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SAP HCM
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How does SAP Payroll Control Center improve efficiency?
The SAP SuccessFactors payroll front end can vastly improve efficiency and accuracy. It can also save time -- and your sanity -- by eliminating crunch-time surprises. Here's how. Continue Reading
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What can employees do with the SuccessFactors mobile app?
Self-service SuccessFactors features for employees and managers are numerous, and learning tools, including online course downloading, will run on some Android and iOS devices. Continue Reading
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What data should you migrate from SAP HCM to Employee Central?
Replication goes far if you still need SAP HCM for some things. If migration is inevitable, you must choose what to move, how to move it and what happens to the data left behind. Continue Reading
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How do I get data from the SAP HCM module to Employee Central?
When it comes time to move data from the SAP HCM module to SuccessFactors Employee Central, there are four main options. Here's how they differ. Continue Reading
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How does the TCO of Employee Central Payroll compare?
The higher upfront costs of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll don't seem so bad when you consider the fees charged by competing payroll providers. Continue Reading
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SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll vs. MCPO: Which wins?
Learn how combining Employee Central Payroll with multi-country payroll outsourcing may be the best way to cover smaller workforces across the globe. Continue Reading
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How can SuccessFactors Presentations make talent reviews more dynamic?
SuccessFactors Presentations can merge static PowerPoint slides with dynamic, real-time information from the SuccessFactors talent management system. Here's how to use the Presentations application. Continue Reading
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What are some best practices for working with SuccessFactors support?
Avoid wasting time with SuccessFactors support by communicating the right information about your issue. Here's what support representatives typically need to know. Continue Reading
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What's new in the SAP Talent Hybrid packaged integration?
SAP's Talent Hybrid packaged integration could make qualifications management a smoother process. Here's what you need to know. Continue Reading
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How can companies keep track of SuccessFactors software upgrades?
SuccessFactors releases enhancements on a quarterly and ongoing basis -- here's how to stay on top of important updates and select the features your company needs. Continue Reading
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SAP SuccessFactors admin tasks -- where should you start?
Several administrative and maintenance activities will help prevent problems with a SuccessFactors implementation -- here's how to perform the most common tasks. Continue Reading
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Assigning personnel numbers in SAP HR
An SAP HR users wants to know how to assign a person to two different personnel numbers in SAP HR while generating a single invoice. Continue Reading
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How to generate Time Quotas in SAP HR
SAP HR expert Sheryl Middleton explains how to view data in quota overview tables after running Time Evaluation in SAP HR. Continue Reading
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Calculating salary grades in SAP HR
An SAP HR user wants to know if there a way to automatically calculate an allowance in SAP HR that is based on the basic salary of the next higher grade of one's salary. Continue Reading
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Using SAP standard reports to track changes in SAP HR
A SearchSAP.com reader is looking for a standard report that can track changes made to the hierarchy of SAP HR with SAP transaction code PPOME. Continue Reading
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How to configure an SAP HR system using the SAP PA40 code
An SAP HR user is looking to hire an employee and wants to know how to configure the SAP HR system. Learn about SAP the PA40 transaction code, and how it executes the hiring action. Continue Reading
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Unable to run simulation of SAP HR payroll because of employee absence issues
An SAP administrator is having problems running a simulation of the payroll function in SAP HR. Get information on /841-paid vacation, which deals with employee absences and get help with SAP .HR and payroll problems. Continue Reading
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How to limit quota deduction amounts in SAP HR
Find out how to set deduction amounts on a quota record in SAP HR, and why there may be opportunity to add a limit at data entry when using Employee Self-Service (ESS). Continue Reading
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Configuring SAP HR Payroll settings for retroactive accounting
Find out where to locate retroactive accounting settings in SAP HR Payroll. Continue Reading
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Using audit report to track changes to employee data in SAP HR
Find out how to track changes to employee data using an audit report in SAP HR, and learn how to configure the audit report to pick up changes to the data retroactively. Continue Reading
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PD profiles and SD profiles
What are PD profiles and SD profiles? What do they do? Continue Reading
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Display the subtype text for an infotype
I am making an HR report in ABAP wherein I need to display the subtype texts for infotype 0045. How do I find the table where I can get this text field? Continue Reading
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Updating infotype IT0008, not getting 'Annual Salary Currency' as default
I am facing a problem while updating IT0008. I am not getting "Annual Salary Currency" as a default. I maintained all possible tables, such as T500c and V_T510F_B. Could you please tell me where went wrong? Continue Reading
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Maintaining a proficiency level scale
I am maintaining a proficiency level scale ranging from a 1 to 4 rating against a qualification in Personnel development. I want to be able to pull this proficiency level rating on the smart form of an appraisal template through the TEM module. When... Continue Reading
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Using dynamic actions in personnel administration
How do I use dynamic actions in personnel administration? Do we need to create a program for that? Continue Reading
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Retroactive accounting period differences
What is the difference between "earliest Retroactive accounting period" and "Retroactive accounting date"? Continue Reading
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The difference between master data and transactional data
The difference between master data and transactional data Continue Reading
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What is a wage type group?
What use do wage type groups have? What are some examples of wage type groups? Continue Reading
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What are infotype attributes?
What are infotype attributes? Read a brief explanation with examples. Continue Reading
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Maintaining the chart of accounts with separate server installations
Does the chart of accounts have to be maintained separately if SAP HR and FI are installed on separate servers? Expert Roger Cerini explains how Application Linking Enable (ALE) can solve the problem. Continue Reading
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QUOMO feature
The QUOMO feature is used in SAP time management, explains expert Roger Cerini. Continue Reading
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Is it possible to perform a mass deletion of a particular transaction from all users?
In this expert response, discover ways to obstruct all users from access to a particular transaction. Continue Reading
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Definition for an end-to-end implementation
Discover what an "end-to-end implementation" means, and what it really entails from mySAP HR expert Brian Stewart. Continue Reading
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Using CATS for time entry and approval for managers and subordinates
Using CATS for time entry and approval for managers and subordinates? SAP HR expert Brian Stewart advises a user having difficulty with this. Continue Reading
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What is retroactive accounting in SAP HR payroll?
Wondering about retroactive accounting in SAP HR payroll? HR expert Brian Stewart provides the scoop. Continue Reading
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SAP HR infotypes and configuration tables: Features and uses
Learn about the infotypes and configuration tables in SAP's HR module. Continue Reading
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Recording half days as sick days in SAP
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Can we encrypt a file before sending it to a bank?
The DME is extracted from SAP into a text file. While there is a hash total, it is possible to modify the text file and recreate the hash total. Since this file is sent to the financial institution for disbursement, we would like to encrypt the file... Continue Reading
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Does SAP support scrambling data for testing?
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What is mercator?
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How to display the text values of HR Infotype fields
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How do I make a screen active in transaction PPOME in HR as a new TAB?
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How to download HR and Payroll data from SAP to a flat file
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What are the most important skills required in SAP HR?
I am right now learning SAP HR (technical), what are the most important skills/tasks required to be successful in this field or on this job? Continue Reading
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How to start a design interface for SAP HR
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How to generate payroll periods
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Weaknesses of SAP HR
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Calculating daily pay rates in SAP
Can I calculate daily pay rates in SAP? What functionality exists with contract employees? Continue Reading
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Processing garnishments through SAP payroll
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Best practices for a full SAP HR implementation
I'm new in the SAP environment. Could you point me to a best practices guideline for a full SAP HR implementation? I'm looking for the do's and dont's of SAP HR and how the modules connect. Continue Reading
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Mapping wage types to symbolic accounts and g/l numbers
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Entering multiple HR actions on the same day
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Steps for a smooth middle-of-the-year go-live
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Performance management in the HR module
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Example of a standard headcount SAP report
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ABAP vs. HR ABAP
I hear that HR ABAP development is different that ABAP development in the other modules. Is that true and how much of a learning curve is there? Continue Reading
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Bi-weekly work scheduling
Is there a way to set up a bi-weekly work schedule rule? Everything appears to be based on daily, weekly & monthly time periods. We have a new group of employees who work four 12-hour shifts one week a three 12-hour shifts the next week, for a ... Continue Reading
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Pulling reports with cost center and position/vacancy data
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Employee Self Service vs. mySAP HR
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CATS module vs. HR module
Currently we work in 4.0B and we'll soon upgrade to 4.6C. Someone keeps telling me that CATS (Cross-Application Time Sheet) is absolutely independent of HR, so there is no need for any customizing, setup, master data or use of HR in order to be able... Continue Reading