SAP Personnel Management provides the right tools for your human resource department do to the daily administration of personnel and all associated data. From Best Business Practices to Workflow, Employee Self-Service and Manager’s Desktop, SAP’s global, state-of-the-art functions provide your organization with a flexible, high-performance basis on which to achieve the strategic objectives of your enterprise, and supply information to the people who need it. SAP Personnel Management is a total complete solution for your Human Resource Management requirements.
In Summary, SAP Personnel Management supports the following areas within Human Resource Management:
- Recruitment
With this recruitment component, you can define a procedure to govern the recruitment procedure that suits the needs of your enterprise. You can distribute tasks and responsibilities to different people involved in the recruitment process. Recruitment supports you in dividing and assigning administrative and decision-making task areas. Many tasks can be processed via mass processing.
The Recruitment component allows you to automate many processes via dynamic personnel actions. For example, when you first enter applicant data, the system creates a confirmation of receipt in the form of an applicant activity and a letter confirming receipt of application.
This component has all the functions you need for working through the entire recruitment procedure, from creating applicant data to filling vacant positions.
- Personnel Administration
You can manage all modern personnel administration tasks with this application component. The Personnel Administration relieves you from the daily administrative routine activities which are costly and time consuming, whilst simultaneously supporting you in demanding planning activities.
Another advantage of this application component - especially for international corporations - is the various country specific versions which are created exactly in accordance with the respective country specific features. As a result of the country specific versions, you can set up the Personnel Administration as a standard personnel administration system in different countries respectively.
Using this component, you can enter and process employee related data within your company. Personnel Administration automatically checks all data as it is entered to ensure that it is plausible. All employee related data is logged with the exact date. Data remains transparent in your time progression at all times and creates the basis for sound personnel decisions.
- Benefits
The Benefits component offers you a comprehensive method of administering employee benefits. Benefits encompasses the key concepts and processes you need to manage extensive and highly individual benefits packages for your employees.
- Human Resource Information Systems
The Human Resources Information System component provides you with a broad range of reporting functions for all areas of Personnel Management. In addition, it lets you define your own reports efficiently and quickly.
The component contains three reporting and query components: HRIS (Human Resources Information System), the Report Tree, and the Ad Hoc Query. Each of these tools offers special functions to meet specific reporting requirements. HRIS, for example, gives you quick access to a wide variety of reports, while the Ad Hoc Query provides reporting at a more detailed level.
- Personnel Development
You can use the Personnel Development component to maximize employees’ utility within your company. You can plan and implement specific personnel and training measures and thus promote your employees’ professional development. You can also ensure that staff qualification requirements are met and planned. By taking into account employees’ preferences and suitability, you can increase job satisfaction. Personnel development sets out to ensure that all of the employees in all of the functional areas in your company are qualified to the standards required at present, and will remain so in the future. This is achieved by developing qualification potentials.
- Organizational Management
The component Organizational Plan allows your company to fully display and process its current organizational and reporting structures as well as to plan changes relevant to personnel, in the context of reengineering, for example. You can display and process organizational structures hierarchically or as a matrix.
The design of Organizational Management allows you to display organizational units, positions and their holders and tasks in an organizational plan and to process them according to your requirements.
This gives you an overview of the current status of your organizational and reporting structures and enables you to report on historical data at any time. In addition, you can plan and model future scenarios.
- Compensation Management
The Compensation Management component enables you to differentiate between your remuneration strategies and those of your competitors while still allowing flexibility, control and cost effectiveness. It provides a toolset for strategic remuneration planning that reflects your organization culture and pay strategies, and it empowers line managers within a framework of flexible budget control.
SAP Compensation Management allows you to control bottom-line expenditures and offer competitive and motivating remuneration, be it fixed pay, variable pay, stock options, merit increases, or promotion – in other words, total compensation.
- HR Funds and Position Management
The HR Funds and Position Management gives you a detailed view of your personnel expenditure (personnel budget), and links this to the staff and positions in your organization.
This component allows you to finance and perform planning for persons and positions efficiently. One of the advantages of this is that you can use full-time equivalents (FTEs) to budget personnel expenditures.
- Employee Self-Service
Employee Self-Service enables your employees to create, change and view their data in your company intranet. By allowing your employees access to their data, you streamline human resources processes and enable administrative staff to concentrate on more strategic tasks.
To access their data in the company intranet, your employees must have an SAP user. The Employee Self-Service component provides the tools for you to assign users to employees. You can create new users, or use existing ones.
- HR Manager's Desktop
SAP’s Manager’s Desktop meets the daily requirements of the manager and supports him or her in his or her administrative, organizational and strategic tasks. In order to complete his or her tasks successfully, the manager needs information from different areas of the company, Human Resources or Accounting, for example.
Manger’s Desktop helps the manager to make personnel decisions and plan strategically as the personnel data of directly or indirectly subordinate employees and the evaluation of this data is easily accessible.
- Training and Event Management
The R/3 Training and Event Management component has a wide range of powerful, user- friendly functions to enable you to plan and manage all kinds of business events from training events to conventions simply and efficiently.
This component is an integral part of SAP HR and has interfaces to all of the relevant R/3 application module, making it a reliable basis for extending and updating your employees' skills and knowledge.
- Travel Management
This component contains all the functions necessary for processing business trips from the travel request and approval to posting the travel expenses after the trip has taken place.
The integration of this component with Financial Accounting (FI), Controlling (CO) and HR Payroll Accounting ensures that posting, taxation and payment of travel expenses are dealt with correctly.
Payment of travel expenses can be carried out via data carrier.
