Outlining Organizational Management (OM) Basics

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

Outline the setup and interfaces of the OM component
Outline the integration between OM and other components

Organizational Management (OM)

Examples of OM activities include the following:

Map the functional organizational structure (for example, department hierarchy) and the reporting structure of your enterprise to an organizational plan.
Analyze the current organizational plan based on the requirements of your organization, and plan workforce requirements and personnel costs accordingly.
Create additional organizational plans as planning scenarios to simulate new structures in the framework of business process reengineering.
Guarantee effective workflow management through access to the organizational plan.

User Interfaces in Organizational Management

OM includes the following user interfaces for editing structures and maintaining organizational plans:

Organization and Staffing
The Organization and Staffing interface enables you to create and edit organizational plans. It is the ideal tool for maintaining organizational plans on a daily basis.
Expert Mode
The interfaces in Expert Mode allow you to edit the properties of all objects in Organizational Management by using infotypes.
Simple Maintenance
The Simple Maintenanceinterface is ideal for creating and structuring a new organizational plan quickly.
General Structures
The General Structuresinterface allows you to edit organizational plans using different structures, including object types that you define yourself (such as teams).
Matrix
The Matrixinterface allows you to create and edit matrix structures. It enables you to map responsibilities that overlap in the system.

Manager Self-Service (MSS) is a part of the SAP Enterprise Portal and provides managers with various applications. The part that includes Human Resources contains reports and maintenance functions for managers.

MSS supports managers in their daily administrative and strategic tasks.

Integration of Organizational Management with Other Components

OM is an integral part of an SAP system. In some cases, OM must interface with other components to exploit its full capabilities.

The following table illustrates the components of OM:

Component	Description
Personnel Development	Enables you to plan and carry out training and job-related activities that provide professional development for your employees.
Learning Solution	Enables enterprises to organize and schedule training events and conventions.
Workflow	Automates business processes so that the right task is forwarded to the right person at the right time. This component is also used for approvals.
Enterprise Compensation Management	Includes all the functions required for the administration of compensation, such as carrying out a salary review.
Controlling	Enables you to monitor costs (for example, project costs). When you link cost centers with elements in the organizational plan, this enables direct integration with Controlling (CO).
Capacity Planning	Enables you to schedule persons based on their availability and qualifications to complete work for specific work centers.

Note

Integration between OM and Personnel Administration (PA) is discussed in the relevant unit of this course.

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