Workforce Process Management

Main Process

 

Offers advanced features for Employee Administration, e.g., Transfers or Employee Status Change. Provides the central repository for employee data in SAP ERP HCM; data stored here is used throughout SAP ERP HCM. Integrates the information in Personnel Administration fully with other SAP business applications, especially Financials and Logistics.

Lets users easily manage and communicate information about organizational structures and policy. Provides tools for constructing and maintaining an accurate model of the organization and gives users unmatched insight into the staff and structural environment of the company. Uses the Organizational Management capabilities of SAP ERP HCM to drive workflow and support activities in personnel cost planning, compensation management, employee development and recruitment, SAP CRM, and SAP SEM. Delivers Organizational Development capabilities including Organizational Planning & Simulation, Organizational Development, Activity Analysis, and Job Analysis. Provides the ability to simulate, analyze, and experiment with proposed organizational changes and previous organizational models on a centralized or decentralized basis.

Duet organization management enables employees and managers to use the Microsoft Outlook Contacts interface to access to up-to-date human resource information such as compensation, organizational structure, open positions and training opportunities. Access to specific information is managed and controlled to by the SAP standard security and authentication privileges. Employees can access their own human resource records from the SAP ERP application such as current address, job position information and payroll data.

Managers can view their team members’ information in greater detail, such as their compensation, letters of recommendation and resumes. Managers can also use Duet’s analytics capabilities and contextual information, allowing them to drill into corporate human resource information such as average enterprise-wide compensation by job title.

Delivers capabilities necessary for managing international transfers and assignments.  Included are global reporting and analytics, improving and aligning negotiation processes for international assignments, and supporting geographically dispersed users with up to the minute information.

Provides flexible, powerful, and accessible benefits administration, supported by a full range of self services to enable employees to more effectively manage their own benefits options.  Enables organizations to define and administer every type of benefit plan, from HMO to dental to 401(k) to flexible spending accounts.  Also included are capabilities to accumulate historical earnings and hours as well as service calculation for defined benefit plans.   Allows benefits professionals to efficiently administer their company's benefit programs. Lets organizations easily tailor their benefit offerings to each employee or employee group using the Benefits Administration capabilities of SAP ERP HCM.

Optimizes processes for planning, managing, and evaluating the working times and activities of internal and external employees via the Time Management capabilities of SAP ERP HCM. Provides intuitive, user-oriented interfaces that support centralized or decentralized time management. Lets even inexperienced time administrators can easily execute all the functions they require for managing the time data of various employee groups, all on one screen with an optimized user interface. Uses self-service applications, from customary time recording subsystems to mobile computing technology, to enter leave data, record working times to be used in business processes in Controlling and Logistics, and display key leave information. Handles all working-time provisions determined by companies themselves, by standard agreements, or required by law. Enables users to implement modern concepts such as working-time accounts. Please note that the mobile part of this capability are not included in the SAP ERP shipment.

Duet lets information workers use the Outlook calendar to report time which is recorded in the SAP ERP application, streamlining time entry while ensuring time-reporting compliance. Using Duet, service corporations, departments or any organizations where time and project accounting is important can benefit from personal calendars integrated with enterprise project, program management and accounting systems. Duet allows end users who track time in Outlook to also get a detailed overview and analytics on how they have allocated their time including their current time balance, weekly allocation and total time assigned per project code. Using Duet, employees can also add and process leave requests as calendar items that comply with the approval guidelines and enterprise-defined processes. Duet gives the enterprise an array of leave types to choose from, each reflecting the same definitions that exist in the human resource policies implemented in the SAP ERP application. All leave parameters, such as vacation allowances or sick days, can be configured to align with a company’s individual policy.

HCM Processes & Forms automate paper-intensive and time-consuming employee-related processes such as hiring, termination, organizational reassignment, and maternity leave.   Interactive Forms by Adobe accelerate data entry and flexible workflow templates enable organizations to handle routine workforce processes quickly. The application is very flexible and empowers organizations to define standardized processes. All involved business roles such as affected employees, affected managers and HR professionals can be directly involved in the process. Regardless, if you implement an HR shared service delivery model with SAP self-services or even include an HR shared service center, Interactive Forms by Adobe build a strong automation layer for your workforce processes.