Newsletter May 2006

Content:

• How to improve the usability within your SAP HR application
• Tips about personnel action, organisational management and payroll
• Workforce forecast – where to use it
• AdManus Annual customer survey 2006
• Book: Coaching for Performance

1. Tips in mySAP® HR

Improve usability and quality within your SAP HR application
Most organizations that have implemented SAP HR are now looking for ways to improve their SAP-supported HR-processes in terms of usability and quality. In our 07/2005 issue we dealt with the optimisation of the user interface and various other possibilities to avoid wrong data to be kept in the system. In this issue we will

• show you some options to improve quality and stability of processes by automating them and
• give you some ideas for more effective reporting.

Current change of infotypes belonging to a personnel action
After you have executed a personnel action on the first dynpro “Copy Actions” you’ll find the button “Change info group”. The button allows displaying the infotypes which belong to the selected action as well as changing the sequence, adding new infotypes or deleting them. The change will only affect the selected personnel number.

Termination action
The termination action has not to be executed for employees who retire or will be absent for a longer time, e.g. because of maternity leave or military service. Those employees then would get the employment status „Withdrawn“. The right status are „Retiree“ or „Inactive“.

1.1. Tips from ROC Consulting, Weybridge UK

Organisational Management
In this tip you get to know how to restrict Person assignment to Position/Positions more than 100% and how to prevent two people hiring to one Position?

Tips on deleting unwanted payroll posting data
Read here to learn what is deleted when one deletes a payroll posting run, how to delete the unwanted payroll posting data and what is the right tool to delete.

2. What’s new in Human Resources?

Developing personnel strategies with a vision
- More examples how to use for the workforce forecast -

In our newsletter from December 2005 we have already shown how you can predict the demographic change using the workforce forecast. How does this technique help to evaluate your appraisal system and restructuring your workforce?

3. News from AdManus

AdManus Annual customer survey 2006

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 2006 results you’ll find here.

Read here why AdManus annually evaluates the customer satisfaction and why we need differentiated feedback

4. Book Recommendations

Coaching for Performance
John Whitmore

High performance is not reached by instructions or commands. Instead Coaching is approved to maximize performance. John Whitmore clearly shows this free of artificial methods and theories in the expanded and fully revised third edition of his bestselling handbook. A worth reading book!
For more information about “Coaching for Performance” and the table of content you will find here.

5. German Language Lesson

We invite you to practise your German language skills as our German subscribers do it reverse. In this issue the subject of the lesson is „HR Shared Services“.
You find the lesson via this link