Armed forces, police, and aid organizations require certain personnel to perform tasks or missions. Before you can provide the organizational elements with personnel, you must assign positions to the relevant force elements to define their authorized personnel and to trigger the relevant recruitment or assignment processes.
Given the D & S solution heavily relies upon industry best practice, we can assume that a majority of components to the personnel attributes are drawn from a classic SAP Position type object. Of course, there is D & S specific content augmented to achieve the desired functionality.
The classic central objects involved here are as follows:
- Name: The name identifies a position.
- Since the entry is time-dependent, you can create more than one entry. However, only one entry can be active at any time. If you activate a second entry, this automatically delimits the first entry to the day before the active entry starts.
- Specific Characteristics: The entries shown in the fields here correspond to the data you entered when you created the position.
- Vacancy: The Vacancy facet shows information about any open vacancies.
- Description: You can enter different types of descriptions, such as legal and technical descriptions that are defined by the subtype.
- Relationships:
- In the Organizational Structure section, you can assign a position to a force element.
- In the External Relationship section, you can assign a position to a force element with a wartime or peacetime relationship.
- Job:
- You assign a job to positions to provide a collective description of multiple positions with the same properties. The properties of a job are inherited by the assigned positions.
- Jobs can be assigned to positions even if these positions are assigned to reference force elements.
- Requirements: This object shows the qualifications for the position. In the two sections it contains, you can add additional qualifications and you can group the requirements that qualify the position under Qualification Block.
- Actual Personnel: On the Actual Personnel object, we can define the relationship between a position and a person. This is a display function only. The relationship is set by the HR department in the Personnel Administration component.
Now to look at the SAP Defense and Security specific components:
- Authorized Equipment: This object allows systems users to start materials management processes that provide personnel with the equipment they require and monitor current equipment levels. Within this component, Flexible Material Planning Objects (FMPOs) map the non-consumable goods (NCGs) required for the relevant position.
- Rank: Ranks classify a position from a military perspective.
- Sensitivity: You can maintain the grade of sensitivity at the position level on the Sensitivity facet.
- NATO:
- On the NATO facet, you can define the NATO-specific properties of a position.
- The position can only be filled by persons from the countries/regions defined in the NATO Rotation fields. You can enter a maximum of six countries/regions, but the system does not map these in any particular order.
- Operations and Exercise:
- The Operation/Exercise Relationship section displays the operational Force Element. You can also view the relationship type for the operational Force Element.
- In the Operation Rotation Assignment section, you can assign any existing operation rotation. You can only assign to the rotation assigned to the Force Element. This means that if the operation has two rotations, but only rotation 1 is assigned to the Force Element, rotation 2 for the position is not available.