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SAP HCM - A Complete Tutorial

By : Karthik S
Book Image

SAP HCM - A Complete Tutorial

By: Karthik S

Overview of this book

This book is a simple tutorial guide with practical issues and their solutions, aimed at enabling readers to implement the various features of the SAP HCM module. If you are familiar with ERP products, and would like to leverage knowledge and fine-tune your configuration skills, then this book is for you. This book is aimed at readers who want to learn about SAP HCM and its most popular functionalities.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Index

The concepts of Organization Management

The building blocks of OM are SPOCK. They are described as follows:

  • S: This stands for Position (for example, HR Manager, Marketing Director, and so on)
  • P: This stands for Person
  • O: This stands for Organizational unit (also known as Org unit; it represents the department in a company)
  • C: This stands for Job (for example, manager, director, and so on)
  • K: This stands for Cost Center

Note

Note that both K and P are external object types. The K object type, Cost Center, is maintained in the FI/CO module, and the P object type, Person, is maintained in the PA submodule. When we say external, it is simply not created in the OM submodule.

SAP has delivered multiple interfaces to design an organizational structure, and we will understand each of them separately.

Elucidating an organizational structure

An organizational structure is a functional structure. It simply represents the departmental hierarchy in a company. It identifies each Job, Position, its functions...