Describing key SAP SuccessFactors Succession Management 2H 2025 Features and Enhancements

The Succession talent card and both the legacy and latest People Profile now show an employee's nominations from all their employments, including nominations to positions (or incumbents) and talent pool nominations.

When you've selected the admin setting Show person-based nominations for employees with global assignments or concurrent employments users with proper permissions can view all nomination records of an employee.

For example, Carla Grant has two employments: one as an Administrative Assistant and the other as a Human Resources Analyst. As shown in the following screenshots, when the person-based view is not enabled, only nominations in the selected employment, Administrative Assistant, are displayed on her Succession talent card and People Profile. When the feature is enabled, both employments' nominations are displayed.

This enhancement provides a comprehensive view of nomination information for employees with multiple employments.

• Global Assignment or Concurrent Employment is enabled.
• The setting Show person-based nominations for employees with global assignments or concurrent employments is selected in Admin Center→Nominations Setup.

• To enable the feature, you must have the Administrator Permissions→Manage Succession→Succession Managementpermission.
• To view a person's nominations to positions or incumbents, users must have the User Permissions→Succession Planners→Succession Planning Permission permission for at least one employee.
• To view a person's talent pool nominations, users must have the following permissions:
  • User Permissions→Miscellaneous Permissions→Talent Pool→View Current
  • User Permissions→Succession Planners→View Talent Pool Nominations for the currently selected employment of the person. To view talent pool nominations from all the employments, make sure the target population includes all employments of the person.

Showing Person-Based Nominations on Succession Talent Card and People Profile

Users can now add Foundation Objects as filters to narrow down the positions displayed in the Position Tile view.

If you've configured a setting to include Foundation Objects in filters and have added Foundation Object fields as searchable fields to the Position object, those Foundation Objects will show up as available filters in the Position Tile view.

Regardless of which fields of a Foundation Object you make searchable, the Position Tile View displays the Foundation Object itself as a filter. For example, whether you add location.name orlocation.externalCode, users see the Location filter. If you add both location.name and location.externalCode, only one Location filter is displayed.

This enhancement enables users to filter position tiles with more pre-configured options, providing a more consistent experience in searching for positions.

• The setting Include Generic Objects and Foundation Objects in filters in the Position Tile view is selected in Admin Center→Succession Settings.
• This setting was previously used to include Generic Objects only and is now expanded to cover Foundation Objects as well. If you've already enabled this setting, Foundation Object-type filters are automatically available in the Position Tile view.

In the current version, Foundation Objects can be used to filter position tiles. In the following screenshot, the user adds three Foundation Object-type filters: Pay Grade, Zone, and Location. When they choose the Location filter, the dialog for selecting locations pops up.

In the previous version, Foundation Object-type filters were not supported in the Position Tile view.

Configuring Filter Options for Position Tile View

You've enabled the Suggested Successors feature.

Enabling Suggested Successors

List of Role-Based Permissions

• (For the MDF or legacy position-based nomination method) Sort Succession Org Chart by position title is selected in Admin Center→Org Chart Configuration→Succession org chart.
• (For the role-person nomination method) Sort Succession Org Chart by employee title is selected in Admin Center→Org Chart Configuration→Succession org chart.

To enable this feature, you must have the Administrator Permissions→Manage System Properties→Org Chart Configuration permission.

Sorting Succession Org Chart by Position Title or Employee Title

You've selected the Include inactive users in target population of talent pool nominations permissions option under Admin Center→Nominations Setup.

You have the Administrator Permissions→Manage Succession→Succession Management permission.

Managing Talent Pool Nomination Permissions

Leveraging generative AI capabilities, succession planners can now gain insights into the successors who are recommended based on their skills, competencies, and work experience.

When you've enabled the Suggested Successors feature, you can further enable the AI-Assisted Successor Recommendation feature and configure the criteria and weights used in the recommendation. The default configuration assigns weights of 50% to "skills and competencies" and 50% to "work experience", as shown in the following screenshot:

If you choose to include both "skills and competencies" and "work experience", generative AI uses the following data to recommend successors:

• Position-related job families, job roles, and job profiles in Job Profile Builder
• Skills and competencies in the Growth Portfolio
• Job information and external work experience in People Profile

In the Succession Org Chart or the Position Tile view, users can access the feature when they open a position card and select the Add Successor button. The feature is located under the area for manually searching for candidates. By selecting the Generate button, users can view up to 10 employees suggested with the help of AI, where the more suitable candidates appear higher on the list.

In the suggested successors list, users can hover over an employee and use the Add button to nominate them as a successor. Once the employee is nominated, they are removed from the list. Users can also choose the information icon to view why the employee is suggested in a popover dialog. The dialog contains up to four sections:

The more matched or related attributes an employee has, the more suitable they are regarded for the position.

The AI-generated content is stored on the position card for three days, after which it expires and becomes invisible. Users can regenerate the content at any time.

Here's a screenshot of this feature:

Compared with the Suggested Successors feature, the new feature incorporates more role-related data sources in generating recommendations, providing more relevant results to help improve the effectiveness of succession planning.

• You're using the MDF or legacy position-based nomination method.
• You've migrated to Talent Intelligence Hub and enabled the Growth Portfolio.

• You've purchased the AI units license. For more information about AI units license, please contact your Account Executive.

• You've consented to the AI Usage Acknowledgment Statement.
• You've enabled the Suggested Successors feature.
• You've contacted Technical Support to activate the AI-Assisted Successor Recommendation feature in your system.
• You've selected Assisted Successor Recommendation in the AI Services Administration admin tool.
• (Optional) You've configured the criteria and weights for AI-Assisted Successor Recommendation in the Nominations Setup admin tool.

• To enable this feature, you must have the Administrator Permissions→Manage AI Capabilities→AI Services Administration permission.
• To configure this feature, you must have the Administrator Permissions→Manage Succession→Succession Management permission.
• To use this feature, users must have the following permissions:
  • User Permissions→AI Access→Assisted Successor Recommendation
  • User Permissions→Career Development Planning→Recommended Successors permission. Only people included in the target population can be recommended.

AI-Assisted Successor Recommendation

Enabling AI-Assisted Successor Recommendation

Configuring AI-Assisted Successor Recommendation

Enabling Suggested Successors

Premium AI Features in SAP SuccessFactors

To use the tool, you must have the Administrator Permissions Manage Succession Matrix Grid Rating Scales permission.

Configuring Matrix Grid Rating Scales

Defining Levels and Labels for Matrix Grid Rating Scales

To manage successor nominations using this service, you must have the User Permissions→Succession Planners→Succession Planning Permission permission.

To manage talent pool nominations using this service, you must have the following permissions:

• User Permissions→Miscellaneous Permissions→Talent Pool→View Current
• User Permissions→Succession Planners→View Talent Pool Nominations
• User Permissions→Succession Planners→Add/Edit/Delete Talent Pool Nominations

Choosing Your Succession Nomination Method

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