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Organizational Management Integration with Personnel Administration
Monday, July 19th, 2010
Question
After performing transfer action though LSMW, the new position assigned to the employee in Infotype 0001 is not reflecting in organization structure, only the position is reflecting without person.
Answer
There are a number of outstanding questions that would need to be answered before we are able to provide a comprehensive response, however, you can start by verifying that the PLOGI setting on table T77S0 is set for OM and PA to be integrated and if this is for data conversion there are programs that are to be run after data conversion programs are run:
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RHINTE00 |
If HR Master Data is available in the above form, you can use this report to transfer data to OM. |
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RHINTE10 |
This allows for objects created in Organizational Management to be “recognized” during transactions in Personnel Administration |
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RHINTE20 |
Checks whether all of the objects relevant for integration exist in both PA and OM. |
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RHINTE30 |
Allows you to transfer a person’s org. assignment, position, org. units, etc.) from OM to Infotype 0001 in PA |
If you need further clarification, please provide us with the following information: Is this first time the LSMW was used for this action? Was Infotype 0000 populated with the action or did the program only update Infotype 0001? Were the other org. structure fields populated (org. unit, job) on Infotype 0001 or just the position? Is LSMW being used to do data conversion to prepare for go live?
Feel free to respond or ask additional questions in the comments section.
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Creating job tasks/functions in SAP
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Question
How can I create a job task/functions in SAP?
Answer
Utilizing transaction PP01 you can create a task. The object type would be a ‘T’ for Task. First create the Object Info type with both the short and long description. Complete any remaining info types as required per your requirements. The next step would be to tie the task to the job via a relationship. In PP01 enter the job object number, with an object type of ‘C’ and then choose the relationship info type. Enter B 007 as the relationship for the task to the job. The type of related object would be a ‘T’ and then enter the object number.
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Advanced Vacation Payout
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Question
Our Company is three weeks from go-live SAP HCM. We have a union rule that requires us to pay union members in advance for vacation. Many of them take five weeks all at once. We have a weekly payroll. It appears that the way to do this in SAP is to process each vacation request manually through each of the next 5 payrolls (for each employee requesting vacation). This is a huge pain for our payroll department in our legacy environment, and soon to be in SAP. Do you have any suggestions?
Answer
Step 1 - In Time Management, enter the Vacation hours for the five weeks, then run Time Evaluation for the five weeks.
Step 2 - In Payroll, there is an Off-cycle/On-Demand Payroll run option, where it can be run for the next five pay periods for the employee, so their taxes, etc. , will be calculated and taken correctly. (On the actual production payroll for the next 5 pay periods, Payroll will know and exclude the employee from the Regular Production run).
An enhancement that may be explored post go-live would involve a custom solution utilizing a combination of forms, workflow, and custom programming to automate the entry part of the process. The Time Evaluation and Off-cycle steps will already be a part of your new SAP Payroll procedure and not require any further adjustments.
Either way, we recommend you move forward with go-live and only consider a custom solution after go-live and stabilization. Waiting until after you are stabilized will allow you to have a better understanding of your new system and help you to be better prepared when you begin to make adjustments or expand your HCM solution.
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How do we stop terminating employees who are already terminated?
Monday, May 17th, 2010
Question
How do we stop terminating employees who are already terminated? It seems to be a problem in our environment.
Answer
To ensure you don’t inadvertently terminate an employee who is already terminated, ensure you use feature MSN20 in table Personnel Action Types (T529A) in the field named ‘Check’ (NAMEN) for any termination actions. This guarantees that when running a termination action, a check is made to ensure the employee has an employment status not equal to withdrawn (0).
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How can a position report to two positions?
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Question
I had an OM question about dotted line relationships and how a position can report to 2 persons? I think this is done in Matrix organizations although I have rarely seen people use it.
Answer
If you have need of a position reporting to a Chief AND another position, try using the 742 relationship. A742 (Indirectly Reports To) and B742 (Is Indirect Supervisor Of) are relationships that can be set up between positions in addition to the A012/B012 relationship. You can easily report off of this relationship via an evaluation path.
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Can we transfer an Employee from one Payroll area to another without losing history?
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Question
Is there a way to transfer an employee from one payroll area to another and assigning the employee with new payroll id ensuring all the history from previous payroll id is copied over as well?
Answer
In SAP, moving an employee from one payroll area to another is quite easy. Simply run a personnel action to move them to the other payroll area. This action is usually associated with some type of change to the employee’s corporate structure such as hourly to salary. These actions are most likely already configured in your system (i.e. organizational re-assignment action). The employee’s personnel number will not change when changing payroll areas – just their payroll area code. All previous payroll history will be available for that employee.
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How do we expand a feature? Is there something called a subfeature?
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Question
We have a requirement for a feature to drive off of many decisions. There are too many for the feature to accept. How can we get our feature to work?
Answer
This problem occurs when you want to default a value via a feature but there are too many decisions to be accommodated in that feature. For example, your feature is based on all of the following decision points:
· Molga
· Benefit Area
· Personnel Area
· Personnel Subarea
· Employee Group
· Contract Field
There are too many decisions points for just one feature. Try using a sub-feature to handle the extra decision points.
To create a sub-feature, follow these instructions:
Copy the current feature and save as a custom feature – i.e. ZXXXX. Go to ‘Structure’ and change the check mark to ‘Sub-feature’ and deselect ‘passing type’. Configure your new custom feature with your additional decisions values. Then, configure your original feature by inserting or ‘calling’ your sub-feature at the appropriate level and make sure you indicate that this is a sub-feature for your node type – not a ‘return’ value or ‘field for decision operation’. The original feature then will call your sub-feature for the remaining decisions and will return the appropriate default value.
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Can you automate OM via Workflow?
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Question
We are trying to get OM up and running for workflows. My boss wants the OM maintenance automated (i.e. using custom ABAP to manage the daily updates on OM…new hires and position changes). In the clients that you worked for, did anyone automate this process or can this process be automated?
Answer
If your Organizational Management side is not automatically updated with your Personnel Administration actions (for such things as new hires or changes in an employee’s position), this indicates that the OM/PA integration is turned off. The simplest way to rectify this is to turn integration ‘on’ via table T77S0. In this table, set the value of PLOG ORGA to ‘X’. Additionally, ensure that feature PLOGI defaults an X to your appropriate area of your organization where you want integration on. Be careful when setting integration on in an existing system as they may have been reasons why integration has not been turned on.
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How can I take Benefit plans out of my drop down lists?
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Question
I don’t want to show obsolete plans in my drop down lists, but don’t want to delimit them because I want to keep my history intact. What can I do?
Answer
In order to prevent your old plans from showing in the drop down lists, delimit them at the plan level.
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Configuring IT 0008 (Basic Pay) for automatic loading of pay scales
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Question
I have hourly employee’s that are on Hourly Pay Scale and salaried employees on pay grade. How do I configure my IT0008 to make this automatic when I am creating a record for a specific employee?
Answer
This is controlled in the feature TARIF where the return value must have the form xx/yy/z, in which xx is the pay scale type, yy the pay scale area, and z the planned remuneration type. The planned remuneration type can be ‘S’ to enable selection of pay grade values from table T710, ‘P’ to enable default values from the Planned Compensation Infotype of the EE’s position. If a there is no value selected for the planned remuneration type in the feature, the selection will come from table T510 which is the Pay Scale table.
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