Understanding EC and ECP Integration Overview

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to summarize the EC to EC Payroll Integration Process.

EC and ECP Integration Overview

Diagram showing SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and EC Payroll integration. Employee, Payroll, and Time Data are replicated between systems. Cost Center data flows from Finance to EC Payroll to Employee Central.

What’s Included

  • Core HR in the cloud: Employee Central, providing customers a single source of truth, handling HR transactions flawlessly, meeting compliance needs, and integrated with your talent and back-end solutions
  • Employee mini-master replicates employee, job and payroll or compensation data from EC to EC Payroll
  • Employees able to view their pay statements and pay related data in EC
  • Cost Centers integrated from EC Payroll for assignment to employees in EC
  • Time off and time sheet data entered in EC can be replicated to EC Payroll
  • Pre-packaged integrations and generic connectors that connect Employee Central with SAP EC Payroll

Business Benefits

  • Consume rapid innovation delivered via the Cloud
  • Optimize the core HR solution that supports your basic HR processes
  • Employee data as well as Time data / Time Sheet data are maintained once in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central then replicated to Employee Central Payroll
  • Data consistency between different systems
  • Less manual work in data replication between systems
  • Secure your employee data with robust security tools

Integration with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll - Employee Master Data Replication and Maintenance of Payroll-Relevant Employee Data

Screenshot of Integration of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll including Employee Master Data Replication and Maintenance of Payroll-Relevant Employee Data.

Step 1 - View New Hire in EC

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Step 2 - Replicate Employee Master Data

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Step 3 - Check Audit Log and Master Data in EC Payroll

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Process Overview

This process includes a demonstration of how to run the employee master data replication program for a new hire from SAP SuccessFactors EC to EC Payroll.

Prerequisites

Before performing the following scenario, the following items must have been completed:

Steps

  1. All integration configuration in Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll has been completed

  2. Point to Point replication is set up and working properly

Result

As part of this demonstration, we will cover 3 process steps for the integration of employee data for a new hire.

SAP SuccessFactors EC to ECP Integration Process Demo

Step 1 - Update Employee Data in EC

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Step 2 - Run Employee Master Data Replication

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Step 3 - Check Employee Master Data Update

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Process Overview

This process includes a demonstration of how to run the employee data replication in SAP SuccessFactors EC Payroll after changing an employee's data in EC.

Prerequisites

Before performing the following scenario, the following items must have been completed:

Steps

  1. All integration configuration in Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll has been completed.

  2. Point to Point replication is set up and working properly.

Result

As part of this demonstration, we will cover 3 process steps for the integration of employee data changes.

Icon Legend - Employee Master Data Replication and Maintenance of Payroll-Relevant Employee Data

Icons for Employee Master Data Replication and Maintenance of Payroll-Relevant Employee Data is displayed with their respective Menu Paths and Descriptions.

Employee Time Sheet Replication (Time Off enabled and Time Sheet functionality configured)

Employee Time Sheet Replication process is displayed through the SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll integration.

Note

Relevant only if Time Off is enabled in your Employee Central instance and is integrated with Employee Central Payroll.

EC to EC Payroll Integration – Replicate Cost Center (using Point to Point Replication)

Cost center data transfer process from SAP Financials to EC Payroll using ALE is displayed.

Note

The cost center data is first transferred from SAP Financials to EC Payroll using ALE. This process is not covered in this course.

Schedule Replication Processes

  • The Employee, Time-Off and Time Sheet Replication Processes are set up as automated batch jobs.
  • The program variant is created in each of the below transactions:

    HRSFEC_PTP_EE_REPL (for Employee Replication)

    HRSFEC_PTP_ABSE_REPL (for Time Off)

    HRSFEC_PTP_ATTE_REPL (for Time Sheet)

  • To run the cost center integration program, access transaction SE38 and run program ODTF_REPL_CC.
  • Transaction SM36 (Set up Batch Jobs) is used to schedule automatic replication jobs for each program.

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