SAP HCM TRAINING

SAP HR HCM


SAP HR HCM BY Mr.D N RAO, certified and real-time consultant 8 years Sap exp.,
Duration: 2.5 months
Fee: 12000 /- classrooms: 25000/- online training

1. Introduction on ERP and SAP:

 Introduction to ERP & SAP.
 Overview on SAP HR Sub modules
 Introduction to Project Implementation with ASAP methodology & Road map
 System Landscape – 3tier Architecture & Sand Box
 New Platforms of SAP Architecture.
 Need of Technical/Administration/Portal Consultants in Functional Environment
 Importance of Core and Functional teams in Project implementation
 Introduction to Portal based Modules in SAP HCM and HR operations.
 SAP System Navigation.

2. Structures in SAP HCM :
 Enterprise Structure - Definition and Assignment
• Company
• Company code
• Personnel Area
• Personnel Sub area
 Personnel Structure – Definition and Assignment
• Employee group
• Employee sub group
• Payroll area and Control Record (with Retroactive Accounting)
 Pay scale structure
• Pay scale type
• Pay scale area
• Pay scale group
• Pay scale level
 Organizational Structure and Organizational Plan

3. Personnel Administration:

 Info types, Sub types and Time Constraints
 Info types ranges in SAP HCM.
 Features in SAP HCM – Importance and various feature configurations according to requirement.
 Number Ranges for Employee personnel numbers – Internal & External with feature setup.
 Customizing user procedures:
• Configuration of Personnel actions - Info group – Action menu
 Hiring
 Promotion
 Transfer
 Organizational re-assignment
 Termination

• Dynamic actions – Use, Configuration with Business requirements.
• Info type menus
• Additional Action – activation and its use
 Customizing user interfaces:
• Info type screen modifications
• Info type Header modifications
 Administrator group & defaulting through feature.
 Discussions on Business requirements in OM & PA modules in combine for easy understanding of Real time Business scenarios.
 Integration settings with OM and PA
 Master Data – definition and its use in SAP HCM
 Financial Accounting Global Settings
• Global Parameters
• Fiscal Year variants
• Posting Periods
 Employee attributes


4. Organizational Management:

 Organizational Management Introduction
 Objects
 Relationships
• Structure of Relationships
• Syntax of relationship
 Methods of creating Org. structure
• Simple maintenance
• Expert Mode
• Organizational and staffing.
• Menu guided, Open and Action guided methods.
 Editing of Objects and Relationships
 Validity period
 Info type in OM
 Plan version – Definition and setting of new plan versions.
 Object Number ranges.
 Evaluation path.


5. Time Management:

 Introduction to Time Management – Time management process in HR domain and SAP HCM Time management differentiation - a discussion.
 Positive and Negative Time recording – With Business process discussion
 Public holidays - Configuration of different types of Holidays.
 Holiday calendar with Business scenarios – Applicability with Enterprise structure.
 Factory calendar in HCM perspective.
 Grouping - Personnel sub area & Employee sub group Groupings in Time Management


 Work schedules
• Break schedules
• Daily work schedules (With Variants – with business scenarios)
• Period work schedules
 Day types and Day type selection rules.
 ESG, Holiday calendar assignment for PSA.
 Work schedule rules.
 Time data recording and administration
 Introduction to Absences and Attendance
 Absences quotas Configuration
• Counting rules for Absences/Attendances.
• Deduction Rules
• Assignments of different rules in Absences/Attendances.
 Time management info types
 Quota Update :
• Manual (PA30)
• Through Report RPTQTA00
• Through Time Evaluation (RPTIME00)
 Positive Time recording – Understanding of different Time evaluation Schemas used.
 How to use Positive time Evaluation in the organizations with different business scenarios.

6. Interfaces & CATS in Time Management:

 Introduction to Time Sheet in Time Evaluation
 What is Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS)? – Overview and usage in various time business scenarios.
 CATS – Roles an Authorizations
 Profile setup for data entry in CATS
 Time Interface development required in Positive Time management.
 Use of Time management process with ESS/MSS scenarios – Leave Application, Time booking, Approvals for HR Master Data update.

7.Payroll :

 Introduction to Payroll – HR Domain Process and SAP HCM process – Discussion on understanding the same.
 Payroll area and Control Record (with Retroactive Accounting)
 Generation of Payroll periods – Period and Date modifiers (with different country Fiscal year settings) – Relevancy of this in Time management.
 Payment date setup and modifications.
 Concept Grouping in payroll
 ESG for CAP and PCR
 Wage types – Concept, Types & Use of Wage types.
• Primary Wage types
• Secondary Wage types
 Features used in Payroll
 Wage type characteristics


 Valuation of wage type and different valuation Methods.
• Direct
• Indirect
 Wage type model and defaulting of WT model
 Configuration of basic Pay info type
 Concept of Annual salary and configuration and applicability to the relevant countries.
 Other Payroll info types Configuration – General and country specific.
 Payroll – Multi country payroll – an understanding.
 Payroll processing in SAP system
 Review of relevant data maintained for Payroll process.
 Payroll driver – For India ,US, SG and International
• India Payroll
 Configuration of India specific payroll settings.
 Concepts of Allowance grouping for India.
 India – Statutory configuration on TAX, PF, ESI, Professional Tax.
 Other statutory configuration on Exemptions, HRA, Car & Conveyance etc.,
 Understanding of Indian Payroll Driver, Payroll Schema & India specific PAYROLL FUNCTIONS in SAP HCM.
 India Specific reports and subsequent payroll activities.
• US and SG Payroll :
 US Statutory process & US specific Info types maintenance
 US specific Tax settings.
 Understanding of US Payroll Driver & Payroll Schema in SAP HCM payroll process.
 Business understanding of Garnishments in US payroll.
 Understanding of US Process Logic in SAP.
 US reports and subsequent payroll activities.
 SG specific payroll & tax settings.

 Payroll Schema & Personnel calculation rules – Customizing the same for multiple business scenarios like Time calculation and Proration etc.,
 Checking of Payroll results
 Understanding and customizing the Remuneration statement
 Subsequent payroll activities:
• Bank Transfer process/Cash/Check Payment
• FiCo Posting from HR and Finance perspective.
8. Benefits:
 Introduction Benefits – Country dependency.
 Benefit Area
 Benefit Providers
 Understanding of Plan Categories and configuring of plans and plan types
 Customizing of contribution groupings
 Setting up of Plans:
• Plan details and options
• Dependent details with coverage details
• Cost grouping and cost variants
• Mapping of Plan types with relevant plans
 Flexible administration:
• Administrative parameters
• Pre-requisite and co-requisite plans
 Benefit Adjustment
 First and Second Program grouping
 Employee eligibility
 Benefit info types
 Integration of Benefits to Payroll
 Check the results in Payroll

9. Recruitment:

 Introduction to Recruitment
 Workforce requirement and Advertisement
• Media
• Recruitment instruments
• Address for recruitment instruments
 Applicant Administration
• Personnel Officer
• Applicant structure
• Applicant Group, Range & unsolicited Applicant group
 Applicant Selection
• Applicant status text
• Overall and Vacancy status
• Applicant status reason
• Permissibility of status reason to status
 Applicant Data
• Creating of new Advertisement
• Receipt of application
• Applicant Actions
 Transferring of applicant data to Personnel Administration

10. Training and Event Management:

 Training and Events – An introduction
 Training requirement
 Defining Cost of Training
 Location/Building address for the Training or business event
 Business Event group
 Business Event type
 Maintaining employee data for Business event type
 Multiple business scenarios like pre-book, Cancelation and re-book etc., for attendance.

11. Personnel Development

 Introduction to PD
• Career & Succession Planning
• Qualification and Catalogue
• Profile Matchup
 Integration with PD from other modules
 Setting up of rating scales
 Setting up of Qualifications catalog
 Appraisal System
 Form of Appraisals
 Appraisal Catalog
 Use of assigning Appraisal model to PSA/ESG
 Multiple Appraisal system
 Perform Employee Appraisal

12. Compensation management

 Use of compensation management
 Job Pricing
 Salary surveys
 Budget types

13. Travel Management:

 Functions of Travel management
 Info types for Travel management
 Prerequisite from Organizational and Technical
 Service providers of Travel management
 Interface setup

14. Employee Self Service / Manager Self Service (ESS/MSS):

 Introduction ESS/MSS
 Use of ESS in different HR module
 Difference between ITS and Webdynpro versions.
 Configuration of ESS from Functional perspective
 Understanding of Areas, Sub areas, Page and Services in validation of Roles, I-views, work sets.
 Module wise options available in ESS/MSS
 Involvement of other module consultants
 Use of MSS
 Object integration with MSS
 Work flow understanding in ESS/MSS.

15. E-Recruitment:

 Technical Settings
• Profiles
• Roles
• Authorizations
 Basic Settings
 Recruitment
• Talent ware house
• Applicant tracking
• Requisition Management.
 Administration of Application Processes
 Application Management
 Talent Relationship Management
 Integration in SAP E-Recruiting

16. Learning Solutions:

 LSO – Training and Event management – an Overview
 Training Management in LSO
 Terminologies
 Training and Management
 Basic Settings
 Integration – an overview
 Course preparation
 Course offering
 Day-to-Day Activities
 Recurring Activities in LSO
 Learning portal – an overview and integration required.
 LSO from the end user perspective
 Working on LSO from SAP Easy access.
17. Enterprise Compensation Management :

 Comp Management Vs Enterprise Comp Management
 Budgeting Budget Types and Budget Control Parameters
 Compensation Plans & Reviews
 Eligibility Rules for Compensation plans
 Guidelines Rules & Variants
 Matrix Dimensions &segments
 Allocation of Budget and Maintaining required info types of ECM

18. Project Process in SAP HCM Implementation:
 Preparation of Projects in ASAP methodology.
 Roles and responsibilities of the Consultants in different phases of project.
 Understanding the HCM specific process in HCM implementation.

19. Tools used in SAP Projects:

 Uploads:
• Data upload process in SAP Project
• Usage of – Standard and custom developed upload tools
• Process of generating the Customized developments.
 Reports:
• Standard reports in SAP HCM – Understanding and execution.
• Development of Custom reports in SAP HCM Projects – Process and executing the same.
• Process of preparing the project oriented documents in the Customized developments.







20. Analysis, Business Blue Print & Project process:

 Project documents used in the SAP HCM Project implementation.
 Detailed information on Business blueprint, AsIs – ToBe documents, Different project specification documents.
 Support project process handling – Issue resolution process, tools in managing issues.
 Client interaction and communication

21. Important of Technical and Administration skills for Functional Consultants:

 Importance of ABAP knowledge for a functional consultant.
 Development of Technical qualities within a functional consultant.
 Use of Data base tables, Data dictionary, reporting query & Transaction codes
 Basic understanding on Roles, Authorizations in BASIS
 Understanding of different request.
 Transporting process of requests.
 Scheduling of Back end jobs

22. Briefing on live project environment.

23. Interview Tips & interview questions and Mock interviews.

24. Resume Preparation:

25. General Support: