Newsletter August 2009

Useful tips for your work with SAP® HCM

Our topics:

• Tips on the SAP Release Strategy, Documents posted from payroll, Spool jobs, Transport of roles, and the new SAP GUI
• Acronyms - would you have known? EHP, ETL, and FPM
• New fixed price offers in Org. Mgmt., Shift Planning, and SAP Workflow
• Event tip: HR2009 conference in Prague

"Things get done by doing."
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1 Tips in SAP® HCM

News on the SAP Release Strategy
For how long does SAP guarantee maintenance of the so-called HCM Core? For information on the latest SAP plans, click here.
Article from Projektkultur

Analyzing documents posted from payroll
The SAP note 1030112 (Report for Analyzing posted documents) delivered the new report RPCIP_DOCUMENT_ANALYSE. The report can be used to analyze simulation runs as well as productive runs. Get to know more about why you don’t need to manually analyze posted documents anymore.
Article from iProCon

How to convert spool jobs to PDF documents
Report RSTXPDFT4 converts spool jobs to PDF documents and downloads them into any file.
Article from iProCon

Transport of roles without user assignment
When transporting authorization roles no user assignment will be imported in the productive system if the parameter „USER_REL_IMPORT = NO“ is set in table PRGN_CUST. More settings for role transportation in transaction PFCG you will find in SAP note 571276.
Article from iProCon

SAP GUI – What’s this new visual design about?
SAP has delivered the new SAP Signature Design with Windows Version 7.10 Patch 11. “Signature” is the name for a new look and feel of the SAP GUI. The SAP Signature Visual Design harmonizes the user interfaces of different SAP products (e.g. SAP CRM 2007, SAP Business ByDesign, SAP Business All-in-One). Get to know more and see a screenshot of the Signature-Design.
Article from iProCon

2 Acronyms in SAP® HCM from A - Z

Would you have known?

EHP – Since ERP Release (Enterprise Resource Planning) new functionality in SAP are delivered via Enhancement Packages. With this new policy it won’t take as much time to run upgrade changes as it took with Release R/3.

ETL- The process of transferring data in SAP NetWeaver BI, also called the ETL process, is composed of the components extraction, transformation, and loading.
Relevant data is selected from the source system for the extraction.
Data can be compressed, harmonized and changed for the transformation.
The loading process then follows. More information about SAP NetWeaver BI you find in HR-Reporting with SAP®.

FPM – the Floorplan Manager is like a frame for different Web Services in the portal. The Floorplan Manager contains the design, the navigation, the personalization, the messaging, and handles data losses. Floorplan areas are messaging area, navigation area, and the roadmap, which is a sequence of activities, e.g. creating travel expenses.

3 Our Fixed Price Offers

Organization Management takes a central role in HCM and beyond. Design your own organisational management within SAP HCM together with our experts – either before starting a project or as a redesign for improving your application.
Incorporate the interests and perspectives of the various departments of your company and their relevance for your organisation.
Fixed price offer of 2.900 Euro.
http://www.projektkultur.com/pk_media/Starterpaket_OM_Projektkultur_English.pdf

Shift Planning (SP) within SAP HCM is fully integrated with the master data, the organizational management, and time management. Together with our experts, investigate the advantages of shift planning within HCM and simplify your processes.
Develop your own run capable and easily adaptable prototype for the discussion with your users.
Fixed price offer of 2.900 Euro.
http://www.projektkultur.com/pk_media/Starterpaket_PEP_Projektkultur_English.pdf

Managing Ad-hoc Substitutions using SAP® Workflow
Improve your approval processes and let workitems no longer be undone. If an employee is absent unexpectedly and has not entered a substitute or his substitute is absent, too, somebody else has to forward the work items, which are staying in the approver’s workplace as well as to manage his future work items. The standard SAP has no solution for this case. So, iProCon has developed an Add-On to Manage Ad-hoc Substitutions.

4 Events in SAP® ERP HCM

WIS is hosting the SAP Insider HR2009 conference in Prague, 18. - 20. November. The event features about 60 informative sessions and various other opportunities to learn about the latest best practise in SAP HCM and HR-IT strategy. Sven Ringling, Consultant at iProCon HCM, will speak on 5 sessions:

• Proven change management strategies that ensure a successful transition to a global SAP ERP HCM platform (non technical)
• Strategies for assessing the costs and benefits of your HR technology investments (non technical)
• Proven techniques to optimize your global performance management strategy (non technical)
• Best practices to reduce the risk of security violations across your global HR application landscape (local vs. global configuration teams, technical)
• Benefits, risks, and tradeoffs of outsourcing HR business processes in an SAP ERP HCM environment (non technical)

Conference delegates who want to meet me in Prague are invited to get in touch beforehand to arrange a meeting via s.ringling@iproconhcm.co.uk or +44 7920 840 590.
Readers who’d like to discuss any of these topics, but can’t attend the event, are also encouraged to get in touch for an informal discussion.

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