 1607065)

Learn how to control retroactive calculations in the time evaluation schema and limit time and pay policy changes to specific time periods.


09/04/09--12:15: SAP ERP HCM Performance Management: New Features Enhance Employee Development (chan 1607065)

SAP ERP HCM Performance Management enhancement package 4 has key features such as a user interface that includes Rich Islands for Adobe Flash and appraisal documents that are launched from the portal. Learn how to use these new features.


09/25/09--12:36: SAP HCM Performance Management – New Features in Enhancement Pack 4 (Part 2) (chan 1607065)

Learn how to create team goals and cascade them to your team. Also, see how you can perform team calibration and have the new calibrated final rating updated automatically in the appraisal documents.


09/28/09--12:05: How the Indicator for Arbitrary Use Allows You to Differentiate Schedules (chan 1607065)

Learn how to create a custom operation to read the Indicator for Arbitrary Use from the work schedule configuration.


10/07/09--11:19: How to Use the Fields in Table T510S to Generate Time Wage Types (chan 1607065)

You can make fuller use of table T510S to generate time wage types if you have a clear understanding of its fields.


10/08/09--11:32: Update Your Work Schedule Rule with a Simplified Approach (chan 1607065)

Learn how to use the standard report RPUWSH00 to update infotype 0007 without any manual effort.


11/02/09--06:47: Get the Most From SAP ERP HCM 6.0 Enhancement (chan 1607065)

Find out about the current content of enhancement packages 1 through 4, including real examples that show how the new functionality solves previous issues and meets demands. Learn about enhancement package 5, the next one in line for delivery.


11/09/09--14:10: Configure Feature UEQPY for Proper Garnishment Proration (chan 1607065)

SAP recently introduced some programming changes in payroll function UGARN, including a feature named UEQPY to give customers control over the new logic. Learn how to properly configure this new feature for correct proration of child support and alimony garnishment deductions.


11/19/09--12:51: Align Your Talent and Organizational Goals with Rightsizing (chan 1607065)

Learn how to use SAP Talent Visualization by Nakisa to perform rightsizing.


12/09/09--08:10: Improve Your HCM Employee Interaction Center Using BW Queries and Custom Reporting (chan 1607065)

Read an overview of the reporting capabilities of the data captured within the Employee Interaction Center. Understand the standard Business Intelligence (BW) queries that SAP delivers with the Employee Interaction Center (EIC) product, as well as some of the common custom reports that customers typically develop as part of their EIC implementations


12/09/09--08:10: Modify Organization and Staffing Interface to Add Custom Infotypes (chan 1607065)

Learn how to modify the standard organization and staffing interface to integrate custom built infotypes in detailed views of the transaction PPOSE. This integration means users do not have to resort to another transaction to view most custom Organizational Management/Personnel Development infotype information when they are using PPOSE.


12/15/09--10:09: Quick Tip: Assign Leave Programs Using the Additional Time ID Field in Infotype 0007 (chan 1607065)

Learn how to use the Additional time ID field in the planned working time infotype 0007 to group employees for certain business scenarios.


12/24/09--07:29: Create Decision Trees Using Standard SAP Operations (chan 1607065)

Learn how to use standard SAP operations based on employee master data to create decision trees in time evaluation processing.


01/14/10--12:32: Quick Tip: Need to Change a Locked PCR? Here’s How (chan 1607065)

Learn how to unlock a Payroll and Time schema that was locked earlier by a user who either is no longer with the company or who does not exist in the system.


01/14/10--12:34: Workflow Basics for SAP ERP HCM (chan 1607065)

Maximize the potential of normal business processes by adding complex decisions and branches that the SAP system can process instantaneously and deliver to the next participant or participants. SAP delivers SAP Workflow as part of the core functionality. The setup of the organizational structure with Personnel Administration and Organizational Management provides many options for workflow routing.


02/11/10--11:43: Thorough Process Documentation Maximizes Your Use of SAP Integration (chan 1607065)

Learn how process documentation benefits your organization by streamlining business processes both prior to and after an SAP ERP Human Capital Management implementation. These recommendations for documenting processes ensure users understand procedures and that process measurement and controls are managed efficiently.


08/06/10--08:43: How to Create Work Schedule Variants (chan 1607065)

Use work schedule variants to make your work schedule rule more flexible by specifying different rules for different daily work schedules. Learn how to identify the holiday class of a public holiday, create a daily work schedule, add a daily work schedule variant, create work schedule variant rules, and define period work schedules and work schedule rules.


10/19/10--13:56: Adopt Strategies to Conquer SAP HR Support Package Implementation Challenges (chan 1607065)

Learn tips, tricks, and best practices to avoid issues before and after importing SAP HR Support Packages.


10/27/10--07:41: Use These Two Reports to Correct Wrong Start and End Dates for OM Objects (chan 1607065)

Learn how to change the start and end dates of objects in Organizational Management without creating data inconsistencies. You can correct objects created with wrong start or end dates.


10/29/10--10:52: Which of These 3 Strategies Suits Your Global HCM Implementation? (chan 1607065)

Use these tips and best practices to choose the right global HCM rollout option – big bang, phased functional, or phased geographic.


11/03/10--14:37: How to Use Standard Configuration to Automate Declining Negotiated Leave Balances (chan 1607065)

Many organizations allow their HR department to provide additional leave entitlement for potential new hires as part of a negotiated employment contract. In most cases, the additional leave entitlement is reduced as the employee's seniority increases and, once the combined level is reached, is dropped altogether. This may also occur during an acquisition if the company acquired has more generous entitlement plans than the acquiring company. The employees are not "grandfathered" into their old plans, but are allowed to keep the additional leave entitlement. Once their seniority increases and reaches the level that entitles them to the current entitlement value in the acquiring company's existing plan, they then revert to the acquiring company's standard leave plans and seniority levels. You can manage this process within standard configuration and rules in the Time Evaluation schema and prevent the manual calculations and adjustment to the quota balances that you would otherwise have to complete annually.


11/19/10--06:59: Deliver the Dashboards Your Recruiters Need with the Personal Object Worklist in SAP E-Recruiting (chan 1607065)

Learn how the dashboards delivered with SAP E-Recruiting provide recruiters with a snapshot of their recruiting work and enable them to perform tasks quickly. Understand how the Personal Object Worklist enables SAP E-Recruiting dashboards, and see how to configure and develop custom dashboards to meet the recruiting needs of various users.


11/30/10--08:22: Know the Risks and Benefits of 5 Change Validation Options for Interfaces (chan 1607065)

You can approach the common task of change validation in SAP ERP HCM in a number of different ways. Deciding among the options depends on the task at hand and the user’s experience, level of skill, and personal preference. See the pros and cons of five common options.


12/07/10--08:24: The ABCs of Preparing SAP ERP HCM Training, Part 1: Create Effective Training Environments (chan 1607065)

A well-planned training environment can enable organizations using SAP ERP HCM to deliver effective training to their staffs over the long term. These best practices, drawn from recent experiences providing SAP ERP HCM training, show how to design the training system and materials to achieve maximum long-term benefits with minimal ongoing cost and effort.


12/07/10--12:48: The ABCs of Preparing SAP ERP HCM Training, Part 2: Note 7 Areas of Concern When Improving Your Training Programs (chan 1607065)

Use tips from these seven areas, including change control, authorizations, and evaluation, in planning your SAP ERP HCM training program.


12/22/10--12:55: How to Filter the Fields in an SAP View Table (chan 1607065)

SAP ERP HCM configuration tables can be big and it is difficult to get a list of the fields you are looking for. Here are two methods to filter the desired fields in any configuration table regardless of the submodule you are using.


01/06/11--09:58: Protect Your SAP ERP EIC Data with New Authorization and Security Upgrades (chan 1607065)

Given the sensitive nature of employee interactions, it is important to secure related data in the SAP HCM ERP Employee Interaction Center (EIC) against unauthorized access and misuse. SAP enhancement package 4 for the EIC application delivers a new authorization object, P_EICAU, that allows users to guard sensitive employee interaction data. This authorization object must exist in the EIC agent’s list of authorization objects to use the EIC application.


01/10/11--18:57: Employee Interaction Center: Six Key Learning Points to Consider in an Implementation (chan 1607065)

Implementing the Employee Interaction Center (EIC) sometimes requires customized enhancements. With that in mind, use these six field-tested tips to better help you roll out EIC.


01/14/11--14:05: Reduce HR Admin Costs with Automatic Carry Forward Absence Quotas Using Time Types (chan 1607065)

Learn how to configure SAP ERP HCM Time Management and write personnel calculation rules and time schemas to automatically create a separate carry forward absence quota infotype (2006). The absence quota infotype allows you to carry forward absence quota balances every year without making any additional configuration changes or maintaining the date specifications infotype (0041), drastically reducing HR administration and maintenance costs.


02/18/11--13:21: 3 Approaches to Create Global Ad-Hoc Queries (chan 1607065)

Learn the details on how you can transport user-defined ad-hoc reports from development to quality to production in your SAP ERP HCM implementation. Follow this process when you want certain reports (queries) transported and available to all users in all environments. For example, this approach is useful if you create a report in ad-hoc, but you want to keep a baseline back-up version of it in all environments and SAP clients (i.e. instances within a given environment).


03/01/11--13:20: Understanding the FMLA Workbench (chan 1607065)

The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Workbench assists employers in administering the complex guidelines for determining eligibility and absence management. Understand the components that make up the FMLA Workbench and how each section of the workbench functions.


04/07/11--12:03: Tips for Integrating Global HR Processes and HCM Global Template Solutions with SAP ERP HCM and Manager Self-Service (chan 1607065)

Learn the key concepts and leading practices for designing global HR processes and integrating them with the SAP ERP HCM Personnel Administration (PA) module. Use this article to understand key considerations in configuring the PA module to work for your global design by applying leading practices to your personnel actions, SAP ERP HCM Processes and Forms, and SAP workflow. You can apply these concepts for initial implementations, roll-outs, or upgrades.


04/11/11--08:55: Improve the Debugging Process for Dynamic Actions (chan 1607065)

Learn how to write dynamic actions to automatically create records and quickly identify and resolve HR infotype debugging issues that can sometimes occur.


04/13/11--12:27: Best Practices for Extending ESS Globally (chan 1607065)

The employee portal in SAP ERP self services iViews are country specific and are not available for all countries. Learn how to extend the SAP personal data services by using configuration without any custom development of iViews.


04/14/11--10:07: How to Plan and Manage a Successful Payroll Parallel Run (chan 1607065)

Parallel runs are often the most demanding phase of any HR and payroll implementation. Yet little formal advice is available and most users seem to learn through experience only. This general overview of the process shows that detailed planning, setting expectations, and good communication are the keys to a successful parallel run.


04/26/11--08:34: Explore Your Options for Setting up a Security-Related Organizational Structure (chan 1607065)

Learn how to set up a security-related organizational structure and what your options are for doing so.


04/29/11--10:51: How to Reset Infotype 0003 and Address Complex Retroactive Payroll Accounting Requirements (chan 1607065)

Learn how to change infotype 0003 (payroll status) for different retroactive accounting payroll requirements and mass changes with multiple employees. See how to minimize the complexities arising out of master data changes and effective retroactive changes in payroll processing.


05/09/11--13:29: Using Daily Work Schedule Variants and Selection Rules to Manage Complex Employee Work Hours (chan 1607065)

Learn how to create work schedule variants and selection rules and avoid the implementation of more complex user exits.


05/20/11--12:15: Use ABAP to Increase the Effectiveness of a Legacy System Migration Workbench Object (chan 1607065)

Learn how to apply the ABAP programming language to your LSMW objects to meet your business requirements. See how to navigate through the LSMW transaction to find the areas where you can write your own ABAP code by reviewing detailed examples.


05/26/11--11:00: Three Tips for Handling Grandfathered Quota Balances (chan 1607065)

Do you have employees who are in the same group, category, or union who should receive different entitlements due to being grandfathered into a previous program? SAP ERP HCM provides several different methods for handling grandfathered plans. I explain three of the options for handling the generation of quota entitlements for these employees using example scenarios.


06/02/11--10:13: How to Compare Payroll Results Before and After a Major Schema Change (chan 1607065)

Learn how to carry out a regression test to compare payroll results before and after a major configuration change has been applied to the payroll. Detailed steps show how to create a Microsoft Excel workbook with a simple Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) program that compares two sets of payroll results, and creates a new spreadsheet that highlights and identifies all the differences. The result is a simple but effective table-comparison utility with a multitude of uses.


06/03/11--07:33: Share Organizational Management Data Between SAP Systems Using Transport (chan 1607065)

Learn how to transfer organizational management objects, along with their attributes and relationships, from one SAP system to another using the standard SAP transport system.


06/29/11--10:01: Quick Tip: Three Ways to Quickly and Easily Document Infotype Tables and Fields (chan 1607065)

Learn three easy methods for documenting infotype tables quickly and efficiently. Rapidly select and output only the infotypes, fields, and attributes you require.


07/01/11--09:19: SAP ERP HCM’s 5 Reporting Options: How Do You Choose? (chan 1607065)

Determine which of the five available SAP ERP HCM reporting tools are the best for meeting your company’s reporting requirements.


07/08/11--12:02: How to Restrict Payroll Payments Based on Position or Location (chan 1607065)

Learn how to restrict payroll payments for position- and location-based payments and automate the restrictions for every payroll period and for the entire organization. Also learn how to automate the calculations of payments based on constant values.


07/21/11--11:38: How to Easily and Quickly Revaluate Absence Codes (chan 1607065)

Learn how to simplify the revaluation of absence codes and attendance records in the SAP ERP HCM system.


08/17/11--10:33: Tips for Adding Traffic Light Icons to SAP Queries (chan 1607065)

SAP ERP HCM users frequently write SAP queries to highlight problem datasets, gaps, or inconsistencies. Adding traffic light icons to these queries makes them much more visual and effective.


08/17/11--10:35: A Step-by-Step Process for Managing Pre-Booking Errors (chan 1607065)

Gain insight into the events that trigger an employee master data pre-booking lock. Learn two different methods for removing the lock and drill down on the pre-booking lock configuration steps.


08/17/11--12:10: A Step-by-Step Process for Managing Pre-Booking Errors (chan 1607065)

Gain insight into the events that trigger an employee master data pre-booking lock. Learn two different methods for removing the lock and drill down on the pre-booking lock configuration steps.


08/19/11--10:42: Troubleshooting Payroll Problems (chan 1607065)

Payroll implementations often face challenges with operational and other run-time issues. Payroll users chase paycheck deadlines on a weekly basis while trying to avoid errors. Learn how to analyze and solve these issues while developing a maintenance strategy.


08/19/11--12:14: Delegate the Creation of Requisition Requests with Manager Self-Service (chan 1607065)

Learn how to implement a delegate solution for SAP E-Recruiting and manager self-service (MSS) using SAP’s Object and Data Provider (OADP), structural authorizations, and HCM processes and forms framework. Discover how to configure and initiate an MSS requisition request form using SAP NetWeaver Portal.


09/21/11--10:50: New Features in SAP ERP HCM Talent Management (chan 1607065)

SAP recently announced the general availability of SAP ERP HCM Succession Management enhancement package 5. The SAP Talent Visualization application by Nakisa (3.0) was released last year, for compatibility with enhancement package 5. Learn about the changes that have been made, as well as the new functionalities and enhancements that are available in HCM Talent Management enhancement package 5 and Nakisa 3.0.


09/26/11--12:04: How to Structure (and Simplify) Your Time Evaluation Configuration and Maintenance (chan 1607065)

Although SAP’s time evaluation module is extremely flexible and powerful, it is often over-integrated due to the unpredictable variety of business rules and contracts. This makes maintenance, configuration, and support unnecessarily complicated. Learn these tips and tricks to overcome the challenges and configuration problems that are presented in many SAP time evaluation implementations.


09/27/11--12:22: Track and Analyze Changes to Customizing Tables Using Standard SAP Reports and Tools (chan 1607065)

Help SAP users audit configuration changes and reduce the time needed to resolve issues caused by configuration by tracking and analyzing the changes to customizing tables.


09/28/11--08:59: Use Employee Self-Service Web Requests to Make the Most of Your Employee Interaction Center (chan 1607065)

Learn how to create employee self-service Web requests and maximize the benefits within the Employee Interaction Center.


10/12/11--09:41: Quick Tip: Configure a Payroll Flag Wage Type that Accepts a Zero Value (chan 1607065)

A trigger or flag wage type can be used to switch payroll rules on or off as required for specific employees. See how to configure a clear and comprehensive solution using a wage type that accepts zero values and has a reason code.


10/19/11--10:47: Using Social Media to Do Your HR Job — An Interview with Thomas Jenewein (chan 1607065)

Social media is changing the way SAP HR professionals work. Learn how using social media can help you do your job more efficiently and effectively.


10/27/11--08:46: Use the Indirect Valuation Module CONST to Easily Achieve Complex Wage Type Calculations (chan 1607065)

Meet your organization’s needs for automating some payments for employees based on constant values stored in a back-end table. Achieve this functionality with a few simple configuration steps.


10/31/11--12:50: Step-by-Step Instructions for a Successful Payroll Implementation Using an SAP ERP HCM Payroll Comparison Program (chan 1607065)

Migrating payroll from your legacy payroll systems into an SAP payroll system is a highly complex process and is a major factor for ensuring the overall success of an SAP implementation. Follow this step-by-step process to compare your legacy payroll run with your SAP payroll run for the same period. See how to capture your year-to-date results in your new SAP payroll system, and get code snippets that you can use for your implementation.


11/03/11--08:17: Quick Tip: Maintain Assets Centrally by Integrating SAP ERP HCM and FI-AA (chan 1607065)

Learn how to establish asset management and SAP ERP HCM integration by activating a standard SAP feature.


11/14/11--11:28: How to Change or Correct Employee Dates of Hire (chan 1607065)

Learn about the tools available to rectify incorrect employee hiring and leaving dates in the SAP ERP HCM system.


11/16/11--09:25: Quick Tip: Analyze Time Types Using Standard SAP Report RPT55400 (chan 1607065)

Learn to use a little-known report that allows users to view the contents of the attendance or absence type configuration tables in display mode. Explore the benefits this report affords to non-technical users by allowing them to generate lists of available time types on their own.


11/22/11--08:28: Create and Store Custom Excel Templates for Your SAP ERP HCM Reports (chan 1607065)

Microsoft Excel templates can be stored within your SAP system and assigned to reports and queries as part of the normal process of saving a variant. The standard SAP ERP HCM system already includes a document repository area called the Business Document Service (BDS). Custom Excel templates can easily be stored in the BDS using a simple interface and an existing set of utility programs.


12/19/11--11:54: Indirect Assignment of Authorizations in SAP ERP HCM (chan 1607065)

Learn how to implement position-based authorizations in your organization. Discover the advantages and pitfalls of having position-based authorizations.


12/21/11--11:58: Learn How to Configure a Second Saturday as a Day Off (chan 1607065)

Using the SAP-provided user exit EXIT_SAPLPTWS_001, you can modify generated work schedules to configure the second Saturday of the month as a day off, which otherwise is not possible through configuration.


12/28/11--09:31: Using Personal Data Fields to Calculate Payroll Decisions (chan 1607065)

Discover the standard payroll operations and functions provided by SAP ERP HCM that enable users to query the age and gender of employees. Also learn how to calculate date differences from date of birth to the current payroll period.


12/28/11--10:58: Use a Global Payroll Strategy to Leverage the SAP Payroll System: Part 1 (chan 1607065)

Companies that implement SAP payroll systems often find themselves challenged with defining global strategies and solutions for issues that can arise during an implementation. This case study based on numerous implementations outlines options and approaches you can take to meet those challenges.


01/10/12--10:45: System Tips for a Global SAP Payroll Strategy (chan 1607065)

Learn how to meet the common challenges that arise with deploying SAP payroll systems in multiple geographies and countries. See how to use your SAP ERP HCM and payroll functionality to standardize the implementation process across countries, but also to continue to meet local requirements.


01/24/12--08:55: Improve Your Cost Analysis Reports on Time Management Infotypes (chan 1607065)

Learn how to enable cost assignment, activity allocation, and external services tools in time management infotypes. This allows you to address your organization’s needs for different types of cost allocation in time management infotypes and different types of payroll posting requirements.


01/25/12--11:57: Implementation Tips for SAP ERP HCM Performance Management (chan 1607065)

Learn the top 12 implementation best practices to follow and potential pitfalls to avoid during the implementation of SAP ERP HCM Performance Management. Discover the workarounds for these potential pitfalls.


01/30/12--09:53: True Tales From a One-Man Tech Team (chan 1607065)

Understand the concerns and considerations with having one employee support all of your HCM configuration, then follow the process used by a one-man tech team to quickly and efficiently implement changes to the SAP system.


02/15/12--11:42: Structural Authorizations with Nakisa (chan 1607065)

Learn how to implement structural authorizations for Nakisa. Understand the concepts and activities required to make structural authorizations work with Nakisa components.