Management of Global Employees: Transfer and Repatriation

This Business Scenario Map shows how a corporate division at a host country (host corporate division) and the corporate division at the home country (home corporate division) prepare a global assignment and transfer an employee. Both corporate divisions also prepare and manage the employees repatriation at the end of the assignment using one single point of information and reducing communication time and costs.

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Business Benefits

One single point of information for all involved parties

Reduced communication time and costs

Increased transparency along the processes

Employee

Host Corporate Division

Home Corporate Division

Negotiates assignment

Calculate costs of global assignment

Agree terms of assignment

Prepare employee transfer

Manage employee transfer

Manage employee repatriation

Approve employee transfer

Manage employee transfer

Prepare employee repatriation

Manage employee repatriation

Business Benefits

Opportunity to create different costs scenarios based on company‘s transfer policies

Supports better negotiation process through efficient information exchange

Automatic transfer of employee‘s information from one country to the other

Reduced transactions costs (savings potential through workflow)


Management of Global Employees: Transfer and Repatriation SAP Human Resources (SAP HR) provides a solution for the Management of Global Employees that supports a global enterprise along all its processes involved in supporting and managing an employee to work abroad. Two of these processes are the transfer and repatriation. A business need in a global enterprise leads to a global assignment. Once a suitable candidate has been found, the host corporate division determines the personnel costs for the global assignment. In addition, the host corporate division determines the cost of living in the corresponding country and calculates the tax. The host corporate division requires the approval of the employees current home corporate division to continue with the global assignment. After maintaining the required data and calculating the allowances, an offer is created and presented to the employee. The employee can discuss the offer with the host corporate division and rework it until both parties agree on the terms of the global assignment. As preparation for the global assignment, the host and home corporate divisions manage the planned activities for the transfer (relocation, request for passport, apply for work permit or visa, and so on) and complete them as required. When the begin date of the assignment approaches and the employee has accepted the offer, both corporate divisions proceed to transfer the employee. The home corporate division sets a time-based delimitation on the employees master data. The host corporate division creates additional master data for the employee based on the global assignments final offer. Shortly before the end of the assignment, a new assignment for the global employee needs to be defined. The home corporate division manages the related planned activities for the employees repatriation and completes them accordingly. Similarly to the transfer for the repatriation process both corporate divisions maintain the employees master data. The host corporate division sets a time-based delimitation on the employees master data. The home corporate division updates the employees master data, accordingly. Using a single point of information for all involved parties guarantees increased transparency in the processes. It also helps to obtain a reduction in the communication time and transactions costs. Additionally, with SAP HR solution for the Management of Global Employees the transfer of employees information from one country to the other is automatic and supports an efficient information exchange among all involved parties.