This session explores the symptoms and causes of many of the most common organizational management (OM) challenges and provides tips for avoiding them. Learn why it’s advisable to model OM structures after your organizational structure (rather than your cost centers) for reporting, and the problems you’ll avert by doing so. Discover the proper ways to set up and troubleshoot your organizational structure for headcount and reporting hierarchies. Discover how to create a position with 4 basic links from the organizational structure — position, cost center, job, and org unit — and understand why maintaining chief relationships may be necessary for future functionality enhancements. Learn which common OM mistakes adversely impact employee and manager self-service and functionality and get tips for avoiding these pitfalls.

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• Session presented by: Kellie Fitzpatrick, Symphony Management Consulting

Learn what’s new in SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) and get a first look at what’s planned for 2009 and beyond. Take a tour of the SAP roadmap for all areas of SAP ERP HCM, including solutions and updates for compensation, shared-service delivery, travel management, and talent management. Learn what enhancement packages are and how they are used to deliver updates and additions to the functionality and usability of SAP Business Suite and SAP ERP solutions. Gain an understanding of what the switch framework is and how it is used to activate the enhancement package updates you choose to install. Drill down into the features and functionality contained in enhancement packages 1 through 3, as well as those coming in enhancement package 4, and see before-and-after demos and overviews of the major functional enhancements.

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• Session presented by: Hendrik Vordenbäumen, SAP AG

Attend this session to obtain a detailed description of the features, capabilities, and requirements for using SAP ERP HCM processes and forms in your self-service applications. Determine whether using HCM processes and forms is the right choice for your organization (versus Web Dynpro development or standard personnel change requests [PCRs]) and come away with a comparison chart to help you build the business case. Get a realistic understanding of the costs and resources required to create your own forms and understand which skills are required to successfully leverage HCM processes and forms. Review the framework for creating a form and step through a real-life example of the creation of a basic form, including how to use Adobe scripting, when to add generic services, and how to attach a workflow template. Take home a document with best practices from real-life implementations and tips you can use to speed up your own implementation.

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• Session presented by: Fernando T. de Mattos, Accenture

This session explores the features, functionality, and integration points of time management in SAP systems and provides an in-depth review of how, when, and why various SAP processes use time data. Assess your options for evaluating and managing time in your SAP system, including cross application time sheets (CATS) and entry on orders, as well as integration with clock systems and with SAP functionality for production planning. Examine how time data is used in other standard processes from SAP, such as activity rates in controlling functions (commonly known as CO); time data evaluation on orders in plant maintenance and project systems functions; and integration with production planning orders. Gain insight into the processes used to integrate time data across different application areas in SAP ERP HCM, such as leave management, compensation management, staff planning, and learning. Step through a live demo of time management integration within a CO application to understand how standard SAP processes can be used to develop standard rates over a period of time. Come away with an understanding of the questions to ask when reviewing SAP-supported business processes, including which ones require time data and how many can share this data, along with the potential “gotchas” to avoid in an integrated implementation.

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• Session presented by: Hillary Robinette, EPI-USE

Learn the fundamentals of SAP ERP HCM authorizations and come away with solid strategies to make sure users only access the information they need to do their jobs. Understand the difference between traditional authorization approaches that involve user IDs and profile assignments and more advanced structural authorization concepts based on the SAP ERP HCM organizational structure. Learn how to implement structural authorizations to ensure users have access to their responsible organization and get tips and tricks to maintain optimal system performance when structural authorizations are in use. Take home a list of SAP ERP HCM authorization objects, fields, and field options to use as a checklist when implementing your own authorizations.

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• Session presented by: Sylvia Chaudoir, Deloitte Consulting

Take a detailed, technical look at the different options available in SAP ERP HCM for delivering workflow to a number of recipients within an approval group. Through specific examples and screenshots, learn how to set up and use distribution lists within the business workplace to deliver work items to user groups. Walk through the custom rule creation process and see how custom rules can be used to determine which user or user group should receive particular workflow items. Get expert advice for recognizing and resolving potential pitfalls involved in using organizational objects and the upkeep of related master data, such as vacancies and changes in business rules. Take home a “how-to” handout to assist in your delivery method implementations, including transactions, logic behind certain choices, and tips for success.

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• Session presented by: Jonathan Bartlett, Exaserv

Bolster your knowledge of smart forms tool from SAP with an overview of functional and technical features, including an understanding of which HR modules the tool can be incorporated into for increased efficiency. Walk through the creation of a pay statement with the smart forms tool to understand how to design more graphical, professional-looking forms. Review the 3 most common challenges associated with creating a pay statement in SAP solutions with the older forms editor (PE51) and receive a thorough understanding of how the smart forms tool resolves these issues. From creation to display, get step-by-step instruction for leveraging the tool to integrate pay statements with the portal. Come away with expert advice for recognizing and resolving common configuration and business process challenges, including how to use the tool to represent retroactivity and report claims on the pay statement. Take home examples of configuration and programming capabilities enabled through the smart forms tool.

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• Session presented by: Aaron Pirrotta, Whitaker-Taylor

Go beyond the basics of SAP functionality for organizational management (OM) and get best practices for creating a custom suite of objects, relationships, and evaluation paths to solve the most complex HR and self-service challenges. Explore common reporting, authorization, and managerial view scenarios that may require custom OM objects and walk through the steps required to design and configure new objects. See specific examples of how to leverage a custom suite of objects, relationships, and evaluation paths to enhance report output and performance. Find out how to use a custom object suite to solve complex self-service and delegation authorization challenges that cannot be met with standard objects.

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• Session presented by: Greg Robinette, Lentech, Inc.

This session takes a detailed look at the SAP Learning Solution authoring environment architecture to understand how it communicates with the content management system and back-end SAP ERP system, including how tables are impacted in the back-end and how to leverage the data stored in those tables. Learn the standards supported by the latest version of SAP Learning Solution, including SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and AICC, and discuss the pros and cons of developing content (or purchasing third-party content) for each standard. Walk through a demo to see how third-party content creation tools work with the authoring environment in SAP ERP, including how the content conversion process works as you bring external content into the authoring environment. Explore commonly used content creation tools and see how they work — or don’t work — with the authoring environment. Review the repository explorer architecture, including lesser-known functions such as content search and content editing on the fly. Examine each phase of the publishing process and find out how versioning is supported. Take home sample course content that includes 2 versions of the same course using different learning strategies to see firsthand how learning strategies are built into content.

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• Session presented by: Sharon Wolf Newton, hyperCision

This in-depth session offers advanced instruction for leveraging workflow to enforce complex business rules in manager self-service processes from SAP. Step through examples of complex business rules to learn how to expand on the standard approval loop design, and develop a central routing function that can be used universally across your organization’s manager self-service workflows. Learn how to automatically escalate manager self-service workflows and dynamically change an approval chain mid-process to adapt to real-time change requests. Take home documentation of workflow solutions, a white paper on tracking applications, sample code for routing and agent rules, and screenshots of implemented workflows.

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• Session presented by: Jacob Crane, EPI-USE America

This advanced session examines the decoupled infotype framework in SAP ERP 6.0 and provides a detailed explanation of how the infotype builder transaction has been changed to include decoupling. Through examples and screenshots, explore the decoupled infotype framework, including how it differs in development, design, and function from traditional infotypes. Drill down into new enhancement spots that replace the non-decoupled enhancements, tables that need to be reconfigured in the decoupled framework, and the transaction that creates decoupled infotypes and infotype versions (PM01). For existing or new portal applications and HCM processes and forms, find out how to assess if the configuration, classes, and screen structures support the infotypes you want to enable and learn what you need to configure if they do not. Take home sample code of conversion classes and check classes, sample code of user exits, a screenshot of transaction PM01, and sample requirements for decoupled infotype specifications.

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• Session presented by: JP Sallasvaara, SisuLogic

This session goes beyond the basics to provide a technical understanding of the role that time schemas play in evaluating and processing time entries. Receive tips and tricks for using time types not only to store hours, but also for arbitrary values such as numbers of days, status flags, and units other than hours. Find out how to add time wage data to payroll accounting without going through the general wage type (GWT) function, and how customizing messages can be leveraged to tell supervisors when an employee is late for a shift or leaves work early. Learn how to manipulate — expand, contract, or delete — time pairs, and find out how to create new pairs for custom purposes. Get step-by-step instruction for creating a custom time management operation within the schema to gain more flexibility when facing complex time evaluation scenarios.

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• Session presented by: Luke Switkowski, Exaserv

Learn how SAP customers are leveraging emerging functionality from TimeLink to automate time management processes, including pay rule calculation, leave management, labor activity tracking, and workforce scheduling. Explore ways to use these solutions to increase productivity, reduce payroll errors, regulate labor costs, and provide real-time access to mission-critical SAP data. Examine the wide range of options TimeLink solutions offer to collect data, including badge-based terminals, biometrics, touch-screen kiosks, mobile/wireless, and interactive voice response (IVR). Come away with time management tips and best practices, such as how to eliminate time theft by implementing biometrics.

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• Session presented by: Leslie Chang, TimeLink

This session provides step-by-step instructions that any user, regardless of experience level, can follow to perform basic and advanced calculations in reports from the SAP query tool for any application area in SAP — without coding or programming access or knowledge. Learn the easiest way to create calculated fields in SAP Query, including basic calculations (for example, “current date – hire date” to determine length of service) as well as even more complex “if…then” statements. Learn how to add symbols and color icons to your report to highlight certain entries — add a red flag to all vendors overdue for payment, for example — and learn how to maximize graphics and charts to showcase your reports in various formats, all through easy selections. Take home a guide that will allow you to maximize the use of selections screens, in combination with calculations, to add further specifications to your report selections.

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• Session presented by: Danielle Larocca, Axon Global Solutions

Are you looking for tips and expert advice to improve the results and performance of your HR and payroll processes?  Join a panel of Symphony Management Consulting’s experienced consultants as they take turns sharing ideas, concepts, stories, and recommendations gleaned from years of experience and dozens of SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) and payroll projects.  Learn how Symphony sets itself apart from other consulting partners by focusing solely on SAP ERP HCM and by putting the needs and success of its clients first in every engagement. You’ll walk away from this session with best practice ideas and practical tips you can put to immediate use in your SAP ERP HCM environment and a stronger understanding of why you might consider Symphony as the right partner for your next SAP ERP HCM project, upgrade, or support engagement.

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• Session presented by: Kellie Fitzpatrick; Cathryn Westgarth; Judy Carpenter; Julie DeLaTorre; Maggie Hoang, Symphony Management Consulting

Get detailed instruction for developing and implementing a competency framework in your talent management processes to monitor employee skills and qualifications, identify skills gaps, and assist with professional development and career planning. Gain an understanding of how a competency framework integrates with succession, performance, development, learning, and recruiting processes in SAP systems to help you attract and retain the right skill sets in your organization. Come away with a proven 5-step methodology for building and integrating a qualifications catalog in your existing SAP environment. See examples of dashboards that leverage competency data to track potential across an organization and provide overviews of the strengths and weaknesses of current skills for succession planning purposes.

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• Session presented by: Zahava Kahan, Deloitte Consulting

This special 3-hour session provides an in-depth look at the complete SAP ERP HCM portfolio of service delivery features and functions, the capabilities of each solution, and an updated accounting of the skills and knowledge it takes to become a self-services expert. Gain a solid understanding of:
• Employee self-service
• Manager self-service
• HR administrative services
• HR administrator business package
• SAP ERP HCM process and forms
• SAP functionality for employee interaction centers
• Duet™
• SAP NetWeaver® Portal
Explore the top challenges of self-service implementations, including poor user acceptance and ineffective design, and come away with lessons to avoid these pitfalls. Step through a typical self-services project plan to learn how these projects are staffed and which roles are most important to each project phase.

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• Session presented by: Fernando T. de Mattos, Accenture

Hear a firsthand account of how BMW Manufacturing (BMC MC) re-engineered its existing role-based HR authorization concept to include more efficient and secure structural authorizations. Find out what configuration must be in place before implementing structural authorizations and learn about key transactions and programs available for maintaining structural roles. Understand the importance of evaluation paths within structural authorizations, and get tips and tricks for using standard and custom evaluation paths. Discover the advantages of this context-sensitive authorization solution, and get strategies for successfully leveraging context-sensitive roles and authorization objects in your system.

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• Session presented by: Eric Wood, BMW Manufacturing Co.

Take an in-depth look at how Northrop Grumman, a global defense company, met its workforce analytics needs by integrating SAP BusinessObjects with its corporate human resources system, eZHR. Get detailed insight into how this resulted in over 300 critical dashboard pages enabled by more than 5,000 analytics for Competency Management, Recruitment, and Succession Planning. Learn how Northrop Grumman leveraged SAP BusinessObjects to create a customized warehouse schema, including scripting to populate the database. Explore the universe design leveraging the customized schema and learn about additional considerations the company took to support Dashboard Manager and Performance Manager.

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• Session presented by: Pinakin Patel and Patrick Elder, Northrop Grumman

Take an in-depth look at the ways Mannington Mills ensures its HR master data is accurate and proactively reduces the risk of inaccuracies such as incorrect tax filing and over- or underpayment of employees. Learn how the right data entry process can greatly enhance the accuracy of your data, and get tips for designing your organizational structure and HR processes to increase accuracy at the first point of entry. Find out how Mannington Mills eliminates errors before data transfers to third parties and payroll runs by running a daily payroll simulation. Explore basic configuration, such as screen modifications, changes to personnel actions, and pre- and co-requisites that improve data integrity. Take home a spreadsheet used to create desired dates, a spreadsheet of all reports used, and an ABAP code handout for releasing payroll for corrections.

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• Session presented by: David Wisor, Mannington Mills

This session examines the complexities of retroactive calculations in SAP payroll functionality and explores when, why, and how retroactivity is used in payroll processing. Explore the data changes that can cause retroactive calculations in SAP payroll applications and understand the customization options available that can impact retroactive calculation triggers. Gain an understanding of the mechanisms SAP uses to store retroactive calculation results, including a detailed explanation of the use of clusters, the various types of retroactive calculation results, and the impact of multiple retroactive calculations on the payroll cluster results. Get answers to the biggest payroll reporting and financial integration questions, including how retroactive calculations are posted to the SAP General Ledger and to accounts payable applications in SAP ERP Financials. Take home a cheat sheet with steps to re-create the retroactive calculation scenarios used in this session.

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• Session presented by: Kristof Huyghebaert, Deloitte Consulting

This session offers a comprehensive look at the SAP Interactive Forms software by Adobe, which allows you to introduce self-service forms that are intuitive to users, mimicking the familiar look and feel of existing paper forms. Explore how SAP Interactive Forms functionality aids users in streamlining data entry, drives online and offline forms usage, and ties into workflow for approvals and reviews. Gather ideas for where you can use SAP Interactive Forms in HR self-service processes to enhance usability, including employee benefits statements, 401(k) change reports, and W-2s. Walk through a case study detailing how Adobe uses SAP Interactive Forms to drive usability and increase adoption of applications in its own SAP ERP HCM system.

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• Session presented by: Mathias Siegel, Adobe Systems

This informative session provides the detailed knowledge every SAP user needs to create reports in SAP using query tools — and without any programming required! Designed as a demo-driven learning experience, you will leave this session with the knowledge you need for using or training others on this classic SAP tool, as well as how to configure your SAP solutions to enable the tool’s proper operation. The session’s tutorial style and step-by-step instruction will teach you how to use these standard query tools for basic reporting, advanced usage, and integration to Microsoft® Office® applications. Learn to create transaction-code shortcuts for SAP reports, automate scheduled jobs that email PDF versions of SAP query reports, and much more. This session provides comprehensive guidelines for training end users to use these query tools, along with tips to reduce end-user reliance on custom ABAP reports or third-party solutions.

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• Session presented by: Amy Petroy, EPI-USE

See how to bring back-end SAP functionality for personnel actions to the Web using Exaserv's Data Entry Solution, making it easier to manage your company's data and allowing you to build consistent processes across various locations. Learn how this solution can be leveraged by various groups of users, such as HR administrators, managers, and employees. Understand how the design of the solution allows companies to be more cost efficient and improve data accuracy. Delve into how to create data entry screens using a Web generation tool. Learn how to link specific fields to dynamic help screens or intranet/Internet sites that your users can rely on for guidance. Come away with an understanding of how to produce custom screens for personnel actions without the need for custom development.

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• Session presented by: Frank Meertens and Wim De Smet, Exaserv

Get a preview of the new analytical content and an overview of the existing SAP NetWeaver BI business content available within SAP ERP HCM that can help you streamline your workforce, talent management, and shared services analytics. Get an overview of the scope of SAP ERP HCM analytics, which includes over 200 queries, 300 key figures, and 100 templates within SAP NetWeaver BI and 6 analytical composite applications. Gather expert advice on how you can use SAP ERP HCM to help managers and users access report and business intelligence on their own, and identify the requirements necessary to put SAP ERP HCM into use at your organization. Explore how other SAP and third-party solutions can benefit your analytics in order to get a better insight in your workforce processes.

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• Session presented by: Judith Roess, SAP AG

This session provides a strategic overview of leading practices and lessons learned when implementing technology solutions for SAP processes for talent management. Step through the requirements of implementing talent management technology and features from SAP and learn what’s required to set up the landscape — from a program, process, and technology perspective. Get expert advice on gathering the appropriate data within your SAP system, including succession planning, talent review, performance management, and individual development plans. Find out what’s required to manage talent management from a global perspective, while still administering it locally.

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• Session presented by: Zahava Kahan, Deloitte Consulting

Take a new look at dynamic actions and the best ways you can leverage them to improve data entry accuracy, drive workflow, and streamline infotype and personnel action maintenance in SAP ERP HCM. Come away with an understanding of the dynamic action configuration elements you need to know, including action types and plausibility checks. Walk through a demo of HR dynamic actions, and follow a dynamic action from configuration through the actual end result. Receive unique tips to troubleshoot and avoid the most common errors and syntactical mistakes users make in their dynamic action design. Take home a quick reference guide to dynamic action types and a list of tips and tricks to ensure proper dynamic action syntax.

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• Session presented by: Julie DeLaTorre, Symphony Management Consulting

Building and sustaining a strong internal SAP support team is an essential element of protecting your organization’s investment in its SAP implementation. Learn how EPI-USE’s SAP Application Management Services (AMS) supports a productive SAP implementation from both a functional and technical perspective. Understand how a support contract, coupled with a Service Level Agreement, could help you save on consulting fees and support staff costs. Get tips on how to build a strong, cohesive SAP support team, including how to structure the team. Identify the key skills you’ll need on your team for training, development, and knowledge transfer. Come away with valuable insight into which areas of your business are the best candidates for a new or expanded internal support team. See how the right AMS partner is crucial in strengthening your internal team.

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• Session presented by: Werner Joubert, EPI-USE America

Learn how Topaz Bridge S2 enables global organizations to get more out of their SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) investments, including the ability to deliver employee and manager self-service functionality with lower training and support overhead. Gain insight into how this solution increases corporate productivity and efficiency by enabling greater usability and governance for self-service solutions in SAP ERP HCM, including employee maintenance of personal information and personnel change requests. Step through a real-life example to see how a leading pharmaceutical industry client implemented Topaz Bridge S2 to support its global workforce and streamline self-service processes in SAP ERP HCM. Come away with an understanding of how they lowered their HR self-services delivery costs, increased employee satisfaction, and drove organizational transformation by leveraging the Topaz Bridge S2 solution.

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• Session presented by: Cornelius Willis, Topaz Bridge

This expert-led session provides analysts and power users with a comprehensive overview of the strategy and configuration decisions that are required to get the most out of the standard SAP query reporting tools, including infoset query and quickviewer. Review the critical decisions an organization must make prior to deploying each of these query tools. Receive best practices for rolling out these tools and for developing an ongoing administrative strategy for them. Get detailed, step-by-step instruction to configure your SAP solutions to use each of the SAP query-based reporting tools. Learn the best ways to define and set up query groups, configure infosets, and use logical databases. Get important dos and don’ts for transport maintenance and client deployment.

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• Session presented by: Danielle Larocca, Axon Global Solutions

This session goes beyond standard documentation to provide step-by-step configuration tips for implementing objective setting and appraisal (OSA) templates, such as anonymous, weighted, and time-sensitive appraisals, in your organization. Learn how to utilize OSA in your SAP Learning Solution implementation by, for example, including course feedback appraisals, and get tips for mastering the configuration and design of the templates. See how OSA functionality can be used to support development of personnel with mid-year reviews, 360º appraisals, self-evaluation, and final evaluation, and examine OSA’s link to succession planning. Find out which reports you can use to get the most value from the appraisal information. Come away with factors to consider when rolling out OSA, such as how to prepare your organization for a competency- and performance-based structure and how to utilize business add-Ins (BAdIs) to your advantage. Take home a quick-start configuration guide for OSA in an SAP ERP HCM environment.

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• Session presented by: Melissa Clayton, Symphony Management Consulting

Explore the entire range of SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions during this special 3-hour session. This session takes a comprehensive look at SAP BusinessObjects functionality for compliance and risk management and provides a holistic view of internal controls from financial and business processes to global trade services. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the integration points between GRC solutions and other components of your SAP landscape, including SAP BusinessObjects solutions for enterprise performance management. Hear how other companies are using these tools to manage risk and compliance. This session also provides recommendations for getting started with SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions. Leave this session with strategies for proactive risk management and for making risk information readily available to decision makers.

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• Session presented by: Gary Dickhart and Jim Dunham, SAP BusinessObjects

Explore the functionality of the standard delivered hierarchy framework tool from SAP and learn how to optimize its content and functions to streamline your organizational management (OM) maintenance activities. Walk away with a step-by-step process for customizing the hierarchy framework interface to suit your specific OM data maintenance needs. Learn how to add, adjust, and remove the objects that are maintained in the hierarchy framework functionality by SAP. Find out how to make changes to the screen layout tab pages to include only those OM infotypes you want to appear. Step through project examples to see how your peers have customized the OM interface for specific user populations and walk away with strategies and best practices to apply in your organization.

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• Session presented by: Sylvia Chaudoir, Deloitte Consulting

Attend this session to learn about solutions for SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) from ROC and learn why usability is key to streamlining HR and payroll operations. Find out how the latest version of SAP ERP HCM provides you with many options to improve the user experience and engage the workforce.  Visualize and validate your data with SAP Talent Visualization by Nakisa. Leverage ROC’s uniquely available and intuitive SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe to simplify many core HR administration tasks, such as creating new positions. Optimize your payroll function with tools that enable you to reconcile and analyze employee payslips. See live demonstrations that show you how to maximize the benefit from your SAP ERP HCM system by rapidly deploying packaged services. Come away with an understanding of how ROC solutions have enabled other SAP customers to improve process efficiency and significantly reduce time spent on HR administrative tasks.

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• Session presented by: Tom Hallewell, ROC

Understand the important link between wage types and tax models in SAP payroll functionality and learn exactly how and where the information comes into play during payroll processing. See how the link between wage types and tax models is utilized in the BSI® TaxFactory™ solution. Know what wage types are covered by processing classes 69 and 71  and how they relate to the tax model link. Understand how SAP ERP HCM supports key tax models, tax combinations, and tax types, and learn when and how to create them on your own. Get advice to avoid potentially costly pitfalls associated with wage types and tax models, such as tweaking the existing model for deferred compensation and volunteer taxes.

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• Session presented by: Mike Timm, Integrated Consulting Group

This session offers an up-to-date look at new SAP solutions for enterprise performance management features and functionality contained in enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP. Get a brief overview of existing functionality in SAP solutions for enterprise performance management to understand how and where the recent enhancements will have the largest effect on the usability of both SAP Business Suite and SAP ERP applications. Drill down into the features and functions contained in enhancement package 4, and see demos of updates to performance management processes, including new user interfaces, cascading goals functionality, and enhanced integration with SAP Learning Solution.

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• Session presented by: Nish Pangali, SAP Labs

This session explains the importance of evaluation paths in SAP ERP HCM and provides examples of how they affect portal development, security, workflow, personnel development (PD) reporting, and organizational management (OM) maintenance and display. Review standard evaluation paths and learn where to find them in SAP ERP HCM. Step through detailed examples to learn how to properly design and use a standard evaluation path with SAP functionality for OM, PD, security roles, and portal development. Walk away with tips for avoiding potential design pitfalls such as creating evaluation paths that form an endless loop.

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• Session presented by: Amy Petroy, EPI-USE

This session offers proven solutions for enhancing the standard appraisal form in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of SAP ERP HCM performance appraisal document flow. Understand the responsibilities and tasks of the Portal, Basis, and Security teams for handling performance appraisal processes, and drill down into the standard SAP and SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence reporting capabilities for supporting performance management. Explore custom solutions that automatically process work and life events — including new hires, transfers, and terminations — in the active appraisal form and can save time and money by eliminating manual intervention. Learn how to automatically forward SAP appraisal workflow notifications to the participant’s company email address, including daily automatic summary notifications. Take home sample code for each of the technical solutions presented in the session, and screen cams of the performance appraisal document flow process.

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• Session presented by: Pavan Tatiparthi, Exaserv

Whether you’re planning to implement SAP ERP HCM or are simply new to the HCM community, this session will provide you with an overview of the most important features, functions, and integration points you’ll need to know to succeed. Examine the HCM functionality SAP offers — from personnel administration (PA) features through payroll and self-services — to help you better understand why, when, and how your organization should move forward with SAP ERP HCM. Understand how SAP ERP HCM integrates with SAP ERP Financials, work orders, labor costing, and more, and come away with examples of implementation plans and accelerators that can help your project succeed. Explore critical SAP ERP HCM authorization and security requirements, including the difference between structural and person-based authorizations, and find out how to leverage delivered functionality to improve your organization’s reporting options.

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• Session presented by: Kellie Fitzpatrick, Symphony Management Consulting

Take an in-depth look at how SAP E-Recruiting functionality has been enhanced to provide recruiters with more tools and queries to find the right fit for each job opening, including enhanced search capabilities, requisition management, application tracking, new candidate profiles, and administrative services. View comprehensive demos and screenshots to better understand the usability improvements made in SAP E-Recruiting with enhancement package 4. Understand the technical prerequisites to consider before implementing enhancement package 4. Gain insight into the future roadmap for SAP E-Recruiting solutions and the functionality planned for future enhancement packages.

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• Session presented by: Harry West, SAP Labs

What types of HR reports can be generated from an SAP NetWeaver BI system? When should your HR reporting be done with SAP NetWeaver BI versus your SAP ERP system? Why and how have SAP customers deployed SAP NetWeaver BI from HR reporting? Learn what SAP NetWeaver BI reports and capabilities are most valued by customers and the best practices they’ve put in place to improve their organizations’ HR reporting options and report quality. Understand why you should start your SAP NetWeaver BI implementation by first rolling out the standard HR business content that is delivered with SAP NetWeaver BI, and learn the key questions you should ask before beginning any customization efforts. Learn how to use out-of-the-box solutions and reports to increase your project’s return on investment.

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• Session presented by: Rishi Agarwal, IBM Global Business Services