Begin the video to get started on SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central.
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.
Employee Central Core
The Employee Central Core structure is composed of:
- HR Data is employee-specific information stored in Employee Central.
- Person Data is employee information independent of work, such as home address, nationality, dependents, and so on.
- Employment Data is the employee information connected to their employment, such as job code, job title, salary, and so on.
- Foundation Objects are a fundamental aspect of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. This allows the company to define and store its organization, pay, and job structures, which help organize employee information.
- Role-Based Permissions make it possible to grant different levels of read or write access, depending on the role of the user (HR, Employees, Managers, etc.)
- Self-Service. One of the key features of Employee Central is the ease with which you can maintain data. EC offers both employee and manager self-service.
- Workflows, Event Reasons, and Business Rules. The workflow defines the approval process. Event reasons are used to define the employee status for employment change and define the reason an event has taken place. The business rules add application logic to transactions.
Using self-service tools, companies can empower employees, managers, and HR to manage employee records by initiating transactions directly in the People Profile interface. People Profile is the unified page where employees can view their employee record.
Transactions
A transaction occurs when a user changes an employee record, for example, an employee initiating a change to their home address. Another example would be a manager initiating a promotion or a termination for a direct report. These transactions are easily managed in Employee Central by using Role-Based Permissions to control employee self-service and manager self-service.
HR data is classified as either effective-dated or non effective-dated data. This distinction determines the system behavior when initiating transactions. Changes made to effective-dated information create a historical row to the employee record; changes to non effective-dated information are overwritten.
The transactions initiated on effective-dated information need an effective date (also known as a Start Date). Which means that although you're entering the transaction today, you'll decide when you want the change to take effect (past, present, or future date).
For Job and Compensation information transactions, the system is designed to look for an event reason. The event reason keeps track of events throughout the employee lifecycle and sets the employment status. SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central can be configured to automate the event reasons based on the initiated change.
The workflows can be triggered automatically for some self-service transactions, which enable a company to customize the approval steps based on its business requirement.
The system uses Business Rules to serve as the application logic to maintain consistent behavior of how workflows and event reasons are derived.
Initiating Manager Self-Service
Begin the video to see an example of a manager-initiated transaction.
