Newsletter in SAP® HR (July 2005)
175 subscribers receive this issue of the English AdManus Newsletter (590 already subscribed to the German Newsletter).
Content:
- Improve usability and quality within your SAP HR application
- Customizing of columns in MDT
- SAP ERP 2004: New functionality in structural authorization
- Change description of organizational objects – new infotype 1
- New: Our fixed price packages
- If you are looking for a coach …
- German Language Lesson: Personnel Cost Planning
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. This is not only triggered by the requirements of various audits but also a question of gaining a more efficient system and reducing the costs of HR-processes.
The experts of AdManus helped various customers to improve quality and usability with workshops, coaching, customizing, and custom development. This article provides valuable advice based on our experience.
Please read all about how to improve the usability and quality within you SAP HR application
Customizing of columns in MDT
With release 4.7 or higher the IMG provides all you need to define your own column groups and the visibility of columns within each group. However, in 4.6c you may come to the conclusion, that you are not able to change these settings, as they are not properly included in the IMG. For this purpose you have to use transaction SM31 and directly maintain the tables T77ACOL and T77ACOLINI.
SAP ERP 2004: New functionality in structural authorization
With ERP 2004 there are two new features in structural authorization:
- Table T77UA contains an "Exclusion-Flag“. When this is set, the user will have access to all objects but those included in the profile assigned to him.
- When using the context sensitive solution, you can avoid maintaining table T77UA by means of the new BAdI HRBAS00_GET_PROFL.
Change description of organizational objects – new infotype 1
If you would like to change the object names of your organizational units copying infotype „Object“ 1000, neither the system automatically creates a new entry in infotype “Organizational Assignment” 0001, nor the up-to-date description will be visible in the existing infotype 1.
A solution for this problem is the parameter PLOGI SPLIT in table T77S0. Note: if you activate the parameter, the system only marks the personnel numbers affected by the changes. With report RHINTE30 you can then create a batch input session for those personnel numbers. Processing this session, new infotype 1 records for the persons concerned are created. Alternatively a custom report executed by a job can do those splits without using a batch input.
Attention! The parameter PLOGI PRELU creates a new infotype 1 record while changing the Organizational Management (e.g. changing assignments). This parameter should always have the value „blank“, so that changes are transferred immediately to Personnel Administration.
Efficient Table Maintenance
With the Transaction SE16N "General Table Display" it is not only possible to display table entries more comfortable than with the transaction SE16. Moreover -using a little trick- it is also possible to maintain table entries in a quite comfortable way (create, change, delete or copy entries). Especially if you like to change a big amount of data, using the SE16N can minimize your effort on this. To do so, just enter &SAP_EDIT into the command field when you are at the selection-screen of the transaction SE16N (the system activates the SAP editing function). After starting the table selection, buttons to maintain the table entries are available... but please be aware of what you do.
2. Our fixed price packages
3. What’s new in Human Resources?
If you are looking for a coach …
The magazine Human Resources lately published an article about „Quick guide to coaching in the workplace“. Coaching originally comes from sports. Now there are coaches of all kinds and for different occasions – for Personnel work, too.
What exactly is a coach?
A coach is not a mentor. Mentors are usually older, more experienced colleagues from your own organisation. Mentors often introduce new employees and give them support on their new job in the starting time. A Coach on the other side „should be dispassionate, detached, and almost impersonal”. For some executives “coaches become a status symbol like a company car”, worries Rob Davies.
What is important while looking for a coach?
Do have clear objectives! Executives who are looking for a coach should go well prepared in a relationship. It is important, to “work out your objectives and what you want to achieve”. Where and at what shall the coach give you support?
While reviewing something a good coach „is questioning and challenging, and not advising“. A coach also should „make you more motivated to take action“ and to give you „a greater sense of self“. Furthermore, Lisa Rowles says, the coach should “listen 70% of the time and talk 30%”.
How is coaching working?
Coaching can take place in every possible way: face-to-face, on the phone or even per mail. The important thing is that both parties agree about this and the content of conversations remains confidential. The amount of time spent together is not important. A 10-minute phone call can already be useful – be it to renew your effort, to release pent-up energy or for decision making.
iProCon, founder of AdManus, also offers executive coaching in HR processes and mySAP®HR. If you as a project manager or head of HR would like to get competent advice from an expert for a monthly fee, please write us an e-mail mailto:kontakt@iprocon.de. More information about this and how you get your personal HR-coach you can read here: http://www.iprocon.de/int/leistungen/coaching.htm
4. German Language Lesson
For 3 years now, we encourage our German subscribers to improve their English with a small lesson containing vocabulary from HR-related topics. Now we give you the chance to learn some German HR-vocabulary as well.
In this issue, the subject of the lesson is "Personnel Cost Planning". You find it via this link: Language Lesson
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