Newsletter April 2010

Useful tips for your work with SAP® HCM

Our topics:

How to optimize performance in structrual authorization
E-Rec: Learn more about job and profile agents
Authorized Pernr per User
Error when saving a relationship
New Add-On for the Learning solution
Workshop Time Management
Book recommendation: Understanding patterns of project behaviour
Results of AdManus customer survey

“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
Eric Hoffer

1 Tips in SAP® HCM

Performance optimization in the structural authorization check
Structural authorization checks require lots of response time. Wherever the number of structurally admissible objects is large, first-time retrieval of a transaction affected by structural inspection may take quite long. Find out what can be done to optimize the structural authorization check.
Article from Projektkultur

E-Recruiting: Job and Profile Agent
On the startpage for the external candidate is in the TAB-rider recruitment the service “job agent´”. In this service there are two independent agents (job and profile agent), which at first glance is not clear. Read more about the two agents.
Article from Knauer&Krüger

E-Recruiting disappeard in IMG
With EhP4 some areas of the eRecruiting customizing disapear in the IMG. You can now access the former IMG by transaction code OO_HRRCF_IMG1.
Article from iProCon

Authorized Pernr per User
Very often the question is: who is allowed to see whom in the PD authorization. The report RHAUTH01 shows all authorized objects per User. You can run the report either via transaction SA38 or via the i-button in table T77UA (transaction OOSB, assigning authorization profiles to users). The authorized objects are only shown with their IDs. It is hard to get a quick overview, who is actually in the list. Therefore we have modified this report a little: two more columns with name and organisational unit are now shown in the table of report RHAUTH01.
Article from iProCon

Error when saving a relationship
When you save a relationship in organisation management, the system issues the error message: "No time constraint exists for key &1." (HRBAS_ITF 500) The reason is the system runs a BadI implementation of the component EA-DFP (DefenceForces&PublicSecurity), although the business function is not activated. This SAP error can be solved by implementing the sap note 1293363 (Message HRBAS_INF 500 when saving a relationship).
Article from iProCon

2 Tools in SAP® HCM

Bowline - Add-on to the SAP Learning Solution
Projektkultur and Hassmann Consulting have entered a cooperation partnership with Lighthouse MCM GmbH. This partnership includes mutual support in projects related to SAP Learning Solutions, and the implementation of the SAP Learning Solution add-ons from the Bowline family of products. Read more on Bowline.

3 Fixed Price Offer in SAP® HCM

Workshop Time Management
Time evaluation in HCM is subjected to continuous change. Legal and operational modifications constantly generate new requirements; the acceptance of new sectors into time management, as well as error correction contribute to the fact that after several years the time management scheme has become extremely complex and difficult to adapt. Other time management processes also require in-depth examination: Time recording (Time Managers Workplace, Employee Self Service …), Shift planning, Quota, Error processing, Reports incl. time slip, Authorizations.
Together with our experts, take a moment to examine your time management, with a focus on time evaluation within SAP ERP HCM. We will support you in identifying your own weak points and in developing a concept for a future-oriented, sustainable re-design - all included in a fixed price package of € 2.900 (plus travel expenses).

4 Book recommendation

Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies
Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior
By Tom DeMarco and other "gurus"
iProCon Ltd. recommends this easy-read book which describes 86 typical behavioural patterns with a strong impact on success or failure of any project. The succinct descriptions make it easier to identify these patterns in your organisation. Highly recommended for project and programme managers, but even more important for project sponsors and executives, who often drive project teams into an unwanted pattern without even realising it themselves. For a 2 page review click here: "Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior".

5 News from AdManus

AdManus Customer Survey 2010 has been completed
As in previous years, all AdManus-consultants decided to face up to an anonymised evaluation by their customers. And again, the result was an enjoyable one: On a scale of 1 (very high) to 5 (extremely low), average customer satisfaction was 1.7, including all evaluations provided. For more details on the survey results, click here.

We report on our quality management
Please find here our latest quality reports:
QM report iProCon
QM report Projektkultur
QM report Knauer & Krueger

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