SuccessFactors Employee Central H2 2023 , Release provides exciting innovations across SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central H2 2023 that can help you transform your HR operations, increase employee engagement, and deliver results.
Don’t miss out SuccessFactors Employee Central H2 2023 on all the great innovations and enhancements. Here are a few key updates you should consider for SuccessFactors Employee Central
H2 – 2023 Release Schedule
- Preview Release – October 20, 2023
- Production Release – November 17, 2023
1. Add to Transport Bundle in Employee Central
You can add Business Configuration UI configurations and Foundation Objects to a bundle and transport them using Configuration Transport Center.
| Feature | Where? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Business Configuration | In the View page of the HRIS Element in Business Configuration UI, choose Add to Transport Bundle, under the Take Action dropdown. | You can add HRIS Elements, HRIS Actions or Employee Profile Elements to a bundle to transport data to a target system using Configuration Transport Center. |
| Foundation Objects | In the Manage Organization, Pay and Job Structures page, search for the foundation object (for example, Location). In the Take Action dropdown, choose Add to Transport Bundle. | You can transport data of Legacy Foundation Objects using Configuration Transport Center. |
We’ve added this enhancement in the Business Configuration UI and Foundation Data Objects page to eliminate manual configuration efforts in the paired target system.
Role-Based Permission Prerequisites
You have the Administrator >> Manage Foundation Objects >>Transport Legacy Foundation Data.
You have the Administrator >> Configuration Transport Center >> Access to transport configurations.
What’s Changed
How It Looks Now
Technical Details
| Reference Number | ECT-224492 |
| Product | Employee Central |
| Module | Process Automation |
| Feature | Business ConfigurationConfiguration Transport Center |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | New |
| Major or Minor | Major |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 2H 2023 |
| Valid as Of | 2023-11-17 |
2. Employee Central Quick Actions for Employee and Manager Self-Services
You can now define Employee Central Quick Actions using templates for commonly used Employee Self-Service and Manager Self-Services.
A template allows you to combine the relevant fields from multiple data models for the same base entity that are required for a specific use case as well as limit the number of fields shown to the user to the ones relevant for a given use case. For each predelivered use case, you can create up to 5 templates. Each Quick Action allows a definiton of 5 standard and custom fields (including country/region-specific fields) in total, as well as the effective date field.
Here are the supported use cases:
- Change Chosen Name
- Change Contract End Date
- Change Cost Center
- Change Job
- Change Legal Name
- Change Location
- Change Probation
- Change Pronouns
- Change Working Time
- Promotion
- Transfer
- View Cost Center
- View Job
- View Legal Name
- View Location
- View Marital Status
Once you have set up the templates and set the permissions, they are available for use from the following locations:
- Web Application:
- To view or change their own information, an employee selects the new Manage My Data quick action on the home page.
- To view or change information for their reports, a manager selects the Manage My Team quick action on the home page.
- People Profile Actions
- Quickcard Employee Details Show Actions and Links
Existing configurations for your business processes are accepted by the system, for example, for workflow derivation or event reason derivation.
For business rule handling, the system executes onChange rules for target fields, even if they are not visible in the UI.
The system also ensures that the data model field attribute Visibility cannot be changed from View to Edit or the Mandatory attribute cannot be changed from Yes to No or the reverse.
The templates simplify the Manager and Employee Self-Service experience by providing guidance and hiding complexity, since the amount of fields displayed are reduced to meet the use-case-specific needs.
Role-Based Permission Prerequisites
You have the Administrator Permissions >> Manage Business Configuration >> Employee Central Quick Actions permission to configure the template..
You have the User Permissions Employee Central Quick Actions permission for each template. Permissions must be granted to the target user group for each template created.What’s Changed
Template Configuration for Use Case
How It Looks Now
Use Case in the Home Page
How It Looks Now
Technical Details
| Reference Number | ECT-216101 |
| Product | Employee Central Platform |
| Module | Employee Data Platform |
| Feature | Job Information Personal Information Home Page People Profile Quickcards Joule |
| Action | Recommended |
| Enablement | Customer configured |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | New |
| Major or Minor | Major |
| Software Version | 2H 2023 |
| Valid as Of | 2023-11-17 |
3.Enhancements in Business Configuration
SAP introduced new validations and general enhancements to improve the consistency of the Business Configuration UI.
| Duplicate combination entries in HRIS Sync Mapping | We’ve added a validation message to notify you that you cannot have duplicate combination entries in the HRIS Sync Mapping sections in Business Configuration.For example, you cannot save your changes if the combination of Standard Field and Entity Type already exists in HRIS Sync Mapping: Standard Field section. | |
| Mandatory Fields in Employee Profile in Business Configuration | We’ve added a validation message to notify you that the fields Locale and Pattern are now mandatory in Field Display Format under Employee Profile in Business Configuration. | |
SAP added these validations in Business Configuration to increase the consistency and quality of the configuration.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | ECT-224413 |
| Product | Employee Central |
| Module | Process Automation |
| Feature | Business Configuration |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Software Version | 2H 2023 |
| Valid as Of | 2023-11-17 |
4.Enhancements in Imports
There are a few general enhancements to improve the import process in Employee Central.
| Scheduled Job Manager | You can now open the Scheduled Job Manager in a new tab on the Import Employee Data page. It previously loaded in the same tab. | |
| Enable Compound Deletion | Previously, the Enable Compound Delete setting was only available in Provisioning.We have changed the name of the setting to Enable Compound Deletion and the setting is now also available in the Manage Employee Central Settings Others page.This feature is used to collectively remove employee data imported into the system with multiple entities. The following entities are currently supported: Job Relationships, Pay Component Non-Recurring, Addresses, Email Information, Phone Information, National ID Information. | |
Technical Details
| Reference Number | ECT-215236 |
| Product | Employee Central |
| Module | Process Automation |
| Feature | Data Import and Export |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Software Version | 2H 2023 |
| Valid as Of | 2023-11-17 |
5.Enhancements to Employee Central Rules
sap made a few changes to working with rules in Employee Central.
| Cross-Entity Rules | You can now update specific records on target entities such as Recurring Pay Components and Job Relationships using model-based cross-entity rules with Centralized services.This change is applicable only when the target entities that need to be updated are part of the payload. If the target entity is not part of the payload, then a random record might be considered.Previously, using model-based rules for these target entities resulted in errors as a random record was updated even when these target entities were part of the payload. | |
| Metadata Properties for Event Reason Derivation Rules | When creating business rules using the Event Reason Derivation rule scenario for the Job Information Model and Compensation Information Model base objects, there are changes to the metadata properties.You can now set the Event Reason to Value only.You can’t set metadata properties Required and Visibility in the Then statement.The Then actions have been restricted to Set only.NoteIf you’ve created rules with unsupported actions, we recommend that you modify them and use Set and Value to add data to the event-reason field.In the previous version, you could set the Required and Visibility metadata for rules although they don’t have any functional impact on rule implementation. You could also choose Then actions such as Create, Delete, Execute, and Add To. | |
SAP made these changes to ensure correctness and reduce configuration errors in business rules.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | ECT-217858 |
| Product | PlatformEmployee Central |
| Module | Process Automation |
| Feature | Business Rules |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Software Version | 2H 2023 |
| Valid as Of | 2023-11-17 |
6.Workflow Auto-Delegation by Groups
Users can now delegate their workflows by groups, if they don’t want to delegate them all to one person.
To take advantage of the new enhancement, you define workflow groups in Manage Data, by bundling similar or related workflow requests into groups. Employees can then choose these groups and appoint a delegatee for each of them when setting up auto-delegation through the Delegate My Workflows quick action. Likewise, HR admins can use these groups when setting up auto-delegation on behalf of other employees. Users can appoint delegatees for up to three groups
The Delegate My Workflows Dialog, with New Option to Delegate by Workflow Groups
With this enhancement, your organization has a more organized approach towards workflow delegation and your users have the flexibility to appoint multiple delegatees to take care of their requests.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | ECT-118367 |
| Product | Employee Central |
| Module | Process Automation |
| Feature | Workflows |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Customer configured |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | New |
| Major or Minor | Major |
| Software Version | 2H 2023 |
| Valid as Of | 2023-11-17 |
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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