Newsletter October 2008
Useful tips for your work with SAP® HCM
Today you’ll find in our newsletter:
- Tips: better performance in OM, how to simplify HR authorizations
- Explained: Abbreviations in SAP: BAdI, BI, BSC
- Meet us at the HR2008 in Amsterdam
- Already realized? New design of iProCon site
- New book: 'Authorizations in SAP ERP HCM'
- Free download of Chapter 'Structural Authorization Check'
"If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got."
Abraham Lincoln
1 Tips in SAP® HCM
Cleaning up is never a waste of time: Deleting obsolete data sets in HRP-tables
After several years of applying organization management, event management, personnel development etc, the number of objects in HRP* tables is continuously rising. As a consequence, you might experience diminished performance within the context of the structural authorizations. In order to find out how to selectively delete obsolete sets of data with the standard report RHRHDL00, look here.
Article from Projektkultur
To all authorization administrators:
The report RHUSERRELATIONS enabled you to evaluate HR authorization profiles that exist for a user. The latest Support Packages provide a new transaction HRAUTH which makes the report obsolete.
In this article you get to know which new functions the HR Authorization Workbench has and why you should add this transaction to your favorites.
Article from iProCon
Derive roles to simplify your HR authorizations
Deriving roles makes sense if multiple users are supposed to have the same user menu with the same authorizations for different areas of responsibility (organizational levels). The organizational level is the employee’s area of responsibility. For whom does the user have authorizations to implement certain functions? The area of responsibility can be the personnel area or an administrator key, for example. How to create organizational level fields and how to use this and other concepts to simplify authorization administration you learn in 'Authorization in SAP ERP HCM'.
2 Abbreviations in SAP® HCM from A - Z
BAdI - Business Add-Ins enable you to implement requirements that exceed the SAP standard without having to modify it. They also enable you to change the standard code at places predefined by SAP and implement customer-specific
checks. ('Authorizations in SAP ERP HCM')
BI - Business Intelligence was former called SAP Business Information Warehouse. SAP NetWeaver BI - its full description – is implemented in HR Reporting by many organizations. It integrates organizational data of different systems and offers flexible analytical reporting. (for further information see 'HR-Reporting with SAP')
BSC - Balanced Scorecard is part of the Strategic Enterprise Management. It can establish a relationship between aggregated key figures from different areas (e.g. personnel, accounting, logistics) and trace those figures back to lower aggregation levels. (for further information see chapter 11 in 'Mastering HR Management with SAP')
3 Events in SAP ERP HCM
We are at the HR 2008 conference in Amsterdam
Please note: You can meet one of our experts at the HR 2008! Sven Ringling, iProCon Human Capital Management will present:
If you want to meet the author Sven Ringling at the conference, please drop him a line: s.ringling@iprocon.de
4 Publications from AdManus
Professors Keith Goffin and Rick Mitchell from Cranfield School of Management and iProCon HCM consultant Sven Ringling published an article in the German magazine 'Personalführung', the magazine of the German Association of People Management. In 'Eine Frage der Kultur' (Innovation-promoting organizational culture) they provide an overview of innovation management successes and take into account the high importance attributed to personnel, culture and organisation in promoting innovation.
To order a free sample of the German magazine, please fill in the contact form. First chose "Zeitschrift Personalführung" and in 'Anmerkung/Mitteilung' enter 'Probeexemplar der Personalführung Ausgabe 07/2008'. (You have to fill in every bold field.)
5 News from AdManus
New design of iProCon Homepage
Have you already realized it? The web presence of iProCon has been renewed and is now presented as more compact, clear, and useful. Our customers should judge, if we succeeded to improving the performance of our web presence. So please have a look at our new site! We are looking forward to getting your ideas for improvement, criticism and/or praise! Please mail to kontakt@iprocon.de
5 Book recommendations
Authorizations in SAP® ERP HCM
Martin Esch, Anja Junold
Who has access or permission to retrieve or change your sensitive HR data? This is a critical question for every company to consider, and in this book AdManus authors describe how you can create and implement an appropriate authorization strategy for the specific processes in your own company, using SAP ERP HCM. You’ll find answers to all of your questions, from explaining what the differences and areas of usage are in the general, structural, and context-sensitive authorization checks, to the specific challenges involved in using performance management functions.
Please find more information about 'Authorizations in SAP ERP HCM' and free download of Chapter 3 'Structural Authorization Check'.
5 German Language Lesson
We invite you to practice your German language skills as our German subscribers do it reverse. In this issue the lesson is about successful organizational design. You find the lesson via this link.
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