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8 months ago ::
Oct 14, 2011 - 9:44AM
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Welcome to today's forum:
Link pay to performance with Enterprise Compensation Management
and SAP ERP HCM:
Exclusive Q&A with HR expert Jeremy Masters Linking pay to performance is not just a powerful motivational tool, it is a critical part of effective talent management, business strategy, and budgeting. Participate in a Q&A on ECM and ask your technical questions about managing performance-based pay and incentive programs with SAP solutions in an exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Masters, today, October 25th, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. EDT, here in Insider Learning Network’s HR Forum. To post a question, log in and select the “Post Reply” button at the bottom of the page. Then join the discussion to see the answer to your question today from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. EDT. If you have not yet registered for today's Q&A, you can still sign up to get an exclusive, free download of Chapter 4 “Compensation Budgeting” from the SAP PRESS book Enterprise Compensation Management with SAP ERP HCM, by Jeremy Masters and Christos Kotsakis.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 18, 2011 - 5:27PM
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Do you have any tips on an easy procedure to re-use a test review / review item in the development and/or QA clients? Once the planning has been approved and activated, it is very cumbersome to reset everything - we have a procedure where we delete the budget structure, delete the new PA0008s that were built using an LSMW, delete the activated IT759s by running a program in debug so that we can tweak it to allow the deletion, and then delete the employee history table. There has to be a better way?
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8 months ago ::
Oct 19, 2011 - 5:15PM
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Hi Jeremy, Can you please explain how linking pay to performance tool works from business and budgeting perspective? Thanks Jacob Asirvatham
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7 months ago ::
Oct 25, 2011 - 5:43AM
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Hi Jeremy, First of thank you for some great lectures at HR2010 in Barcelona last fall :) I have a question we've been having some issues with and hope there's a solution for and that's how to make budgets for hourly employees? Thank you and all the best
Stine
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7 months ago ::
Oct 25, 2011 - 12:21PM
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Hi Jeremy, I have 3 questions :
- Is there any way to influence how the budget is distributed/allocated or consumed by employees ? Currently, the budget is allocated to employees are based on IT1 staffing information, but in our context, we need to consider IT27 (cost distribution) instead. Example, a budget of $100K is created for an org unit A, responsible for WBS1 and $100K for org unit B, responsible for WBS2.. Assume that an employee is co-funded by WBS1 50% and WBS2 50% and the employee is awarded a merit increment of $1000. The budget in this context should be reduced by $500 each from the 2 org units, A and B. Is there any way to change or influence this ?
- Is it any provision possible to do compensation planning prior to completion of an appraisal for employees or in parallel with the appraisal (we're using flexible performance management) ? Example, part appraiser 1 submits the appraisal and compensation recommendation together to the next level or part appraiser and so on for approval.
- What can we expect to see new improvements for ECM in EHP 6 ?
Thank you. Regards Kir Chern
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7 months ago ::
Oct 25, 2011 - 12:30PM
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Welcome to today’s forum! In this one-hour forum, we invite you to ask your questions about Compensation Management to SAP ERP HCM expert Jeremy Masters of Worklogix. Jeremy is an HR Expert advisor and author, and featured HR 2012 conference speaker, and will be answering your questions in the forum today. Thanks, Jeremy, for joining us today! To post your questions for Jeremy, log in to Insider Learning Network and click the "Post Reply" button at the bottom to enter your questions. Jeremy will post his answers directly in the Forum thread. I see there are some questions already posted in the forum, so Jeremy will be starting in on those right away.
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7 months ago ::
Oct 25, 2011 - 12:30PM
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Jeremy, We have a custom solution to link pay to performance. We have a custom IT which we have deployed as an WDA application for managers to rate their employees and we then recommend merit and bonus based on these ratings on the MSS compensation planning screen. We would like to go with the standard solution one day. Is it possible with ESS/MSS BP of 1.0? What would you recommend? We have a lot of custom changes in WDJ for MSS~ECM in NWDS and from what I hear upgrading the BP and accomodating these changes would be a pain?
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7 months ago ::
Oct 25, 2011 - 12:36PM
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Hi Jeremy,
First of thank you for some great lectures at HR2010 in Barcelona last fall :)
I have a question we've been having some issues with and hope there's a solution
for and that's how to make budgets for hourly employees?
Thank you and all the best
Stine
Hello Stine, First - thanks for the comments on Barcelona. It was a fun time. With respect to your hourly employee qestion: it depends on how managers will plan for these employees. You first need to know if planning will be done on an annualized or hourly basis. Then, via the new Employee BAdI (there is a new one HRECM00_BDG_EE) you can perform the calculations using the custom option for bottom up budgeting. This BAdI is only available with Enhancement Pack 5! Planning and budget for hourly employees should obviously be treated in the same fashion and this BAdI (in combination with your comp review item configuration) will do the trick!
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7 months ago ::
Oct 25, 2011 - 12:37PM
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Hi Jeremy, thank you for this opportunity. It is my understanding that with EhPk5, there is dynamic reallocation of budget, but that this is only supported at the employee level. Meaning if an employee moves from one manager/org to another, the budget "moves" to the new chief of the organization unit. Can you confirm that if an entire org unit moves from one chief to another, that we would need to write custom code/badi since this type of movement is not supported "out of the box" via Ehpk5?
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7 months ago ::
Oct 25, 2011 - 12:40PM
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Jeremy,
We have a custom solution to link pay to performance. We have a custom IT which we have deployed as an WDA application for managers to rate their employees and we then recommend merit and bonus based on these ratings on the MSS compensation planning screen. We would like to go with the standard solution one day. Is it possible with ESS/MSS BP of 1.0? What would you recommend? We have a lot of custom changes in WDJ for MSS~ECM in NWDS and from what I hear upgrading the BP and accomodating these changes would be a pain?
Hi Santosh, You are not alone - many customers have already come up with creative solutions for paying for performance. First let me qualify :o) and say , each customer's requirement is unique so take this advice with a grain of salt. My best advice for you (not knowing your functionality and business process) is to wait for EhP5 functionality. In Ehp5, there is a new UI based on Web Dynpro ABAP technology. You maybe be able to leverage some of your custom business logic (as needed) to the standard application. Using the Enhancement framework within Web Dynpro ABAP, it's fairly easy (with the right resources  ) to make changes to the screens and navigation elements (buttons, floor plan manager, labels, etc.). Hope that helps.
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