Newsletter March 2007
Useful tips for your work with SAP HR
What you will miss if you don't read further:
- Appraisal Template - How you use and customize it
- Travel Expenses - Avoiding cross-company-code postings
- SAP Workflow - Why use it
- ESS - How to create on-line Pay slip, with Logo
- Talent Management - Managing the best
- HR-Outsourcing - A successful strategy
- GUI new - One user interface for everything
- Interesting book - SAP Query Reporting
1. Tips in mySAP® HR
Appraisal Template - How you use and customize it
As opposed to version 4.6c SAP ERP supports Management by Objectives. This means, that apart from fixes appraisal criteria, free fields are available to maintain individual objectives. In most cases however, requirements go beyond the mere definition of objectives and the assessment based on the achievement of these objectives and other criteria: the whole performance interview as an integrated part of the performance management process has to be supported by the software. In this article we provide a short overview on the functionality around the “appraisal template”, which more often than not is used to document all results of the performance interview.
Travel Expenses – Avoiding cross-company-code postings
If the expenses for a business trip is to be posted to a cost center or project ID from a different company code, a cross-company-code posting occurs which makes the clearing process more difficult for many organisations. One way to avoid this is to prevent the assignment of business trip expenses to different company codes completely. Technically, this is easily possible by deleting the flag "Company code change permitted in trip" in infotype 0017. The charging of the expenses has to be guaranteed differently.
However, customizing for SAP travel expenses offers another option as well. You can control the offsetting posting so that it always uses the company code from the expense posting instead of the company code from infotype 0017 or 0001 thus avoiding any cross-company-code activity. To do so, just set the flag "Setting expense company code" in the view "Symbolic account assignment for financial accounting" (V_T706K), where travel expense wage types are assigned to symbolic accounts.
Which way to choose and whether you should avoid cross-company-code postings in the first place, depends on your processes in financial accounting - particularly on the company code clearing process.
Why use SAP Workflow?
SAP Workflow ensures "the right work is brought in the right sequence at the right time to the right people". It is a tool designed to facilitate and automate business processes that require tasks to be performed by people. Ideal for casual or non-SAP users, since all the work items can be performed outside of SAP by simply responding to an email, SAP workflow can be linked to Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes. Each step of a business transaction can be easily monitored and processes are completed from the beginning to the end. Workflow allows process owners to keep an eye on deadlines, provides statistics on the length of time to complete work processes, determine the workload with regard to individual employees and save processing time.
The full article of Steve Bogner from Insight Consulting Partners you find here.
Who is locking anybody?
The report HFIUCPL0 generates a list of all currently locked personnel numbers. You can either send a mail via SAP office to the person who locks some master data or you can terminate the users logon session. The mail content can be customized as the report contains text elements.
How to create on-line Pay slip in ESS, with Logo
Your advantages:
• Non-technical, easy to set up (no programming/developer keys) and maintain.
• Logo and print font display look very professional.
• Full adobe acrobat options allow end user to zoom in, zoom out and determine the display size of the screen, select personal printer options to allow greater privacy, colour printing etc.
• Banks/Building societies will accept employee print-outs of the Pay slips, provided a template layout has been sent to them in advance for their records.
Here you learn step by step how to enable Pay slip for ESS using Smart Forms.
2. What’s new in Human Resources?
Talent management: Managing the best
Most organizations depend on having a certain number top people to drive research, customer relations, strategic planning or other crucial fields. However, common management wisdom often doesn’t apply very well to this key staff. In its March 2007 issue, Harvard Business Review (HBR) featured two articles on the challenge of managing of extraordinary talent. Here are the key messages in a nutshell.
You are looking for a successful HR outsourcing strategy?
√ You are a HR director facing the task of outsourcing parts of your HR and payroll functions?
√ You want to find out whether the outsourcing of HR processes could beneficial for your organization?
√ You want to cut costs and increase efficiency of your HR functions?
Here you get to know why it is important to perform a proper 'as-is' analysis before you start the outsourcing project. Check out our efficient process flow schema that helps you to identify your real potential for outsourcing and to maximize the benefits for your organization.
3. News from AdManus
Clients are satisfied with AdManus consultants
As every year our customers appraised all of our consultants within the annual anonymous customer survey. The result was again satisfactory. On a level of satisfaction from 1=very high to 5=very low the average satisfaction over all appraisals is 1.6. And the rate of return was 50 %.
More about the customer survey 2007 results you’ll find here.
Read here why AdManus annually evaluates the customer satisfaction and why we need differentiated feedback
4. News from SAP AG
GUI new - one user interface for everything
The new graphical user interface developed under the project name "MUSE" now has got a new official name. It is called "Netweaver Business Client" or also known as Smart or Rich Client. It will be delivered in 3rd quarter of 2007. In the long-run the old GUI shall be replaced by the Netweaver Business Client. Special to the new GUI is it integrates all possible services (e.g. Portal, Self Services, Dash Boards, Web 2.0, Transactions, Adobe Forms etc.). You can directly implement the Netweaver Business Client. In the first delivery there will be no changes on ECC Transactions. Later SAP will use the possibilities of the new GUI and adjust transactions. Together with the new GUI there will be a complete new development tool for customer transactions.
5. Book recommendations
SAP Query Reporting, Danielle Signorile
SAP R/3 Query tools are efficient tools to create custom reports without programming knowledge. You learn (almost) all you have to know about configuring and using these tools. This book is the most detailed about SAP Query you find on the market. Danielle - the author - is an expert in SAP query-based reporting. She already published many articles about SAP Query in the SAP Professional Journal and the SAP HR Expert magazine. The book is worth reading for everybody who creates reports - ABAP programmers as well as end-users.
Please find here the whole book review, table of contents and where to order "SAP Query Reporting".
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