HR, Project Management, Implementations, Recruitment, Workflow, Reporting, Payroll, Time Management, Process Improvement

SAP Workflow ensures " the right work is brought in the right sequence at the right time to the right people". It is a tool designed to facilitate and automate business processes that require tasks to be performed by people. Ideal for casual or non-SAP users, since all the work items can be performed outside of SAP by simply responding to an email, SAP workflow can be linked to Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes. Each step of a business transaction can be easily monitored and processes are completed from the beginning to the end. Workflow allows process owners to keep an eye on deadlines, provides statistics on the length of time to complete work processes, determine the workload with regard to individual employees and save processing time.

When implementing the Training & Events module on a global scale across different countries, there are a number of factors to consider. System security, data conversions, the event catalog structure, billing and correspondence are all areas affected when the module is being rolled in different countries. While there is not one given strategy, organizations have to make certain decisions and will face a number of challenges. This article takes a closer look at these challenges and how to deal with them.

OVERVIEW You may think that various countries are very different in how they are paid and maintained. One of our customers studied their operations and found that 80% of their global payroll processes were the same – only 20% were unique to a specific country. By standardizing the configuration & coding among countries you achieve at least three significant benefits: simplify and reduce support costs, leverage your hardware investment, and have the opportunity to get a global view of your employee data Even if your company may have only one country-payroll now, it is good to plan and configure as though you may add more in the future. In this increasingly global business environment, and given SAP’s global HR capabilities, it is not unlikely that you will have a new country payroll in the future. Setting up the system to enable that possibility is much easier to do before go-live than it is after. There are dozens of items to pay attention to when approaching an SAP HR project with a global mindset. However, the are four general areas to pay attention to: CODING SCHEMES SAP HR has many areas where employees are grouped into categories so that they can be processed or report later on – employee groups & subgroups, payroll areas for example. ‘Actions’ are also used to enforce standard processes for maintaining employee data.