SuccessFactors Employee Central H1 2024 , Release provides exciting innovations across SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central H1 2024 that can help you transform your HR operations, increase employee engagement, and deliver results.
Don’t miss out SuccessFactors Employee Central H1 2024 on all the great innovations and enhancements. Here are a few key updates you should consider for SuccessFactors Employee Central
H1 – 2024 Release Schedule
- Preview Release – April 19, 2024
- Production Release – May 17, 2024
1. Add to Transport Bundle in Employee Central
You can add Off Cycle Event batch objects in Manage Data and Dynamic Group Filters in Business Configuration UI to a transport bundle so that you can transport it to a paired target system using the Configuration Transport Center.
The Add to Transport Bundle option is now available for:
| Feature | Where? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Off Cycle Event Batch | In Manage Data Off Cycle Event Batch Take Action Add to Transport Bundle. | Cannot exclude references: The entire Off Cycle Event Batch object will be transported. You cannot exclude references (like filters) during transport.Only allowed in Full Purge mode: If you are transporting an Off Cycle Event Batch object named oceb_obj from one instance to another, and the destination already has an Off Cycle object with the same name oceb_obj, then the existing Off Cycle Event Batch in the destination will be replaced by the one from the source. The existing object in the destination instance will be overwritten with the new object during the transport process, ensuring that the destination instance has the source version of the Off Cycle Event Batch object. |
| Business Configuration | In Business Configuration UI Dynamic Group Filters Take Action Add to Transport Bundle. |
We’ve made this enhancement to eliminate manual configuration efforts in the paired target system.
Configuration Requirements
You’ve created a transport bundle in Configuration Transport Center.
Role-Based Permission Prerequisites
You’ve the Administrator >> Configuration Transport Center >> Access to transport configurations permission.
What’s Changed
How It Looks Now
How It Looked Before
Technical Details
| Reference Number | ECT-232735 |
| Product | Employee Central |
| Module | Process Automation |
| Feature | Organizational Management Business Configuration |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 1H 2024 |
| Valid as Of | 2024-05-17 |
2. Address Typeahead in Employee Address Information
You can now use the Address Typeahead and Address Validation services independently or together for accurate address data.
The Address Typeahead feature simplifies the process of entering accurate address data and displays address data at the level that is searched and selected.
Configuration Requirements
You need to have a license for the microservice from SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for location data (DQM microservices).
What’s Changed
How It Looks Now
In the current version, Address Typeahead and Address Validation Service are supported and can be used independently or together in the Employee Central System.
In the previous version, the Address Typeahead feature wasn’t supported for employee address information. Only employee address validation in the Employee Central System was supported.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | ECT-223727 |
| Product | Employee Central |
| Module | Localization |
| Feature | Country/Region Specifics |
| Action | Recommended |
| Enablement | Customer configured |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Major |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 1H 2024 |
| Valid as Of | 2024-05-17 |
3. Automatically Hire Applicants from Recruiting and Onboarding to Employee Central
You can now set up your system so that applicants from Recruiting, or Onboarding, or Recruiting and Onboarding are automatically hired into Employee Central with no manual intervention in the Manage Pending Hires tool.
Automatic Hire only supports the following processes:
- For Recruiting:
- Regular Hire
- Concurrent Employment (CE)
- Global Assignment (GA)
- For Onboarding:
- Regular Hire
- Rehire
- Rehire with New Employment
All onChange, onSave, and onPostSave rules are supported by Automatic Hire.
An applicant appears with the Automatic Hire icon after their name in the Manage Pending Hires tool if there’s a need for manual intervention in the hiring process. These scenarios include those where a workflow is involved or where a data-related error occurs during hiring. For additional details, see Enhancements to Manage Pending Hires Tool
Automatic Hire provides an easier and more efficient process that avoids the need for manual steps and reduces the time to hire applicants.
Note
We revised the information regarding configuration and support for rules to clarify the requirements for this feature.
Configuration Requirements
Employee Central
There is no additional configuration needed in Employee Central for this feature.
Onboarding
Enable Admin Center Onboarding General Settings Submit Onboarding Data Using Centralized Services.
A new setting in the Onboarding General Settings page, called Enable Automatic Hiring for Onboarding controls the feature.
You can create a business rule using the scenario Trigger Automatic Hiring of Applicants for Onboarding in the Configure Business Rules page. Then, you can configure the rule by selecting the rule scenario for Rule for Automatic Hiring Configuration in Manage Data Onboarding Configuration.
Recruiting
Enable Enable Recruiting Business Rules in Admin Center Manage Recruiting Settings Business Rules.
A new setting in Manage Recruiting Settings Applicant Profile Settings called Enable Automatic Hiring for Recruiting activates this feature in Recruiting.
You can create a business rule using the scenario, Job Application: Trigger Automatic Hiring of Applicants in Configure Business Rules. You can then add a template-level rule for Rule for Automatic Hiring in Manage Rules in Recruiting Job Application to trigger the feature.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | ECT-220559 |
| Product | Employee Central Onboarding Recruiting |
| Module | Applicant Management Employee Data Onboarding Integration a |
| Feature | Business Rules Hire, Rehire, and T ermination Onboarding Applicant Management Applicant Status |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Customer configured |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | New |
| Major or Minor | Major |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 1H 2024 |
| Valid as Of | 2024-05-17 |
4. Email Address Validated By Default
Email addresses in Employee Central are now validated by default. We’ve removed the Activate Email Validation in scorecard setting that controlled the email address validation from the Company System and Logo Settings page.
Whenever there’s a change to email addresses, their formats are automatically checked. This enhancement improves data quality by preventing any invalid email addresses and saves configuration efforts.
What’s Changed
How It Looks Now
In the current version, the option Activate Email Validation in scorecard under Admin Center Company System and Logo Settings has been removed. The email address validation is now universally applied in Employee Central.
How It Looked Before
In the previous version, the option was off by default. Administrators had to manually enable it if they wanted to get the email address validated.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | ECT-218384 |
| Product | Employee Central |
| Module | Employee Data |
| Feature | Personal Information |
| Action | Recommended |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 1H 2024 |
| Valid as Of | 2024-05-17 |
5. New Diagnostic Tool for Employee Central Transactions
There is a new diagnostic tool in the system to help you solve configuration issues with HRIS elements in workflows as well as data saved in Manager Self-Service (MSS), Employee Self-Service (ESS), and Add New Hire (for Hire and Rehire) transactions when they are made using the Edit, History, or Take Action options.
This diagnostic tool provides separate sections for workflow details for HRIS elements as well as country/region-specific HRIS elements and a snapshot view of each processing stage in MSS, ESS, and Add New Hire transactions. Checking the snapshot view can help give you an idea at which stage of the processing the issue could have happened as well as the option to check the individual details.
Workflow Details
- Details about workflow approvers
- Email trigger information
- Each action such as workflow initiator/workflow approval/send back and who performed which action
- Values for selected Workflow ID, Workflow Configuration ID, Workflow Derivation Rule, and Escalation Configured have links that take you directly to corresponding details
Saving Changes in MSS/ESS//Add New Hire (for Hire/Rehire) from Edit/History/Take Action
- Gives a snaphsot view about each stage of the transaction, including changes from business rules, forward propagation, and so on
- Shows all the field level transaction details about the fields that were changed
- Enable tracing for 15 minutes to help find issuesWe have created a new Diagnotics Tracing Configuration MDF object for this new tool as well.
This new tool aims to help you solve configuration issues yourself quickly and efficiently without having to contact SAP Support.
Role-Based Permission Prerequisites
You have the Administrator Diagnostic Tool Diagnostics Tracing Configuration permission.
You have the Administrator Diagnostic Tool Workflows Diagnostics Data permission.
You have the Administrator Diagnostic Tool Centralized Services Diagnostics Data permission.
You have the Administrator Admin Center Permissions Access Diagnotic Tool permission.
What’s Changed
How It Looks Now
How It Looks Now
Technical Details
| Reference Number | ECT-223681 |
| Product | Employee Central |
| Module | Process Automation |
| Feature | Workflows Job Information Employee Central Compensation Personal Information Business Configuration |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Customer configured |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | New |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 1H 2024 |
| Valid as Of | 2024-05-17 |
Thanks & Regards,
Anipe Abraham,
Sr. #SAP #SuccessFactors Consultant | Employee Central | Employee Central Payroll | Recruitment Management l Onboarding | PMGM | Sap Hcm | Corporate Trainer.
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