Newsletter May 2007

Useful tips for your work with SAP® HR

What you will miss if you don't read further:

• International HR? - Spring-Cleaning for Customizing
• Considering Deduction Interval in Case of Quota Compensations
• Retracing deleted Time Events
• Package: Authorizations with SAP HR
• Return on Talents - A new Metrics that Could Put HR in the Drivers Seat
• SAP AG: Enhancement Framework?
• Book: SAP Authorization System

1 Tips in SAP® HR

Clean up the basic configuration for international HR-data
The first international use of SAP HR often doesn’t start with a large rollout project over several processes including payroll. In many cases it is just about maintaining a few infotypes for employees in foreign subsidiaries. Even if HR is used for one country only, you need certain basic customizing settings for other countries, e.g. in order to maintain foreign addresses or reimburse travel expenses fort rips abroad.
However, after several years of neglect due to focus on one country only, the respective customizing settings are often in very poor shape.
Get to know which settings you should check regularly and compare with client 000.

Considering deduction interval in case of quota compensations
As for the deduction of absences (IT2001) the deduction interval is considered in case of quota compensations (IT0416) the deduction interval is ignored. This is how the SAP standard system works, but you can change it. You have to make a modification to consider the deduction interval in case of quota compensations. The SAP-Note 818886 describes the necessary modifications.

Retracing deleted time events
In infotype 2011 "Time Events" deleted time events don’t appear any more. Automatically entered time events will not completely be deleted though. They are still available in table TEVEN and in the field STOKZ marked as canceled. If you should once have the necessity to trace the time events, then you can view all data via transaction code SE16 - provided that you have adequate authorization.

2 Our fixed prize packages

Workshop Authorizations with SAP HR
Do you have a huge amount of roles that are hard to maintain? Doesn’t your former authorization concept fit to your current requirements anymore? Then let’s together redesign your authorization concept and minimize the number of roles.
>>> Download our fixed price package "Workshop Authorizations with SAP HR"

3 What’s new in Human Resources?

Return on Talent - A New Metrics that Could Put HR in the Drivers Seat
The McKinsey Quarterly (www.mckinseyquarterly.com) recently published an article from Lowell Bryan, director in McKinsey’s New York Office. In this article, the author argued that "Return on Equity (ROE)" is a measure of the last century and should be replaced or at least complemented by the new measure "Return on Talent (ROT)" to support decision making.
Read further and get to know more about the author's point of view.

Recruitment rating website
HireScores.com is a brand new website, developed by experienced recruitment professionals to deliver independent ratings and information about firms throughout the industry. The site invites candidates to rate their experiences of recruitment firms and provide feedback. The ratings system, created in conjunction with both employers and recruitment firms, then produces aggregate results and rankings that are displayed online. The best recruitment companies can highlight their results by creating a free profile of their business and gain clear competitive advantage when targeting both client firms and high-quality candidates.
Different comments to this new site you'll find at the Recruiter Magazine.

4 News from SAP AG

Enhancement Framework
The cool new way to enhance your ABAP systems
Available in Release 7.0 of the SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP (SAP NetWeaver 2004s)
The new enhancement concept of the ABAP Workbench (Enhancement Framework) enables the integration of different concepts for modifying and enhancing development objects.
In the long-term, the new Enhancement Framework is to replace or incorporate the existing enhancement and modification concepts.
>>> Read further

5 Book recommendations

SAP Authorization System
IBM Business Consulting Services

While implementing SAP HR this practical guide helps with most authorization aspects. The described procedure for developing and implementing an individual authorization concept will be of interest for leaders, project members and consultants. The authors introduce the different features of SAP authorizations and help to find the right strategy for your company.
You should not expect too much about specialties of HR authorizations. E.g. structural authorization is barely and context-sensitive solution not at all explained. The authors themselves say this would fill another book.

The authors of AdManus network just started with a new book project "SAP HR Authorizations". If you want to share any issues or company specific solutions in HR authorizations we appreciate your advice (info@admanus.de).
Click here for more information about the book, its content and where to order it.

6 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 "Authorizations". You find the lesson via this link.