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The Power of Benchmarking

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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Advanced Vacation Payout

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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Can you automate OM via Workflow?

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.

Tags: ABAP, New Hires, OM, PA, PLOG ORGA, PLOGI, T77S0, Workflow

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