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SAP RPA 2.0 Challenge Submission: Automate Document Generation feature in SuccessFactors Employee Central

Authors:

Shubha Natarajan (SAP SuccessFactors Consultant)

Akanksha Jha(SAP SuccessFactors Consultant)

Sureshkumar Ramaswamy(SAP Technical Consultant)

Introduction:

This blog post is a part of the SAPRPA2.0_TutorialChallenge2021.We want to demonstrate as to how iRPA can be repurposed to automate Document Generation in SAP SuccessFactors

Use Case:

Document Generation is one of the most frequently used feature in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. It enables admins to generate the documents such as Address proof, Proof of employment, letter of reference etc. in a timely and efficient manner.

Based on the employee’s request, HR admin can generate these documents and share it via email or download it.

Though it is one of the sought-after transaction, it is also a pain area for most of the HR Admins. It is a convoluted task for the admins to generate and share the documents based on employee’s request. SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation(SAP iRPA) will be the solution to this issue.

SAP iRPA helps to automate the regular repetitive tasks performed for the business processes. It helps remove redundant tasks and brings about greater efficiency in addition to being more accurate.

who would benefit from this tutorial : SAP SuccessFactors HR admins would benefit from this Tutorial.

Main Part:

Flowchart

Flowchart

 

Step-by-Step flow of automating the process is given below:

Mail box of the admin:  Configure the outlook rule to receive the mail in a specific folder. For the use case we created a folder 02 RPA in the outlook.

Email

Email

 

Format of the mail:  Subject line should have Admin Center, Letter Name and User as given below

 

 

Create a project from the SAP iRPA cloud factory: Projects>New Project

 

Project

Project

 

Application Creation: Create the application and capture the screenshot from SuccessFactors> Generate document and declare the elements

Application

Application

 

Automation: Go to automation and start creating the flow chart.

Open Outlook Instance: This will open the outlook instance

 

Open%20outlook

Open outlook

 

Search email(Outlook): This will enable the tool to go to the folder (folder name: 02 RPA) with in outlook and search for mail with Admin center as subject .Here the folder name and the subject name has to be added in the parameter.

 

Search%20email

Search email

 

Forever condition: If the above condition is not met (i.e. if the Admin center is not found in the outlook folder) the loop will be terminated

Loop

Loop

 

Get Mail subject: If the condition is met, Subject is captured from the Outlook.

Mail%20Subject

Mail Subject

Custom Script: Using custom script, get template name from the subject

Script

Script

 

Custom Script2: Using custom script2, get user from the subject

 

Script2

Script2

 

Generate Document SF: Based on the declared elements, values are populated by calling the SuccessFactors Application(Generate Documents)

Document%20Generation

Document Generation

 

Note: Within SuccessFactors application, two options are available as given in the screenshot below (Generate & Email/Download). This document covers the procedure for download. This same process applies to both the options.

Options

Options

Get Next Email: Used for processing the next user.

Next%20User

Next User

Overall workflow Process:

Workflow%20Process

Workflow Process

 

Document generation screen in SuccessFactors

Document%20Generation

Document Generation

Post automation, documents are downloaded as given below

Download

Download

Demo Video:

Conclusion:

The above mentioned steps minimize the amount of the time and effort required to generate the documents in employee central.

It’s utility is humongous incase where multitude of such documents need to be generated on a daily basis.

Automation will reduce the manhours to 5-10mins for 100 documents which would otherwise have taken 1 full day.

PS: I wish to thank you for taking your time out for reviewing our blogpost and I invite you to share any comments/thoughts/feedback/observations which would help us improve future content.

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      Author's profile photo Charles Jose
      Charles Jose

      This is really helpful.

      It will have a cascading benefit when considering that it directly speeds up the turnaround time and process flow for each employee using the system.

      Author's profile photo Nalla Chakravarthy
      Nalla Chakravarthy

      Great blog

      Author's profile photo Mohankumar Rengaraju
      Mohankumar Rengaraju

      Great work. The process look very and smart. All the best.

      Author's profile photo Mohankumar Rengaraju
      Mohankumar Rengaraju

      Great work guys, The process looks very and smart. All the best.

      Author's profile photo Meenakshi Sundaram Prabhu
      Meenakshi Sundaram Prabhu

      Well explained with simple steps

       

      Author's profile photo Nitish Arora
      Nitish Arora

      Great Work. This is really informative

      Author's profile photo Viveknandan Perumal
      Viveknandan Perumal

      Well described with proper steps. A good starting point for people to use the iRPA. Thanks for the blog  !!

      Author's profile photo Mohd Shahvez
      Mohd Shahvez

      Very well enunciated & explained.

      Author's profile photo Harisankar Mohanakumar
      Harisankar Mohanakumar

      Really good attempt, Informative too!

      Author's profile photo Sachin Pachauri
      Sachin Pachauri

      Really Good One Shuba..!!

      Author's profile photo Mallikarjuna Cherlopalle
      Mallikarjuna Cherlopalle

      Great Work. Clearly explained step by step.

      Author's profile photo Shanker Duraibabu Shanker D
      Shanker Duraibabu Shanker D

      Very informative and detailed. Thanks for this wonderful blog Shuba.

      Author's profile photo NOC Monitoring
      NOC Monitoring

      Great Work Shubha, Akanksha and Suresh. Keep helping!