This training tutorial is designed to help human resources (HR) administrators and executives, IT developers and members of the SAP ecosystem to oversee and utilize SAP HR, not only as a collection of tools but also as a single platform for monitoring, managing and analyzing an organization's human resources. Navigate through the sections of this guide in order to understand the full organizational scope of human resources and get tips for SAP HR planning. Decide whether a business case for SAP HR exists in your organization; plan an SAP HR implementation; manage employees; build in organizational controls; discover powerful tips and tricks for executing SAP HR projects on the ground; prepare yourself for an SAP HR interview, SAP HR certification questions, or an SAP HR test; and kick-start human resources training. Whether you're an HR manager, HR director or SAP developer, this SAP HR training tutorial will add value to your SAP career by walking you through SAP HR modules, addressing SAP HR strategy and tactics alike in order to improve the chances of SAP project success, and paying special attention to the HR technology of SAP. The bottom line is that while the HR module may not define SAP, it is an increasingly popular HR solution.
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There are plenty of HR solutions, and many different kinds of HR software, in the marketplace. SAP is one of many software providers willing to sell you HR technology. As an HR director, you'll almost certainly encounter this ERP company on your list of prospective vendors, which is reason enough to learn more. As a developer, you'll find that SAP skills are hot and that HR is a growing module -- one of the stars of SAP's larger ERP offering. Thus, whether your HR job description is technical or business-oriented, you'll find tools in this training tutorial to help with SAP HR planning.
Understanding HR
HR applications touch many processes and all employees within an organization. Implementing or upgrading to SAP HR is therefore a wide-ranging commitment, one that will make the organization consider and reconsider all of its people-facing policies, rules, and goals in such a way as to ease the transition to SAP-supported business processes, taxonomies and tools. As the HR manager, take a deep dive into the world that awaits you by reading SAP HR books such as HR Personnel Planning and Development Using SAP and mySAP HR: Technical Principles and Programming, which between them will explain not only the strategic scope of an SAP HR project but also the technical details involved. Finally, in order to improve your understanding of the practice of HR in the e-business era, check out the brave new world of e-HR: Human Resources in the Digital Age. We're not in the business of giving out free SAP HR books, but keep your eyes peeled for our posts of chapter excerpts from SAP Press books.
If you want to cut to the chase as far as SAP HR planning is concerned, begin with the SAP HR Solution Map to see what SAP is offering in terms of functionality at the high level, then examine Structures in SAP HR to get an advance peek at what the functionality looks like on a nuts-and-bolts level. If you still need more business context, the mySAP ERP Human Capital Management overview will give it to you.
The business case for SAP HR
Having become more familiar with the e-HR proposition in general and SAP HR in particular, it's time to start thinking about an HR business case. Start getting the numbers and benefits lined up by measuring the value of HR solutions, and don't shy away from examining the weaknesses of SAP HR. SAP is an expensive and enduring commitment, and you need to subject the company to a great deal of diligence throughout the evaluation process. One idea is to specify key functionality and use weighted criteria in picking your human resources software vendor of choice.
Implementing SAP HR
Once, or if, you decide on SAP, it's time to consult an SAP HR implementation guide. If your company is like most, you'll have to tweak the SAP product somewhat, which is why it pays to know about optimizing HR with custom objects.
Even if you're a developer or someone else not closely connected to HR at the project level, obtaining a strategic overview of SAP HR will help you market your skills by speaking the language of HR, not just tech, at your SAP job interview. With an SAP skills shortage in full swing, every little differentiator counts.
The core of SAP HR planning is to translate board-, executive- and regulation-driven goals into policies that touch all employees and govern the processes surrounding the entire employee lifecycle, from recruitment to post-termination record-keeping. That's a vast undertaking, but one that makes more sense if you break it up into less daunting segments. Start by thinking of SAP HR as a set of administrative tools that lets you drive HR policies into the heart of an organization.
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