Längere krankheitsbedingte Abwesenheitszeiträume werden häufig mit offenem Endedatum (31.12.9999) eingegeben.So muss der Satz nur einmal nach der Rückkehr des Mitarbeiters angepaßt und nicht zusätzlich mehrere Male während der Dauer der Abwesenheit verlängert werden. Aber wenn nach der Rückkehr das Ende des relevanten Abwesenheitszeitraums geändert wird, hat das zur Folge, dass eine Rückrechnung bis zum Beginn...Read More

For objects in OM (as indeed for other PD-modules like Training and Events Management, Qualifications, etc.) you can easily capture texts in several languages. But you need to be aware of the concepts behind it, most notably, when you design custom developments for OM in a multi-lingual environmentRead More

Standard Authorisations in SAP HCM offer quite a few options with ‘normal’ authorisation objects, as well as structural, and context sensitive authorisations. However, with SAP HCM ever more widely used across the organisation covering ever more processes, most customers get to a point, where they feel they need to add some custom coding to make...Read More

The international SAP HCM Insights Team, including the director of iProCon UK, published a new Podcast session. The experts discuss the challenges customers are facing, when they need to make massive changes to existing systems, comprising amongst other topicsRead More

Many users are not aware of this issue, although it’s been around for some time: Deriving a dependant cost item from a direct cost item in an earlier period doesn’t work, if the cost object (e.g. employee) has changed its org unit since that period.This is due to the fundamental design of the planning run,...Read More

In der jüngeren Vergangenheit gab es bei den SV-Prüfungen immer wieder die Forderung, dass Umlagen (U1 + U2) nach dem Aufwendungsausgleichsgesetz (AAG) auch aus einmalig gezahltem Entgelt zu berechnen sind, wenn es sich hierbei um Überstundenabgeltungen oder ähnlichen Entgeltbestandteilen handelte.Read More

SAVE the DATE: Meet us at the SAP Insider Conference HR2013 Europe in Amsterdam As in previous years, iProCon will be contributing to the SAP Insider HR conference HR2013 Europe. Sven Ringling, director of iProCon Ltd. in London, will present 4 sessions at the Amsterdam event (June 11.-13. 2013) covering technical as well as strategic...Read More

During the last 17 years (bloody hell, I’m really getting old) I’ve seen my fair share of SAP HR projects. Large and small, private and public sector, implementations, roll-outs, optimisations, … you name it. There is one thing, most of them had in common: project owners struggle to demonstrate how the project contributes to the...Read More

Many SAP HR users in the UK are about to run their first RTI submission this week or next. To help you avoiding some of the pitfalls, here are a few points we learned from customers, who went life in the first half of April:Read More

With the February 2013 support package SAP provided the new infotype 3346 for the UK to record the sexual orientation of an employee. This information may be required to comply with the 2010 Equality act. Unsuspecting UK customers experienced problems in payroll and HR master data amongst other processes after implementing the support package.Read More