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SAP HCM - A Complete Tutorial

By : Karthik S

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SAP HCM - A Complete Tutorial

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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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. End User Transactions

1. End User Transactions

Daily transactional codes

Standard reports

Creating a folder and moving the T-codes

An overview of SAP standard reports

Summary

2. Recruitment Configuration

2. Recruitment Configuration

Handling vacancies

Advertising vacancies

Integration with personnel administration

Summary

3. SPOCK – the Building Block of OM

3. SPOCK – the Building Block of OM

The concepts of Organization Management

Creating an organizational structure with different interfaces

Integrating Organization Management with Personnel Administration

Summary

4. PA Configuration in Less Than 24 Hours

4. PA Configuration in Less Than 24 Hours

Personnel Administration infotypes

Important infotypes that are mandatory and their configuration steps

Tips and tricks that will be handy while configuring the submodule

Customizing the infotype menu and info groups

Configuring personnel actions

Summary

5. Time Management Configuration – Negative Time

5. Time Management Configuration – Negative Time

Nodes for configuring the Work schedule rule and Absence Quotas

Important nodes and/or customizing tables for the Work schedule rule

Important nodes and/or customizing tables for Absence Quotas

Tips to generate Absence Quotas without any hassles

Summary

6. Payroll Configuration

6. Payroll Configuration

Infotypes mandatory for payroll processing

Control record elucidated

Steps to configure the payroll

Writing a PCR to meet your customer's requirements

Configuring a payslip

Integration with the finance module

Summary

7. Talent Management and Development Configuration

7. Talent Management and Development Configuration

Basic settings – Personnel Development

Integration aspects with other submodules of HCM

Master data for the Personnel Development component

Objective setting and an appraisal's template configuration

Summary

8. Training and Event Management Configuration

8. Training and Event Management Configuration

The basic settings in TEM

Integration aspects in the Training and Event Management module

Configuring a business event preparation/event catalog

Summary

9. Travel Management Configuration

9. Travel Management Configuration

Travel Management – features and functions

Travel Request configuration steps

Configuring Travel Planning

Configuring Travel Expenses

Integration aspects with other application components

Summary

10. Building a Report Using SAP Query Viewer

10. Building a Report Using SAP Query Viewer

Building an ad hoc query using the SQ01 transaction code

Executing a report using an ad hoc query

Transport a query across clients

Develop a report using SAP Query Viewer (SQVI)

Summary

Index

Index

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Tips and tricks that will be handy while configuring the submodule

We will learn the configuration steps for the PA mandatory infotypes. The first thing that is required is customizing of a number range. It's an eight-digit numeric code and is created by navigating to SPRO | Personnel Management | Personnel Administration | Basic Settings or directly via the PA04 T-code.

Recommendation on number range assignment

We will now see the recommendation on number assignment. The following key ideas need to be adhered to:

During the hiring process, if the system generates an employee number, then it is called "internal number assignment". This method is recommended as part of the SAP implementation when a company wants to have uniformity of number assignment with more digits.
A company has a number of third-party systems where employee numbers are maintained and used in lot of interfaced programs. In such cases, it is important and necessary that we maintain the same employee numbers in SAP as well...

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