This has been a debated discussion for awhile. When a person goes on international transfer (aka: country reassignment), will they get a new PERNR? The simple answer is yes! SAP has a internal hard check that does not allow the same pernr to be in multiple different countries.

With SAP version 4.7  extension II and above, SAP deliver a functionality called Management of Global Employees, a subset of Concurrent Employment functionality. This in itself introduces a whole new concept of tracking employees (see my help document of MGE on this website). With the concept of PERSON ID, it is a central ID now link to multiple PERNRs (also known as personnel assignments).

When a person goes on international transfer / country re-assignment, it is required by SAP for you to get a new personnel assignment number (PERNR). With that, in your configuration of personnel action, there is a check box flag to signify the action type is a country re-assignment.

When you flip this flag, only purpose it serves is when you run an action via PA40, it ask you to choose an action to put one record in withdrawn status and another to put in active status. In blunt put, terminate one and hire other.

When using this method, be prepare to have 3 personnel actions setup to handle this. One to be trigger via the PA40 and two to be trigger within PA40 transaction.

In short, when a person goes on international transfer, you will be required by SAP to introduce to him/her a new PERNR. You can still track them as one individual through the PA side using PERSON ID or through the OM side using the central person concept.

Now it comes back to the population question. Can I “NOT” have SAP force me to create a new PERNR when a person goes on international transfer / country re-assignment. The answer is also yes. You can refer to SAP OSS Note 116007 for further detail. However, if you focus on the last phrase from SAP, this is NOT the recommended option and SAP will NOT support you if a problem does occur.

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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 that in a bit.

SAP deliver a really neat tool called “Manual Transport Link”. You can access it via transaction SE38 and progam name RHMOVE30.

What this program does is allowing you to capture PD/OM objects and place it in a transport you can easily release and apply to other clients / systems.

To start, let say for example you want to transport organizational structure and all positions below it. WIth that, you will start with creating 1 transport containing all O objects. Specify the O objects, all for reporting period, and add it to the transport. To specifically capture the position, specify the evaluation path in the selection paramters for it to find the position and add that to the transport.

Do some trial and error testing of this in a sandbox environment with different selection variations to see how it operate. You might find the best combination that fit your needs.

I was at a SAP implementation with the production orgranizational structure was maintained in a DEV environment during the lifecycle of the project. Using this allows you to transports exactly how production structure will look like to all your environment. Thus easily replicating conversion cycles multiple times and cutting the time out from converting OM objects. Pretty neat huh?!

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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 V_T582A or go to the IMG via SPRO -> Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Customizing Procedures -> Infotypes -> Infotypes

Select the infotype you want to maintain and select “Text Allowed”. Whoa la!

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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 Subgroups for Primary Wage Type (ES Grouping – table V_503_G) similar to PS Grouping, allows you to group combination of Employee Group and Employee Sub Group.

These two grouping will be later used in a permissibility table “Define Wage Type Permissibility for each PS and ESG” (table V_511_B) The grouping value identify what position in the table V_511_B it should look at to determine permissibility.

So as you can see, if you specify the PS Grouping is 3, thus meaning in the permissibility table it should look at position 3 to find the value Blank, 1, or 2 to determine if the person is permissible to be using a particular wage type.

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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. The funds are then distributed across sub units and track in the ECM module through award process.

Some organization choose not to use the budget functionality of ECM, but it is highly recommended to do so. There are reports in both SAP and BI to support this functionality.

The first step is to generate the budget structure. You can either do that through the web BSP via “PECM_START_BDG_BSP – Start Budget Administration” or “PECM_GENERATE_BUDGET – Generate Budget from Organizational Hierarchy”. What this does is create the budget object (OTYPE ‘BU’ – Is Finance By) and have a relationship to the organizational unit via HRP1001. No monetary amount has been allocated yet.

Once the budget structure has been created, you can then allocate funds. You can either import it from PCP (Personal Cost Planning) functionality or manually allocate the funds accordingly. Some company will not even allocate any amount and let the amount show up as negative during planning to track spending. Either options will work.

After you are done with the allocation or lack there of, you can then release the budget structure to be use in the ECM module.

As you use this functionality more, you will either like it or hate it. While it is not extremely robust, it does serve the purpose. One enhancement you could do to this, is assist in the creation of the budget amount. This will take away the painful process of manually allocating a large structure for those who are not integrated with PCP.

One method to accomplish this is to use a standard delivered BADI allowing you to upload your own source of number from spreadsheet.

Another method is to use an ABAP program to generate the amount into infotype 1520. At a company I was at previously, we used this route in the old compensation management module (not ECM). The program will check for all eligible population, determine their annual salary amount and apply a standard percentage amount from program selection screen to determine starting budget.

Whatever method you use, having this budget management functionality available is an import part of ECM. Through the MSS tool, the manager can see how much money he/she has spent and are available. This will allow a more efficient and smarter compensation decision on the manager side.

Let me know your thoughts…

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I was browsing the other day and came across a nice list of commonly used transaction codes for HR.

Master Data
PA10 – Personnel file
PA20 – Display HR Master Data
PA30 – Maintain HR Master Data
PA40 – Personnel Action
PA41 – Change Hiring Data
PA42 – Fast Data Entry for Events
PRMD – Maintain HR Master Data
PRMF – Travel Expenses : Feature TRVFD
PRML – Set Country Grouping via Popup
PRMM – Personnel Events
PRMO – Travel Expenses : Feature TRVCO
PRMP – Travel Expenses : Feature TRVPA
PRMS – Display HR Master Data
PRMT – Update Match code
PS03 – Info type Overview
PS04 – Individual Maintenance of Info types

Time Management
PA51 – Display Time Data
PA53 – Display Time Data
PA61 – Maintain Time Data
PA62 – List Entry of Additional Data
PA63 – Maintain Time Data
PA64 – Calendar Entry
PA70 – Fast Data Entry
PA71 – Fast Entry of Time Data
PBAB – Maintain Vacancy assignments
PT01 – Create Work Schedule
PT02 – Change Work Schedule
PT03 – Display Work Schedule

Payroll
PC00 – Run Payroll
PC10 – Payroll menu USA
PE00 – Starts Transactions PE01 PE02 PE03
PE01 – Schemas
PE02 – Calculation Rules
PE03 – Features
PE04 – Create functions and Operations
PE51 – HR form editor
PRCA – Payroll Calendar
PRCT – Current Settings
PRCU – Printing checks USA
PRD1 – Create DME
SM31 – Maintain Table
SM12 – Locked Secessions
TSTC – Table Look up
SPRO – IMG
SE16 – Data Browser (Table Reports)
PP03 – PD Tables
PPOME – Change Org Unit
PO13 – Maintain Positions
PO03 – Maintain Jobs

Benefits
PA85 – Benefits – Call RPLBEN11
PA86 – Benefits – Call RPLBEN07
PA87 – Benefits – Call RPLBEN09
PA89 – COBRA Administration
PA90 – Benefits Enrollment
PA91 – Benefits – Forms
PA92 – Benefits Tables – Maintain
PA93 – Benefits Tables – Display
PA94 – Benefits – Access Reporting Tree
PA95 – Benefits IMG – Jump to Views
PA96 – Benefits reporting
PA97 – Salary Administration – Matrix
PA98 – Salary Administration
PA99 – Compensation Admin – rel. Changes
PACP – HR-CH : Pension fund, interface

General Reporting
PM00 – Menu for HR Reports
PM01 – Dialogs in HR – Create Custom info types
PRFO – Standard Form
PSVT – Dynamic Tools Menu
PAR1 – Flexible Employee Data
PAR2 – Employee List

Organizational Management
PPOM – Change org Unit
PO03 – Maintain Jobs
P013 – Maintain Position
PO10 – Maintain Organizational Unit
PP01 – Maintain Plan Data (menu-guided)
PP02 – Maintain Plan Data (Open)
PP03 – Maintain Plan Data (Event-guided)
PP05 – Number Ranges
PP06 – Number Ranges Maintenance HR Data
PP07 – Tasks/Descriptions
PP69 – Choose Text for Organizational Unit
PP90 – Setup Organization
PP01 – Change Cost Center Assignment
PP02 – Display Cost Center Assignment
PP03 – Change Reporting Structure
PP04 – Display Reporting Structure
PP05 – Change Object indicators (O/S)
PP06 – Change Object indicators OS
PPOA – Display Menu Interface (with dyn.)
PPOC – Create Organizational Unit
PPOM – Maintain Organizational Plan
PPOS – Display Organizational Plan
PQ01 – Events for Work Center
PQ02 – Events for Training Program
PQ03 – Events for Job
PQ04 – Events for Business Event Type
PQ06 – Local Events
PQ07 – Resource Events
PQ08 – Events for External Person
PQ09 – Events for Business Event Group
PQ10 – Events for Organizational Unit
PQ11 – Events for Qualification
PQ12 – Resource Type Events
PQ13 – Events for Position
PQ14 – Events for Task
PQ15 – Events for Company
PSO5 – PD : Administration Tool
PSOA – Work Center Reporting
PSOC – Job Reporting
PSOG – Org Mgmt General Reporting
PSO1 – Tools Integration PA-PD
PSOO – Organizational Unit Reporting
PSOS – Position Reporting
PSOT – Task Reporting

Recruitment
PB10 – Initial Entry of applicant master data
PB20 – Display applicant master data
PB30 – Maintain applicant master data
PB40 – Applicant events
PB50 – Display applicant actions
PB60 – Maintain Applicant Actions
PB80 – Evaluate Vacancies
PBA0 – Evaluate Advertisements
PBA1 – Applicant Index
PBA2 – List of applications
PBA3 – Applicant vacancy assignment list
PBA4 – Receipt of application

All efforts goes to: http://www.sap-img.com/human/sap-hr-transaction-codes.htm

While this is a pretty large list, it by no means cover all transaction codes available for HCM.

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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 on Infotype 0002. The ENAME and SNAME fields on the OR segment are derived from the name field on IT0002. A change to the Form of Address field on Infotype 0002 will also cause an OR segment to be generated as this is considered a “change” to the name field as well.
  
• Why do some IDoc segments contain chevron (<) signs in certain fields?
  The chevron sign (<) signifies data within the segments is delimited or stopped. For specific segments it is necessary to generate one segment showing the original (old) infotype values and another with the changed (new) infotype values in order for the payroll service providers to know what needs to end on their side and what needs to be set up as new.
• Why was an IDoc segment generated when no data was changed on an infotype?
  A segment might appear in which fields contains pound signs when a field or fields were added to the segment definition as part of an LCP or an OSS note. The next time the export is processed after the LCP or note has been applied to the system, the segment will be generated containing pound signs. A way around this would be to run a “baseline” after the update which should not be sent to the payroll service provider. This is done by running the export with the “All data, not diff’s only” option without “Update”.
• Are future dated master data changes exported?
  Master data changes with a future BEGDA date are not exported until the effective date falls within the pay period being exported. An infotype with a future ENDDA date (other than 12/31/9999) is exported twice. Once when the change is first made to the infotype and again when the ENDDA date falls within the pay period being exported..
• How can a wage type be allocated to a cost center that is different than either the home cost center or normal fixed cost center distribution?
  A wage type may be designated to a specific cost center as an override to either the home cost center or to normal fixed cost center distribution allocations through the use of the cost center allocation override feature available on infotypes 0015, 2001, 2005 and 2010. The override cost center associated with the wage type is contained in the KOSTL field on the wage type segment (MW).
• Why does the IDoc contain two of the same segments for some changes and for others only one?
  For infotypes that are associated with a time constraint, information from the “delimited” infotype is generated in one segment while the new information is generated in another. For infotypes that are not time constrained, only one segment is generated.
• A reference ID number was entered in the REFID field on Infotype 491 but this value did not appear in the KY segment of the IDoc. Why?
  In order for the REFID value to appear in the KY segment, feature OTVSN must be changed (and regenerated) to allow for this field to be included in the IDoc. The default is blank which means this field is not included on the KY segment.
• A master data change was made with an effective date of a prior pay period. Will this change produce a retro-calculation to occur to a wage type?
  With the Master Data Export version no retro-calculations are generated but the new wage type value is processed. If a prior-pay-period master data change is made that could result in a retro-calculation, the amount of the retro-calculation may be entered as a one-time payment on Infotype 0015 or entered directly into the service provider’s system.

More could be found on SAP Help Site.

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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 new company is onboard, a new payroll area occur, this is when this help become useful.

To setup a new payroll area is fairly simple. Guide yourself in the SPRO / IMG to Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Organizational Data -> Create Payroll Area.

You’ll might be thinking, why are there two “Create Payroll Area”? If you have been using SAP long enough you will tend to notice this is a common thing. As to why, no freaken idea.

The first one of the two is where you will be creating the actual Payroll Area, you want to start there first.

As normal with any SAP tables, you have a two character short key and a description. If you do SAP Payroll, this is where you would flag if this is used for payroll processing. Otherwise, leave it blank.

In the next Create Payroll Area node, this is where you will link the period parameter and date modifier. Assumping the date modifier and period parameter hasn’t changed. If they did, you would need to configure that as well.

You can find their configuration under the IMG step Payroll -> Payroll: {country} -> Basic Settings -> Payroll Organization -> Define period modifiers

To default the payroll area in infotype 0001, you can “Check Default Payroll Area” in that node. Depending on how your company organize the defaulting, you can follow the feature tree and to setup the default.

The next step is to create the payroll control record for it, if you been maintaining it in the past you would know it is transaction PA03.

That is basically it when you want to utilize a new payroll area.

Until next time!

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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 some of the key transaction codes (TX Codes / T-Codes) would be helpful to place on your favorites to save time.

The method to find this out is very easy. You would first need to activate “IMG Activity” in the Additional Information menu on the Display IMG

Using the information displayed (as shown above) from activating the additional information of IMG activity, you can use SE16 or SE16N and query off a table CUS_IMGACH

When you query the CUS_IMGACT table using the IMG Activity name, one of the return value from that table is Transaction Code found under the TCODE field.

Now you can either type in the transaction code each time you would like to visit that node or easily add it to your favorite to be used. Cool stuff huh!

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