by David Wisor, SAP HR, Time, and Payroll Analyst, Mannington Mills, Inc.
HR Expert - Volume 10 (2012), Update 2

Understand the concerns and considerations with having one employee support all of your HCM configuration, then follow the process used by a one-man tech team to quickly and efficiently implement changes to the SAP system.

by Raghavendran Parthasarathy, AMS Solution Manager, IBM India
HR Expert - Volume 10 (2012), Update 2

Learn how to enable cost assignment, activity allocation, and external services tools in time management infotypes. This allows you to address your organization’s needs for different types of cost allocation in time management infotypes and different types of payroll posting requirements.

by Vamsi Mohan, SAP HR Consultant, Accenture
HR Expert - Volume 10 (2012), Update 1

Using the SAP-provided user exit EXIT_SAPLPTWS_001, you can modify generated work schedules to configure the second Saturday of the month as a day off, which otherwise is not possible through configuration.

by Daniil Serebrennikov, Managing Partner, VTMSoft LLC
HR Expert - Volume 9 (2011), Update 8

Although SAP’s time evaluation module is extremely flexible and powerful, it is often over-integrated due to the unpredictable variety of business rules and contracts. This makes maintenance, configuration, and support unnecessarily complicated. Learn these tips and tricks to overcome the challenges and configuration problems that are presented in many SAP time evaluation implementations.

by Vamsi Mohan, SAP ERP HCM Consultant, Accenture
HR Expert - Volume 9 (2011), Update 4

Learn how to create work schedule variants and selection rules and avoid the implementation of more complex user exits.

by Jennifer Adams, Principal Consultant, AspireHR
HR Expert - Volume 9 (2011), Update 2

The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Workbench assists employers in administering the complex guidelines for determining eligibility and absence management. Understand the components that make up the FMLA Workbench and how each section of the workbench functions.

by Srinivas Krishna Mandgi, Business & IT Consultant, Freelancer
HR Expert - Volume 9 (2011), Update 1

Learn how to configure SAP ERP HCM Time Management and write personnel calculation rules and time schemas to automatically create a separate carry forward absence quota infotype (2006). The absence quota infotype allows you to carry forward absence quota balances every year without making any additional configuration changes or maintaining the date specifications infotype (0041), drastically reducing HR administration and maintenance costs.

by Venkat Dasika, SAP HR Payroll/Time Consultant, City of Houston
HR Expert - Volume 9 (2011), Update 1

SAP ERP HCM configuration tables can be big and it is difficult to get a list of the fields you are looking for. Here are two methods to filter the desired fields in any configuration table regardless of the submodule you are using.

by Jennifer Adams, Principal Consultant, AspireHR
HR Expert - Volume 8 (2010), Update 9

Many organizations allow their HR department to provide additional leave entitlement for potential new hires as part of a negotiated employment contract. In most cases, the additional leave entitlement is reduced as the employee’s seniority increases and, once the combined level is reached, is dropped altogether. This may also occur during an acquisition if the company acquired has more generous entitlement plans than the acquiring company. The employees are not “grandfathered” into their old plans, but are allowed to keep the additional leave entitlement. Once their seniority increases and reaches the level that entitles them to the current entitlement value in the acquiring company’s existing plan, they then revert to the acquiring company’s standard leave plans and seniority levels. You can manage this process within standard configuration and rules in the Time Evaluation schema and prevent the manual calculations and adjustment to the quota balances that you would otherwise have to complete annually.

by Harold Hollero, Sr. HR Consultant, AspireHR
HR Expert - Volume 8 (2010), Update 7

Use work schedule variants to make your work schedule rule more flexible by specifying different rules for different daily work schedules. Learn how to identify the holiday class of a public holiday, create a daily work schedule, add a daily work schedule variant, create work schedule variant rules, and define period work schedules and work schedule rules.