Employee Central helps business leaders and HR personnel grow the enterprise through an in-depth look into human capital metrics and the overall health of the organization. A pre-packaged analytic framework allows organizations to answer critical human capital questions that affect business results.
SAP SuccessFactors provides pre-delivered standard reports (also referred to as report templates) that are available in Advanced Reporting in Employee Central. This lesson provides a quick overview of the reports.
You can copy and adapt these reports according to your company's needs. The resulting data can also be easily exported and reused in other tools or applications, such as Microsoft Excel.
Advanced reports can be roughly classified according to the following categories:
- Benefits
- Compensation, for example, Advances Overview, recurring and non-recurring pay history, and Alternative Cost Distribution
- Employment information, such as Employee Register, Employment Changes, Headcount and FTEs, New Hires, Terminated Employment, and so on
- Payroll, for example, Payroll Results report
- Personal information such as Challenged Employees, Dependents, and contact information
- Position management, for example, Position Details and Position Overview
- Time-off reports such as Absence Overview, Time Account Overview, and Time Account Snapshot
- Workflow information
Note
Editing of the EC Advanced Reporting Standard Reports is out of scope for this appendix. For more information on using the Advanced Reporting editor, including editing existing reports, please review course HR882: SAP SuccessFactors Reporting Tools and Administration.
How to Access Standard Reports?
Once the standard reports have been added to the system, they can be accessed via Report Center.
Only individuals that had the reports shared and provided appropriate permissions to the data will have access to one or more of these reports.
Examples of Standard Reports
There are over 80 available standard reports available from SAP SuccessFactors. Not all reports apply to all customers. You can review the scope and purpose of each standard report to determine the need for the report as is, or if it might need to be customized to meet your organization's needs.
The table below lists a few examples of reports. For a full list of reports available, please review the document Employee Central Advanced Reporting: Standard Reports available on the SAP Help Portal.
| Report Name | Report Description |
|---|---|
| Birthday List | Birthday of employees in the company |
| Job Assignments | Current job information of employees in the company |
| Employee Changes | Overview of job event changes during a selected reporting period |
| Employee Contact | Contact information for each employee |
| Work Eligibility | Legal Status information of employees |
| Headcount and FTEs | Total number of employees under employee type, department, and location |
| Age Range Report | Overview of the age distribution of employees within the organizational units of a company, separated by gender |
Implementing Standard Reports
If your instance does not contain the EC standard reports, then they need to be loaded and configured in the instance. This is typically handled by either the implementation consultant team or an individual that is knowledgeable in both Employee Central and the Reporting tools.
Each report must be imported, validated, updated as required, and then tested. This is because the EC Standard Reports are generated from a "best-fit" scenario, which means they will typically include the more commonly configured objects and data in Employee Central. However, each EC implementation is unique to the customer, so configuration changes can and do result in the report not working when initially loaded.
SAP SuccessFactors groups their reports into technical categories. These categories define the likelihood the report needs to be modified to work correctly (ease of implementation). Additionally, the reports are bundled by these categories for download from the SAP Help Portal.
- Basic: Subset of standard reports which are used by all Employee Central customers and which can be easily implemented
- Advanced: Subset of best practices and templates which need to be adjusted according to the specific needs of each customer
- Country-specific: Subset of country-specific reports, which are listed per country
The SAP Help Portal contains the content and documentation required to implement the standard reports. Besides the templates for downloading, the following key documents reside on the SAP Help Portal:
- Employee Central Advanced Reporting: Standard Reports
- Employee Central Standard Report: Templates for Advanced Reporting
- Advanced Reporting - Implementing Standard Report Templates
- Employee Central Advanced Reporting: Technical Guide
- Overview of the Advanced Reporting Standard Reports Available
- Consolidated list of report templates
- Guide on the procedure of installing, validating, and testing report templates
- A detailed description of report template construction and schema, critical to validating and updating existing reports