Describing Key SAP SuccesFactors Compensation 1H 2025 Features and Enhancements

AI-assisted writing is available in new areas, making it more accessible to enhance content creation.

AI-assisted writing is now available in the Mentoring feature of the Career Development module.

For Onboarding, you can now use the AI-assisted writing tool to compose messages for:

• The Nudge Assignee Quick Action on the home page.
• The Nudge button in new hire tasks on the New Hire Details page.

For the Recruiting module, the AI-assisted writing tool is available for all fields that support the Rich Text Editor, such as:

• Job Description fields (With or without Job Profile)
• Offer Letter
• Schedule Interview
• Contact Candidate
• Job Posting (Agency comments)
• All E-mail functionalities

AI-assisted writing is now available for the following features in Compensation:

• Plan Instruction for variable pay templates.
• Compensation statement editor.

In Job Profile Builder, you can use the AI-assisted writing tool for enhancing the description and summary of job profiles.

AI-assisted writing helps to enhance employee experience, optimize productivity, and improve the overall quality of the organization's business communication.

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You've enabled the AI Services Administration → Assisted Writing option in Admin Center.

For Translation: You’ve also enabled the AI Services Administration → Assisted Writing → Translation option in Admin Center.

Administrators have the Administrator → Manage AI Capabilities → AI Services Administration permission.

Employees have the User Permissions → AI Access → Assisted Writing permission.

In the current version of Mentoring, both participants and administrators can use AI-assisted writing to enhance the text they provide. Here's a screenshot of an example when mentors edit mentoring preferences.

In the current version of Onboarding, the AI-assisted writing feature is available for the Nudge Quick Action on the home page and for the Nudge button for new hire activities on the New Hire Details page.

In the current version of Recruiting, the AI-assisted writing feature is available for all Rich Text Editor fields.

In the current version of Compensation, you can use the AI-assisted writing in Plan Instructions for variable pay templates as shown in the screen shown in the background. In the foreground is a screenshot from the statement editor where the AI-assisted writing option has been used to generate text.

In the current version of Job Profile Builder, you can use the AI-assisted writing feature for enhancing the job descriptions and job summary of job profiles.

In the previous production version, these AI-assisted writing adoptions were not available.

AI-Assisted Writing

Premium AI Features in SAP SuccessFactors

We now have additional standard guideline fields for use as columns when designing your Compensation worksheets.

The new guideline field IDs are extraGuideline, extra2Guideline, and promoGuideline for use with standard fields extra, extra2, and promo respectively. Now, when planners see warnings or errors related to guideline rules for the fields extra, extra2, and promo they are able to refer to the guidelines for these fields and resolve the warnings or errors. The new guideline field behavior is similar to the other existing guideline fields, for example, those for merit or lumpsum.

The feature is from Customer Influence Idea 278924Information published on SAP site.

In the current version, you can now add guideline columns for extra, extra2, and promo fields.

In the previous version, the ability to add guideline columns for these fields didn't exist.

Standard Columns in the Compensation Plan Template

Adding and Deleting Standard Columns in the Compensation Plan Template

You can now publish compensation data to Employee Central without enabling the payComponentNonRecurring HRIS element in your business configuration.

The feature is from Customer Influence Idea 339788 .

You can monitor the publish of compensation data to Employee Central by monitoring the Job Type Publish EC Data for Template in the job scheduler.

In the current version, you can publish compensation data to Employee Central with payComponentNonRecurring (PCNR) HRIS element disabled.

In the previous version, in order to publish compensation data to Employee Central, the PCNR element had to be enabled.

Guidelines When Publishing Data to Employee Central

We've made improvements to the Planner Audit feature for your compensation, variable pay, or total compensation templates.

The enhancements are:

• Up to 25 fields can now be set up to be auditable.
• The salary, bonus, stock, and variable notes fields are supported by the Planner Audit feature for worksheets, executive review, as well as export and import of data.

These enhancements make the Planner Audit feature more flexible and useful to your company.

If Planner Audit is enabled, you set up fields for your compensation template and also make them auditable from Compensation Home → <Template Name> → Plan Setup → Design Worksheet.

In the current version, you can set up to 25 custom fields to be auditable for the Planner Audit feature and can set up the notes fields also for Planner Audit.

In the previous version, you could only have up to 10 custom fields auditable, and Planner Audit wasn't available for the notes fields.

Planner Audit for Fields

List of Standard Fields Not Supported by Planner Audit

You now have two additional custom fields to use for guidelines when creating guidelines, guideline rules, and guideline modeling for Compensation, Variable Pay, and Total Compensation templates.

The feature is from Customer Influence Idea 273356. The increase in custom fields for guideline criteria gives you the ability to handle complex requirements using a single template, thus easing administration. This enhancement is especially useful when your requirements are for a global implementation.

In the current version, you have up to five custom fields that you can use for guideline criteria.

Previously, you could only use up to three custom fields as criteria when configuring guidelines for guideline rules.

Editing Guidelines

Creating Guidelines in Variable Pay

You're now able to exclude users who are planners when they have compensation and variable pay forms when running a DRTM Master Data Purge.

You can access this option from the Data Retention Management tool when creating or editing a DRTM Master Data Purge request. This setting is checked by default. You can opt out of the option by unchecking the check box for the option.

This enhancement gives you the option to exclude planners who have a compensation or variable pay form for the DRTM Master Data Purge request type similar to the Purge Inactive User request.

In the current version, when setting up a DRTM Master Data Purge, you can use the check box for User has compensation or variable pay form as well as the User belongs to an incomplete compensation or variable pay form option.

In the previous version, the User belongs to an incomplete compensation or variable pay form was the only option available for the DRTM Master Data Purge request for compensation or variable pay forms.

DRTM Master Data Purge

Compensation Data Included in the DRTM Master Data Purge

Homepage Cards are now deleted from view when the Rewards Statements associated with the cards were recalled. This deletion of the homepage happens if the statements are recalled automatically due to routing of the template or if the rewards statements are recalled manually.

The feature is from Customer Influence Idea 318281.

You recall rewards statements by from Compensation Home → <Template Name> → Complete Compensation Cycle → Rewards Statements → Recall Statements.

In the current version, homepage cards associated with recalled rewards statements are deleted.

In the previous version, the homepage cards associated with recalled rewards statements weren't deleted.

Recalling Personal Rewards Statements

Sometimes, your company must move completed compensation worksheets back to in progress status. In the previous version, if you had generated the reward statements already, the system automatically recalls the statements. You can now set up your system to prevent this automatic recall of the statements when the worksheets are moved back to in progress.

The setting works for compensation, variable pay, and total compensation worksheets.

This ability to prevent recall of rewards statements if needed provides you with flexibility when working with reward statements. It supports business scenarios where recall of all statements upon change to compensation worksheets isn't desirable.

Go to Compensation Home → Actions for All Plans → Company Settings. In the Compensation and Variable Pay section, note the setting for Enable recall of statements when completed worksheets are routed back to in progress status. The setting is checked by default. You can uncheck the check box if you don't want your reward statements to be recalled upon change in status of the worksheets from completed to in progress.

You can usually see the numbers of reward statements generated for completed worksheets from the Compensation Home → Complete Compensation Cycle → Rewards Statements → Manage Statement Templates screen. When compensation worksheets are moved back to in-progress status, the number of employees assigned to a statement template, or for whom statements have been generated only shows the number for completed worksheets. Verify the existence of a Rewards Statement from the People Profile for an employee in such a scenario.

In the current version, you can prevent recall of the associated compensation reward statements when the worksheet is moved from completed to in progress status.

In the previous version, when you moved worksheets from completed to in progress status, all reward statements associated with the worksheet were recalled.

Recalling Personal Rewards Statements

You're now able to display Employee Central data on the compensation statements without needing to include that field on the compensation plan. The enhancement is supported by compensation, variable pay, as well as combined statement templates.

With this release, Employee Central directly on the statement template come with the data on the following caveats:

Supported Employee Central Categories:

• Job Information
• Compensation Information
• Employment Details

Supported Data types:

• Date
• Boolean
• String
• Localized
• Translatable
• Legacy Picklists

• Number
• Amount
• Percent
• Localized values from MDF Picklists and other data types from Configure Object Definition.

• MDF Picklists - While you see the MDF picklists in the Add Field dropdown selector, only the default value is supported.

• Root Base objects can't be selected. Only the child fields under the object can be added. Selection of the base object isn't possible since in this scenario, the operator on the edit screen can be related to many data types.
• In case an Employee Central field with a tree structure is added, only the final node is localized. For example, when adding Division.Label, only Label is localized in the statement editor.
• The values of the Employee Central or MDF fields appear as blanks in the preview of the statement template or the downloaded PDF. Only the labels of these fields are displayed.
• Upon import of an exported template from a source instance to another instance, the path of the field in the statement editor displays the path from the source instance.
• The condition operators on the edit screen are the same as those for string data type for localized & translatable data types

When creating compensation statement templates, if you wanted to show fields from Employee Central on the statement, the only way to accomplish this was to include the field on the compensation plan and then pull that data onto the statement template. This added the overhead of maintaining the field on the template. With this enhancement, you can now directly link the Employee Central field to the statement template. Also, the compensation plan is less complex as Employee Central fields not required for the plan template can be excluded. The enhancement also allows you to change the statement template even after the compensation planning process has begun without disrupting the process.

In the current version, you can choose between Plan and Employee Central and add relevant fields to the statement template.

In the previous version, when configuring your compensation templates, you use the Add Compensation Field button to add fields from the compensation plan template to the statement template.

Modifying Statement Templates

You can now configure your Personal Compensation Statement Generation notification email template to include HTML. The email also includes a header, a footer, and your company logo. Also, you can create separate email templates based on different compensation plan templates.

The logo used by the email notification is the one set in the Company System and Logo Settings tool.

The feature is from Customer Influence Idea 281800.

In the current version, when editing the personal compensation statement generation email template, you can base the template on a specific compensation or variable pay plan template.

You can also have the company logo on the email as is seen in the image where the company logo is the header and footer of the email

In the previous version, you were unable to create multiple email templates based on different form templates.

Setting Up Email Notifications

Creating a Custom Reward Statement Email Template

Enabling Compensation Statement Notifications

We've added validation of the template code when importing your custom templates as an XSL in the statement editor. Also, you can now preview the PDF for rewards statements when you work on the statement templates in the editor.

When you go to import an XSL file in the statement editor template from the Add Template → from an Import File → XSL screen, the template is now validated. You're unable to proceed with the import in case the file isn't a valid XSL template. In the previous version, there was limited validation of the XSL file and a file with errors may be imported.

We're introducing a new Download Sample PDF action. You can use this option to view the final appearance of the PDF statements before you generate them for your employees. This option is available for custom as well as standard rewards statement templates. We've included this option along with the options of Export, Delete, and Preview in a new column of Actions to the far right in the statement editor. The options now appear as Export Statement Template, Preview Sample HTML, and Delete Statement Template respectively with their function the same as in the previous version.

In the previous version, the three options appeared as columns with icons.

This enhancement reduces errors in your Rewards Statements and provides opportunities to know and correct the statement template before generating rewards statements.

Adding Compensation Statement Templates