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Symphony Webinar: Tips and Tricks for Year-end Payroll: How to Be Proactive, Not Reactive
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Join us for this free webinar and find out how to prepare for year-end payroll
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Time: 2:00PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Common year-end payroll mistakes can quickly multiply your headaches during an already busy time. To ensure a smooth year-end transition, this webinar will guide you through the steps to preparing for year-end payroll. Let Symphony – the SAP HCM experts – teach you key strategies to put into action to streamline the year-end payroll process and prepare for the upcoming year. Kathy Morris, a Senior Consultant at Symphony Management Consulting and former SAP “Year-end Tax Angel” will discuss best practices for year-end payroll and provide tips on:
· How to get your system ready and perform configuration updates
· Ways to approach YE processing to ensure success
· What tools are available to assist with YE closing
· How to create an annual project plan and check list
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/784467408
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The Power of Benchmarking
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Benchmarking is the continuous process of comparing and measuring an organization’s business processes against those of business leaders anywhere in the world. We all know that identifying and implementing best practices will generate business excellence. We also know that benchmarking is no magic cure - but when executed properly, it promotes continuous improvement.
For HR people, this translates into the following:
- Standardizing and automating transaction processing to reduce the cost of delivering basic HR services
- Using freed-up resources to support an integrated talent-management process
- Integrating HR and relevant non-HR systems to eliminate information barriers and reduce time to market
- Providing every manager access to decision-support tools and people information
- Delivering relevant business metrics to front-line managers, linking people processes to operational performance
- Benchmarking HR’s performance against industry metrics and best practices
For those of you who have not heard of it, there is a dedicated ASUG/SAP benchmarking and best practices program providing an excellent forum for SAP customers to track trends, share best practices, and measure value based upon key performance drivers. To date, more than 200 companies have participated in the study, including more than 30 participants from the high-tech industry, with revenues of between less than $1 billion to more than $10 billion. The study covers the full scope of HR business process, segmented in sub-processes such as recruiting and staffing, learning and development, and payroll administration.
For more information about the program, visit www.asug.com/benchmarking or contact benchmarking@asug.com. Please also visit: https://www.benchmarking.sap.com/files/surveyExamples/HCM_Sample_Report.pdf.
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Symphony Webinar: Achieving a Higher ROI on SAP ERP HCM Investments
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Join us for this free webinar and find out how to achieve a higher return on investment (ROI) on SAP ERP HCM Investments
Many organizations are eager to add functionality that tracks and maintains employee data. Often, the human resources department is tasked with this responsibility and can struggle to provide an effective business case to their executive team for approval.
Let Symphony provide an overview and critical advice on how to effectively identify strategic returns on investment (ROI) when communicating with executive leadership. We will point out some areas that executives look at in order to measure the need for an HCM solution for attracting, developing and retaining the right employees. Not only will we discuss some examples where Symphony has assisted clients to present a business case to their leadership, but you will also learn how to ask for and receive approval for the funding of a state of the art HCM environment.
What you’ll take away:
- How to properly assess SAP ERP HCM functionality in order to attract, develop, and retain the right employees.
- How to align functionality with corporate objectives to meet your organization’s unique needs.
- Proven advice to prevent common pitfalls that can drive up costs in SAP ERP HCM projects.
- Ways to measure the key personnel-related factors that can make or break the ROI for your SAP ERP HCM project.
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Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/985159681
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
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Symphony co-hosts upcoming webinar with Symmetry
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Wednesday, June, 16 2010 at 2:00 pm EST
Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/750333336
Many organizations struggle with decisions on how to best incorporate SAP HCM into their technical environment. The question that often arises is whether or not to implement HCM on a separate landscape. This consideration is a key concern for smaller organizations that cannot afford the financial burden of an additional landscape. In the end, many companies do choose to maintain a separate HCM landscape however, issues such as data security and privacy concerns do not have to be the driving factors in making this decision.
Let Symmetry - the SAP security experts; and Symphony - the SAP HCM experts, walk you through some of the most common misconceptions about HCM security before you make that critical decision and spend money on a new environment.
In this free session Kellie Fitzpatrick (Symphony) and Scott Goolik (Symmetry) will discuss the pros and cons of implementing HCM on a separate instance and why data security and privacy issues should not be the only deciding factors when implementing HCM.
Attendees at this expert led session will be able to:
-Review general concepts of SAP HCM authorizations; how they are used, how they are different, and some of the critical “gotchas.”
-Learn methods to effectively manage HCM security in a shared environment.
-Determine when you should consider a separate landscape and when you should consider a combined landscape.
-Understand the limitations of implementing on a separate instance and the level of maintenance required.
-See real-life examples of companies that have implemented on separate landscapes, those that have implemented on the same landscape, and why that decision was right for them.
-Take home action-items to follow up on in your environment:
- Details of specific Authorization Objects that require restrictions.
- Techniques to protect data in non-Production systems.
- Review of available Authorization Model monitoring tools that
guarantee against security breaches.
Date: Wednesday, June 16
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Central / 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST
Cost: Free
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How to translate your Organizational Structure into a foreign language
Monday, June 14th, 2010
After creating your organizational structure in your native language, there are a few steps that you need to perform to be able to show the structure in a foreign language.
To start, begin with translation. Have someone in your organization translate all of the objects that are shown in the structure. Organizational units and positions are critical. You may also want to consider translating jobs and any other objects you are using. Be sure to translate both the short and long description so each will be available for reporting purposes.
Once that is complete, run transaction RE_RHTRANS0 or follow menu path Human Resources –> Organizational Management –> Tools –> Infotype –> Translate.
Select your plan version and then the object type that you wish to translate. Enter the target language at the bottom of the screen and execute.
A list of your objects will appear with a blank field below each one for you to enter the translated text. Feel free to cut and paste into these fields. Save your data when finished.
Now you can modify tabs on your organization and staffing screen. You will need to add the names tab in order to display the description in different languages.
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Happy Blogging - New from Symphony!
Monday, April 6th, 2009
Symphony Management Consulting is proud to announce the release of an area dedicated primarily to our clients and other specialists within SAP HCM. Many of our clients have expressed a desire for an area where they can reach out, ask questions and update information. Symphony has responded to this request by creating an SAP HCM blog where our team of HR Experts will respond to questions submitted via our Ask the Experts area.
Our goal is to answer our clients and the SAP community’s questions effectively and to provide you with a constant resource where you can turn to for helpful knowledge online. Our experts will do our best to answer the majority of the questions posted – but don’t forget to provide accurate contact information incase we need to reach out to you to find out more about your question at hand and to give you the best answer or approach to your issue.
In addition, our Tips and Tricks section will be updated with common “GOTCHA’S” so our clients are able to take advantage of quick resolutions to common issues.
Don’t be afraid to ask the question! Remember – no question is stupid, the only stupid questions are the ones that were never asked to begin with.
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EEO Report
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Question
How do you run the EEO Report in SAP? I know we set up positions, can you assist me?
Answer
EEO is actually based on Jobs, not Positions and people. You will first need to set up the EEO/AAP codes in T5U13_b. In order to run the EEO report, utilize the following path Personnel Management –> Administration –> Info System –> Reports –> Administration US –> Compliance or by utilizing transaction SA38 and report name RPSEEOU1.
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