Identifying the Core Components of Employee Central

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SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central provides a reliable, consistent system of record for global companies and helps enhance the overall experience for highly diverse mobile employees. It makes tasks less manual for employees, managers, and HR, and gives them the tools needed to automate time-consuming tasks.

What sets SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central apart from other HRIS is its user-friendly approach to data management. The system provides both employees and managers with self-service options, allowing them to update or modify their information easily. Access to data is controlled through role-based permissions (RBP), ensuring that only authorized users can view or edit specific information. This feature enables employees to update their own records and managers to make necessary changes for their team members, making the system efficient and easy to use.

Every organization has its own unique structure. That’s why SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central offers flexible features that allow businesses to easily configure their organization, job, and pay structures. It also enables customization of employee data fields and provides tools to track key events and their reasons throughout the employee lifecycle. SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central also provides localization support in more than 100 locales which helps you keep track of key HR information in line with country-specific requirements.

Company data can be categorized into two main types:

• Employee Data (HR Data) - This includes information specific to employees, such as their name, date of birth, and nationality. It also covers employment details like job title, salary, and other compensation-related aspects.
• Organization Data– This refers to company’s structure data, including departments, divisions, and legal entities. It also encompasses job classifications and pay structures. In SAP SuccessFactors, organization-related data is referred to as Foundation Objects. Foundation Objects play a key role in organizing employee information.

Associations enable you to define relationships between Foundation Objects and their records. Once the association is built, the records are linked together. These relationships allow the system to organize your company’s information better. For example, a customer may have a business unit associated with several divisions.

The relationships between foundation data help the system automatically filter options in an employee's record. For example, if an employee is transferred to Business Unit 2, the system will only allow Division 3 to be selected because it is the only division linked to that business unit. This automatic filtering ensures that selections align with your company’s structure and configuration, simplifying data entry and maintaining accuracy.

Employee data is comprised of personal and employment-related information, which is organized within predefined objects provided by SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. These objects include key features such as effective dating, country-specific fields, and support for custom fields, ensuring both flexibility and compliance.

Personal information encompasses non-business data about the employee, including national ID, address, biographical details, and contact information. This information is displayed in separate cards in the People Profile under the Personal Data category. Your organization can determine which fields are required and, using Role-Based Permissions, decide who can view or edit this information.

Employment information refers to the data related to an employee's role within a company. This information can change as the employee progresses through different stages of their career within the organization.

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central offers standard, pre-configured employment objects designed to store employment-specific details. These details help meet legal requirements that vary by country and provide essential information about the employee’s organizational role and compensation, among other things. This information is displayed in separate cards in the People Profile under the Job and Compensation Data categories.