SAP S/4HANA for Human Resources

SAP S/4HANA for Human Resources“SAP S/4HANA is SAP’s next generation business suite designed to help run simple. This new suite is built on SAP’s advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA and offers a personalised user experience with SAP Fiori (UI)”

There’s been a lot of buzz around S/4HANA lately. At the recently concluded HR2017, we met many customers who are moving to S/4HANA. The HR attendees were especially curious about:  1) What does S/4HANA have for the HR module? and 2) What’s the future roadmap?

With this blog I have tried to provide answers to some basic questions around S/4HANA, including the difference between Enterprise and Cloud editions in relation to the HR module.

S/4HANA Integration with SAP SaaS Modules

SAP’s S/4HANA Business Suite product provides innovative solutions that support end-to-end business processes integration between  core components and SAP SaaS products such as: SAP Ariba, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Fieldglass, Concur, SAP Hybris, SAP Cloud for Customers, SAP Financial Network, and more.

The following figure provides a great visual representation of this integration with other SAP SaaS modules

Deployment options for S/4HANA

SAP offers two different deployment options for SAP S/4HANA:

On-Premise edition

Cloud edition

1. On-Premise Edition

The current available on-premise version for SAP S/4HANA is 1610.

As part of 1610’s recent innovations, the following features are available for Human Resources:

• Core Organizational Management
  • OM allows you to build, maintain, and reorganize organization structures to:
    • Create and edit organization plans
    • View matrix for creating and editing matrix structures
    • Access expert mode to edit the characteristics of various objects and their relationships via Infotypes
    • Create, display, or change the organizational structure using the Organization and Staffing (Workflow) views
    • Assign characteristics to the organizational units.
• Timesheet S/4HANA
  • Timesheet enables you to record and manage time data effectively.
    • Create and update time entries
    • Time management for concurrent employment
    • Approve, review, and reject time entries as part of manager self-service
• Employee Integration with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (SAP SuccessFactors is not part of SAP S/4 HANA shipment, it requires an additional product license)
  • Employee Central Connectivity enables you to replicate employee, organizational, and cost center data from SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central to SAP S/4HANA system. The following replication services are available as of now:
    • Employee Master Data from Employee Central to SAP S/4HANA
    • Organization Data from Employee Central to SAP S/4HANA
    • Cost Centers from SAP S/4HANA to Employee Central
    • Contingent Worker data Integration from Employee Central to SAP S/4HANA

“One of the key planned innovations for 2017 for HR is the – Enhanced Integration of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll with SAP S/4HANA for payroll postings including cost center replication.”

• Integration Capabilities
  • SAP S/4HANA on-premise integration scenario offers integration best practices with SAP’s SaaS Cloud solutions and third-party applications using the following three middle-ware:
    • SAP PO – Process Orchestration
    • HCI – SAP HANA Cloud integration
    • WS – Web Services

2. Cloud Edition

SAP S/4HANA Cloud edition is designed for enterprises that need standardised cloud integration offerings that cover the core business scenarios and line-of-business cloud solutions.

he following offerings are currently available as part of SAP S/4HANA Cloud edition:

• Professional Services Cloud – for the professional services industry
  • Time recording for employees
  • Time recording for contingent worker via a purchase order
  • Time recording for subcontractor
  • Approve timesheets
  • Integration with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central to replicate: employee data and contingent worker data, company code and cost center data from EC to SAP S/4HANA system, employee photo integration from EC to SAP S/4HANA system

(Separate user subscription for SAP SuccessFactors is required)

• Enterprise Management Cloud – for a full ERP scope
  • Time recording for employees
  • Time recording for contingent worker via a purchase order
  • Time recording for subcontractor
  • Approve timesheets
  • Integration with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central to replicate: employee data and contingent worker data, company code and cost center data from EC to SAP S/4HANA system, employee photo integration from EC to SAP S/4HANA system

(Separate user subscription for SAP SuccessFactors is required)

• Finance Cloud
  • Pre-delivered integration with SAP SuccessFactors
•  SAP Hybris Marketing Cloud
  • There are various editions available for marketing customers under Hybris, with no integration with SuccessFactors
• Integration Capabilities
  • The main integration technologies are SAP HANA Cloud integration and web services SAP S/4HANA for Human Resources

Thanks & Regards,
Anipe Abraham,
SAP HCM / SuccessFactors Consultant / Employee Central / Employee Central Payroll / Payroll Control Center /Corporate Trainer.

Note: the purpose of the blogs that i write on my personal website is in order to help the consultants and students who are trying to learn new things .i write it as per my personal interest , hope all my blogs are helpful and its just for learning use .to help you with most up to date content in SAP SuccessFactors . By Anipe Abraham