After spending hours creating an Organizational Structure, it is rather silly to recreate that for each environment you have for testing purposes. One simple solution to that vs doing an entire system company is to use a standard delivered tool from SAP. This tool could be used in several different way, we’ll get that into [...]

Out of the box functionality, you can type in comments through PA30 on some of the infotypes.

But how do you have this cool feature for other infotypes, such as custom infotypes or infotypes not automatically default out of the box?
You can! Very easy as the matter of fact. You can point your table to [...]

I came across a posting on SDN recently with a user confused with PS Grouping and ES Grouping in payroll. This is actually very simple to use.

Personnel Subareas for Primary Wage Type (PS Grouping - table V_001P_K) allows you to give a grouping to the combination of Personnel Area and Personnel Sub Area.

Employee [...]

The root of a sucessful ECM usage starts with budget management. Since the early version of compensation in SAP until now, the budget management had grown and become a fairly useful tool inside ECM.

What is budget management in ECM? Budget Management allows you to determine funds for an organizational structure for a particular compensation plan. [...]

I was browsing the other day and came across a nice list of commonly used transaction codes for HR.
Master Data PA10 - Personnel filePA20 - Display HR Master DataPA30 - Maintain HR Master DataPA40 - Personnel ActionPA41 - Change Hiring DataPA42 - Fast Data Entry for EventsPRMD - Maintain HR Master DataPRMF - Travel [...]

A few months ago, I had came across a pretty informative Payroll PU12 FAQ. Here are some of the questions and answers:

Why is an OR segment generated when only the name field was changed on the Personal Data infotype 0002?The OR segment containing organizational information is generated if a change is made to the name [...]

This step usually doesn’t happen too often as most company payroll area setup are fairly simple. They have one unified frequency of pay and not too much variation of it. However, there are companies who tends to be complex. Creating a payroll area to match up for each company code they have. So whenever a [...]

I came across a thread a few weeks ago on one of the SAP support forum asking on how to identify transaction code in certain IMG / SPRO nodes (SAP configuration area). It made me ponder a bit because I usually do the long route by typing SPRO and drilling down the IMG path. Knowing [...]

A couple of years ago I was on a project where they implemented HR, CRM, SRM, FI, and other modules in one large implementation. What made it interested is each of these modules sat as their own instance / system. So HR data is not on CRM or SRM environment.
What was useful is the [...]

Now how do you go about changing start date / effective date on an OM objects and their related infotypes easily. With this cool transaction code, you can. You can do it to one object at a time or multiples!
Navigate yourself to the menu path or use the transaction code RE_RHBEGDA0 (New start date)

As you [...]