Many clients with complex business processes that track employee times usually have a common requirement to restrict employees from working (and by extension, booking) overtime over a certain number of hours. I have also observed in most cases that these restrictions are usually for the work done in a month rather than strictly in a....

I have implemented a custom solution to mitigate the below situation  in the context of  Multiple Employments (Global Assignments/Concurrent/Secondment/International Transfers )  to replicate  valid user name / logon (infotype IT0105) name from SF EC to S/4 HANA based on the active status of the user either on Host assignment/Primary or on Home Assignment. Because  valid....

Setting up a point-to-point integration with client-certificate based authentication between Employee Central Payroll and SuccessFactors can provide an added layer of security for sensitive payroll data. Here are the general steps to set up such integration: Obtain client certificates: Both Employee Central Payroll and SuccessFactors must have their own client certificates. These certificates are used....

It has been always a painful task to enter the same default values in payroll transactions (Payroll Driver/Payroll Posting to Accounting/Remuneration Statement…) or select the variant to populate the values. SAP has a solution to default the values at the start of the all major Payroll related transaction, and interestingly it can be easily achieved....

Hello Everyone, I would like to share my experience of the Integration setup for cost center replication from BTP Master data integration to SAP Employee Central Payroll.   Business Purpose and Flow Integration scenario you can create, update, and delete cost centers in SAP S/4HANA Cloud and have them transferred to Employee Central Payroll by....

Introduction: In this blog I am going to explain how the retroactive accounting functionality of HCM payroll is handled in payroll schema and pcr level. Retroactive accounting may occur in the payroll in the following two scenarios, Master data changes happened in the payroll past. Processing payroll for more than one payroll period. This blog....

Technology evolves in a rapid pace in this modern era.  ECP is a niche skill in the world of Human capital management. In ECP, we need to password protect attachments while sending the sensitive data .Otherwise It will create privacy related non compliance issues. This blog will explain the process to send password protected PDF....

Introduction CPF contributions are the major portion of Singapore payroll calculations. These contributions are subject to a number of legislative requirements and are quite complex in nature to understand and implement. SAP has provided solutions for various scenarios for CPF calculations and these are subject to configuration and consulting expertise. In this blog, we will....

I still remember back in early days of my HR functional career, all customers when they saw the Pay statement with daunting cumulative wage type “/552 Difference prev. Period”, it was always requested that the break-up of all past payments to appear in the statement. This functionality is easily configurable with zero coding in the very powerful....

Welcome to my first blog as the Solution Marketing Lead for SAP SuccessFactors Time Management. While I will not even attempt to be as eloquent and conversational as my predecessor Paul Meredith, nor as detailed and technical as my Product Management colleague Volker Ruof, I would like to be able to provide you with a....

Introduction – This article relates to scenario where absence entitlement are calculated in external system but are used in Employee Central Time Off for employees to record absences.   Background – Migration to SuccessFactors from on-premise SAP HCM and non-SAP ecosystem is happening for last few years and this will continue to grow. At times multiple system....

As we know, while using an integration between SF Employee Central and SAP Employee Central Payroll the customers can face some “integration issues” due to standard validations that are made only at the ECP level, and not on EC (the core system). One of these cases is about the PIS (Social Integration Program), a very....

Hi Everyone! Hope you and your loved ones are staying safe and have had a good start to 2021. Excited to write this blog to cover the first half SAP SuccessFactors 2021 release! I would recommend checking out the “What’s New Viewer” to take a look at the full release notes and get into all....

In our previous blog post – 7 Most Commonly Asked Questions About Package Configuration Manager for SAP SuccessFactors Solutions – we discussed the capabilities of the Package Configuration Manager tool. The next step is to outline some of the standard Business Scenarios that the SAP Partners can use the tool in their SAP SuccessFactors implementations. According to our....