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Updates, including FP3, regarding consumer grade UI for SAP HCM - HR Renewal

Moeller_R
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
‎05-02-2013 11:24 PM

** This blog, or any related presentation of SAP’s strategy and possible future developments, products or platforms directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice.

Showing that SAP continues to invest in Core HCM on-premise – and that our new user-experience makes the “hybrid” model (on-premise Core HR with cloud talent management) ever more appealing –  March 21, 2013 marked the latest quarterly installment of HR Renewal 1.0:  Feature Pack (FP) 3.  With FP3, we’ve focused on the areas where customers previously had to invest in modifications, where there was an opportunity to improve insight or where performance improvements could make the user-experience even better. 

Delivery Mechanism and Terms

The new delivery frequency and methodology behind HR Renewal has necessitated the introduction of new terms like Feature Pack (FP) that may be hard to keep straight for some of you.  Please remember that Feature Pack 3 for HR Renewal 1.0, is a new kind of add-on, called an “In-Advance Shipment”.  The prerequisite for HR Renewal 1.0 is Enhancement Pack (EhP) 6 for SAP ERP ECC 6.0 and HR Renewal should be a great extra incentive to upgrade if you haven’t already done so.  “In-Advance Shipment” implies that this is new functionality that is being supplied in advance of the next Enhancement Package, which is not officially named but we may assume here is Ehp 7.  In this way, you get a preview of most of the functionality to be included in the next Enhancement Package!  A Feature Pack (FP) in this context is nothing more than a special kind of Support Package (SP) that includes new functionality (where a SP usually only contains code corrections and legal changes), albeit you still control the activation of that new functionality with a business function switch that you may turn on.

Availability and Cost

HR Renewal is available for download today by existing customers on the SAP Service Marketplace.  The recommendation is that you use the SAP Solution Manager, Maintenance Optimizer to do so.  By using the Maintenance Optimizer, it should automatically include prerequisite functionality.   You may also be happy to know that we do not charge extra for this new user-experience per se.  If you were licensed to use Personnel Administration, Organization Management, Employee or Manager Self-Service before, then you may use the new user-experience without incurring additional fees with some exception. 

Where completely new functions are enabled and use is optional: for example the collaboration functionally, supported by our cloud based collaboration engine, would require the appropriate subscription fees.   If you have seen earlier blogs, you also know about the new landing page functionality based on SAPUI5 which also make use of HTML5.  The landing page leverage SAP NW Gateway to read/write backend data.  Earlier on there was a question as to whether additional cost would be incurred with that use of Gateway.  User licenses have been adjusted such that when accessed via the standard SAP delivered landing page, that Gateway usage is covered.  However, you should consult with your Account Manager wherever there are questions about license and subscription fees. 

Landing Page, Short Profile and discussions

OM/PA Customizing for the HR Professional in HR Renewal

Existing SAP ERP HCM customers benefit from the fact that they already have done much of the necessary customizing but visit the new IMG node under “Personnel Management” called “Personnel & Organization.

Partial List of HR Renewal content including country specific (as of FP2, Q4/2012)


Standard Country Specific Forms/Processes delivered with HR Renewal (technical object names: HRPAO*).  Also note: BR = Brazil; CN = China; IN = India; US = USA;  otherwise country independent

HRPAO_BR_DOCUMENTS

Maintain Employee Documents

HRPAO_BR_HIRING

Hire Employee

HRPAO_BR_TRANSFER

Transfer Employee

HRPAO_CN_HIRING

Hire Employee (Advanced)

HRPAO_CN_HIRING_LINK1

Hire Employee (Basic)

HRPAO_CN_INTERNALTRANSFER

Transfer Employee

HRPAO_CN_INTERNALTRANSFERPROMO

Transfer with Promotion

HRPAO_CN_PAYMENT

Change Payments

HRPAO_CN_SOCIALINSURANCE

Change Social Insurance

HRPAO_CN_TERMINATION

Terminate Employment

HRPAO_COPY_ORGUNIT

Copy Organizational Unit

HRPAO_COPY_POSITION

Copy Position

HRPAO_CREATE_ORGUNIT

Create Organizational Unit

HRPAO_CREATE_POSITION

Create Position

HRPAO_DELETE_ORGUNIT

Delete Organizational Unit

HRPAO_DELETE_POSITION

Delete Position

HRPAO_DELIMIT_ORGUNIT

Delimit Organizational Unit

HRPAO_DELIMIT_POSITION

Delimit Position

HRPAO_IN_HIRING

Hire Employee

HRPAO_IN_TERMINATION

Terminate Employment

HRPAO_IN_TRANSFERS

Transfer Employee

HRPAO_MOVE_ORGUNIT

Move Organizational Unit

HRPAO_MOVE_POSITION

Move Position

HRPAO_US_CHANGE_ADDRESS

Change Address of Employee

HRPAO_US_FULL_HIRING

Hire Employee

HRPAO_US_HIRING

Hire Employee

HRPAO_US_TERMINATION

Terminate Employment

HRPAO_US_TRANSFER

Transfer Employee

Standard Generic P&F for WD ABAP/FPM Form Examples (technical object names: HIRE_01_WD, HR_PA_XX*WD, HR_PD*WD)

HIRE_01_WD

Hiring an Employee (DE) - Web Dynpro

HR_PA_XX_CHANGE_WORKINGTIME_1_WD

Change in Working Time (XX) Web Dynpro

HR_PA_XX_SPECIAL_PAYMENT_1_WD

Special Payment -1 (XX) Web Dynpro

HR_PD_CHANGE_ORG_UNIT_ATTR_WD

Change Org Unit's Attributes

Feature Pack 3 – Overview of major features

Feature Pack 3 (FP3) offers something for everyone – employees, managers and HR professionals. Improving TCO and embracing the optimism of an improving economy we introduce the beginning of a new mass change framework with a mass hiring scenario. Another key improvement for the HR professional adds new access and insight into processes from the landing page with a new process lane.  Continuing to expand the infotypes supported in the new interface, Work Schedule (IT-1011) is now included.  Managers get a performance boost – that is, we optimize the performance of the manager home page and team viewer to improve the user-experience.  Additionally, we provide multiple enhancements to employee leave request functionality.  

Leave Request – Multiple approvers

Manager Self-Service Performance Optimization with OADP
Responsive UI for Home page – Asynchronous Refresh

Process Lane

HR Professional – mass hiring action


Future Direction

We intend to continue quarterly deliveries of the HR Renewal program, but there is no release planned for Q2/2013.  Instead, we plan what we anticipate will be called Feature Pack 4 in July.  While today, the landing page is focused on the HR Professional role, we intend to make this the landing page for SAP HCM user no matter what your role.  That is, with FP4, we intend to provide content (i.e., “lanes”), focused on the employee and manager roles.  The landing page should be supported on both the NW Portal and Net Weaver Business Client (NWBC) with FP4. We also have additional TCO reduction type enhancements planned.  For example, enhancements to our HCM Processes and Forms framework to allow simple and quick configuration of workflow enabled HCM process, that specify whole data screens (Infotypes in SAP lingo), which are then presented in order. We eventually plan to grant, you existing customers, your wish to have dynamic actions (i.e., ability to trigger additional screen pop-ups depending on data being changed) incorporated, but this will come a little later.  We are looking at extending the mass action functionality, next in the area Organization Management.  We plan continue to expand HR Renewal content in depth and breadth: for example, providing more country content and infotype coverage.


Considering HR in the Cloud? Consider also a SAP/SF Hybrid with HR Renewal

Do you feel like you need to start moving your HCM environment to the cloud but don’t know how, or not ready to do so in one giant leap?  SAP and successfactors offer class leading HCM solutions and the integration to boot.  The hybrid model allows you to leverage your existing investment in SAP Core HCM and start on the path to the cloud with SF solutions, for example, in the area of talent management.  And, we think if you choose the hybrid path that you will also want to leverage HR Renewal to get that consumer grade user-experience across deployment methods.

Where to Find More Information

Obviously, you can find great information here in SCN.  In addition, provided you have access to the SAP Service Marketplace, the SAP Product Availability Matrix (PAM) is a great place to find all kinds of information about SAP products.  For example, the PAM entry for HR Renewal 1.0 can lead you to information about release dates, release notes, installation/master guides, help documentation and more.  Ramp-up Knowledge Transfer (RKT) materials are also available, see “Preview Conent Details & Buy”, then look for “OCHR10 SAP HR Renewal 1.0” in the section for “SAP ERP Human Capital Management”. The Line of Business Roadmaps are also available and can give you an idea about past deliveries if not a look into the near future (note: a more current version of the HR LoB Roadmap should be available at the above link shortly).  Please be on the lookout for more information at an SAP user-event near you soon.  For example, my manager, Jean-Bernard Rolland, will feature HR Renewal in SAPPHIRE Orlando session 14738 titled “Provide a Consumer-Grade User Experience with Human Capital Management”.  ASUG session 1804 - The new HCM On-Premise User Experience (UX) is being presented by my SAP Products counterpart, Alex Mathew.  Also look for Sherryanne Meyer’s presentation at SAPPHIRE , 14733 – “Deliver a Renewed HR Experience” based on customer validation testing of FP3.  Customers may also find that their implementation partner can also offer some help regarding upgrades, and specifically HR Renewal.  If not, reach out to your SAP Account Executive and, or Client Partner and they will likely find me.

Thanks!

Robert Moeller

SAP Labs, LLC.

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