Newsletter October 2009

Useful tips for your work with SAP® HCM

Our topics:

SAP e-Rec Search Engine Service
SAP e-Rec with EHP4
Advantages and limitations of context authorization
Mass deleting SAP Queries
Conversion VM to LSO
Companies could be swamped by the elderly wave
Managing International IT Projects

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1 Tips in SAP® HCM

SAP E-Recruiting search engine service from EHP3
With EHP3 the connection to the TREX search engine has been renewed. The TREX search has on the one hand a better performance on the other hand it is more stable. The search applications have been revised and are now being shipped with new features. To use the new possibilities of search, the following requirements must be met:

TREX in version 7.0 or 7.1
SAP NetWeaver 7.0
Business Function HCM, SAP E-Recruiting 1 (HCM_ERC_CI_1) must be active

Procedure:

Enable BusinessFunction SAP E-Recruiting Search Functions 1 (HCM_ERC_SES_1).
Follow all the steps as described by the note 1098046.

Article from Knauer&Krüger

To all who are already using SAP E-Recruiting!
Please note: if you activate Business Function HCM_TMC_CI_1 (Enhancement Package 4) the start pages for the recruiter and the administrator which are based on the Business Server Pages (BSP) technology won’t be supported anymore. They are now integrated in the Enterprise Portal. You therefore have to redesign the authorization roles for the recruiter and the administrator. Additionally you have to readjust two workflows. More changes caused of the new Business Function concern the search function, the Query reporting and the correspondence – please also read SAP note 1241014.
Article from iProCon

Context-dependent authorization checks – advantages and limitations
A lot has recently been said about context-dependent authorization checks in HCM. For more information on what they can do and what they can’t, read here.
Article from Projektkultur

Mass deleting SAP Queries
After intensive use of SAP Query or Ad-hoc-Query, the necessity frequently occurs to extinguish a variety of only once or seldom used Queries. Due to the fact that the menu item ‘Queries’ in the maintenance transaction of SAP Query SQ01 only offers the data maintenance of single Queries, larger clearing actions become very exhausting. The solution to extinguish several Queries is well hidden: Start transaction SQ02, then choose menupoint Goto > Query directory. You find the report RSAQDEL0 „Directory of Queries“. Achieving this report a register is received, within marking of several Queries and deleting of the marked Queries is possible.
Article from Hassmann-Consulting

Conversion from Training and Event Management to Learning Solution
You want to find out what needs to be considered for your changeover from Training and Event Management to Learning Solution? Read here.
Article from Projektkultur

2 What´s new in Human Resources?

Companies could be swamped by the elderly wave
Germanys’ aging society will have a fare more reaching impact on the companies’ age distribution, than yet recognized. It is an inevitable fact that from the year 2020 almost half of the existing workforce will be older than 50 years. This makes clear that the companies need to recognize older employees as a human resource which is getting more important every day. The valuable experience of older employees is an asset which must be utilized to increase productivity and competitiveness.
Read here.

3 Our Fixed Price Offers

Managing International IT Projects
International Rollout of SAP HCM is high on the agenda more and more often for large as well as medium sized organisations. However, all too often these projects drag on for ages, are far more expensive than expected, and even after the project is finished they usually fail to deliver the business results as effectively and fast as required. Get to know, which reasons are quoted the most for these issues, what the real underlying reasons are and why you should not miss the workshop "Managing International IT Projects" - delivered by a PMI-certified project manager of iProCon HCM, who has lead successful projects across all continents.

4 News from AdManus

New customer
iProCon has got a new customer in SAP HCM: the European Central Bank.

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