Introducing the Employee Life Cycle in SAP SuccessFactors

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Outline where the SAP SuccessFactors solution fits in the SAP Intelligent Suite
  • Plan for the Employee Life Cycle

Processes within the Employee Life Cycle

To fully support organizations in managing the Recruit to Retire business process, SAP SuccessFactors provides solutions dedicated to workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, working, paying & closing of the books as well as the offboarding of the employee.

The Recruit to Retire process from planning, recruiting, onboarding, work, travel, to pay and close.
The Recruit to Retire subprocesses of the integration to facilitate an exceptional workforce experience.

​The Recruit to Retire business process contains Hire to Retire subprocesses and we focus on the SAP SuccessFactors modules in the Hire to Retire subprocesses.

Hire to Retire process provides value to transform the business

​The Hire to Retire business process focuses on the key elements to support the following activities of the employee life cycle:

  • Get the workforce engaged and productive, quickly.
  • Provide insights to make better talent decisions - aligning to key business and financial priorities.
  • Drive new and meaningful experiences that link purpose to performance.

The end-to-end integration of the Employee Life Cycle in the Digital workplace experience.

The Hire to Retire business process, also known as the Employee Life Cycle, consists of Planning, Recruiting, Onboarding, Working, and Paying & Closing of the books, and finally Offboarding of the employee.

The Hire to Retire subprocess includes the integration of applications of SAP SuccessFactors and SAP S/4HANA. This course concentrates on the SAP SuccessFactors modules that are required at a minimum to recruit, onboard, and maintain employees in your company or organization.

Workforce Data Analysis for the Employee Life Cycle

Graphic showing the Workforce Analytics solution for the Hire to Retire process which includes connection, query design, story design, and the end user.

The first step in the Employee Life Cycle starts with having up-to-date data that can be used to plan and make informed, data-driven decisions. Our Workforce Analytics solution is purpose-built for HR and makes workforce analytics simple and accessible for HR professionals, analysts, and business partners.

  • Applied to SAP SuccessFactors data.
  • Supports flexible and customized design.
  • Built to answer critical process questions, live.

The data you have on your people is in the Workforce Analytics module, which is where you perform the gap analysis in your workforce and plan for opening requisitions.

Ultimately, these reporting capabilities are applied to all SAP SuccessFactors data to support flexible and customized design to answer live the kinds of questions that are critical within the Hire to Retire process.

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