Personnel Management

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, [...]

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 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 [...]

During an SAP implementation, conversion program will occur to load OM and PA data separatedly as their own infotypes / objects. But there is a missing connection between OM / PA through relationships and other tables that might not get loaded via conversion. With that, we have several RHINTE programs to assist in this matter. [...]

In the old days, determine length of service was simple. You just need to maintain a feature called ENTRY. This feature will determine to look at which date type on infotype 0041 or to use infotype 0000 action date as the hire date. A standard function module HR_ENTRY_DATE will read of this feature and life [...]