Steve Bogner is Managing Partner at Insight Consulting Partners and worked with SAP HR/Payroll since 1993. Follow Steve's thoughts on SAP HR technology, process and people, as well as the consulting profession here at the Insight Blog. Steve is also on Twitter at 'SteveBogner'.
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| Welcome to the Insight Blog! | 2009-May-08 | Welcome to my blog! I will be writing about the things that we work on at Insight Consulting Partners - SAP HR, Process & System Optimization, configuration tips, best business practices and all sorts of tips & tricks. Now and then I'll be writing about the consulting profession - a job... |
| Training fills the gaps - but just what is the gap? | 2009-May-09 | If training is supposed to fill-in the gaps of knowledge and skills we have, or to build on our existing base, it seems to me that we need to know first of all what are those gaps? What knowledge- and skills-base are people coming to the class with? |
| Reviewing & auditing business process results | 2009-May-12 |
Are you missing a critical step for improving your business processes? In my experience, most companies do leave out the critical step of reviewing and auditing the results of a business process. Without this evaluation of the results, companies miss out on all sorts of ways they... |
| Parallel payroll posting functionality - RPCIPE01 | 2009-May-15 |
A couple years ago I noticed a new version of the payroll posting program - in addition to RPCIPE00 I noticed RPCIPE01 was now available. This new version of the posting program breaks the posting run into multiple parallel jobs so that the elapsed run time is shortened. That was great news... |
| How to get good at configuring and supporting SAP HR and Payroll | 2009-May-29 |
So you want to learn how to configure SAP HR, Payroll, or Benefits? You want to be able to figure out why the system does certain things, how to troubleshoot it? I get those questions all the time from new consultants and from customers - how can I learn what you know, so I can do what you do?... |
| Do you use the US Payroll Reconciliation Report? | 2009-Jun-12 |
I heard from a company the other day that they were told that they shouldn't use the Payroll Reconciliation Report for US Payroll because it wasn't accurate. They were talking about report RPCPRRU0 (RPCPRRU0_CE if you're on CE), transaction PC00_M10_REC. They said someone from SAP told... |
| Benchmarking - Correlation is not Causality | 2009-Jun-12 |
I was reading some information from SAP and ASUG this week about their benchmarking results, and I was reminded of something my college Statistics professor drilled into us: correlation is not the same as causality. That concept is also mentioned in a very interesting book I'm (slowly) reading:... |
| Getting it right the first time | 2009-Jun-19 |
Installing a new HR system - like SAP HR - takes a lot of work; and it requires consultants with a lot of experience to install it well. That experience will help you design work processes that work well both with the system and for your business. Those processes and the technical... |
| Is SAP's Concurrent Employment right for you? | 2009-Jun-29 |
SAP's Concurrent Employment (CE) functionality has been out for a few years now, and several customers have successfully implemented it. This CE functionality enables you to have multiple 'assignments' per person in the HR system. Think of an assignment as a job or position (not necessarily 'job... |
| Extend SAP 'features' with ABAP code | 2009-Jul-24 |
One of the powerful tools for configuring SAP HR is features – structured decision logic that looks at various attributes of an employee. Features are used to determine all sorts of things in the SAP HR system – which wagetype to use in paying an employee, which benefit plans they... |
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