Newsletter in SAP® HR (December 2005)

Content:

• Create own Evaluation paths
• How to transport selection and layout variants
• Excluding the access to HR data of managers
• Ageing Workforce – how to forecast the age structure

1. Tips in mySAP® HR

Organizational Management: Create own Evaluation paths
We often hear on projects or seminars that many customers are unsure about customizing a new evaluation path. Today we’d like to give you a step-by-step instruction how to create customer evaluation paths. For the whole article about creating an Evaluation path do click here.

How to transport selection and layout variants
Complex variants created for testing in development system you do not need to recreate manually in productive system.
Selection variants you can transport as follows: Call up the Reporting service (transaction code SA38) and enter the program. Use the menu path Goto ► Variants and after Utilities ► Transport request and press Execute. In the following picture select the variants you want to transport and confirm with Continue. Now choose your Workbench request.
Layout variants can be transported in the following way: First do execute the report and then use the path Settings ► Layout ► Manage. Select the wished layout (attention! only standard layouts possible) and use Layout ► Transport. Now choose your Customizing request.

Excluding the access to HR data of managers
With the decentralization of HR processes, more and more Users have access to HR-data (e.g. via MDT - Manager's Desktop, TMW - Time Manager's Workplace, MSS - Manager Self Service). No matter whether you control the access to HR-data via the typical fields of P_ORGIN and other authorization objects or via structural authorization: it sometimes very difficult to make sure that nobody can see the salary of his superiors.
In a complex environment, most solutions to this problem are either very inefficient (through a high number and/or high complexity of roles) or have some downsides (e.g. a user that should not see his own manager's data, is denied access to all other managers too).
The best generic solution to this problem can be reached using the BAdI HRPAD00AUTH_CHECK. There you can check, whether the current user is a subordinate of the person who's data he tries to access. To allow the access of certain "harmless" data, you should establish a new customizing table where all infotypes considered critical can be entered.
As a prerequisite of this solution, you need to have the line of command exactly maintained in organizational management.

2. What’s new in Human Resources?

Ageing Workforce?!
How to identify the future age structure with help of workforce forecast
Politics and pension fund managers already have cared about the demographic change of the society for a long time. Now more and more companies are discussing the problem, too. The increasing average age of the workforce is a new challenge to the companies.
In the latest issue of German magazine „Personalwirtschaft“ two articles show which problems companies have to take care of soon. Furthermore it will be necessary to estimate the current and future age structure of the workforce. Click here to read the full article and get to know how to forecast the age structure into the future.

3. Book Recommendations

Paul Kearns: Evaluating the ROI from Learning
"Training is guilty until proven innocent" - this sentence from chapter 2 provokes any trainer. But the book is not meant to argue against training or other forms of learning. Paul Kearns wants to show, how a learning cycle can be established that really delivers added value. Click here to read the detailed book review.

Mastering HR Management with SAP – soon available
This book was written for SAP PRESS® by two AdManus consultants Christian Kraemer and Sven Ringling and by Song Yang.
You will get a step-by-step guide to the entire personnel management process, from recruiting, to personnel controlling, and beyond. This book comes complete with practical examples regarding user roles, and covers all of the new enhancements, improved features and tools that have been introduced with R/3 Enterprise. Uncover the ins and outs of e-recruiting, organizational management, personnel administration, payroll, benefits, quality assurance, rolebased portals, and many others. The book is based on release 4.7 (R/3 Enterprise) and mySAP ERP 2004. Read more about the book or order it at SAP PRESS®

4. 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 „Quality Assurance“.
You find the lesson via this link