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� Get advanced tips and techniques to optimizepayroll and time management functions

� Heighten the effectiveness of recruitment, training,appraisal, compensation, and planning activities

� Bolster your ability to manage a varied and globallydispersed workforce

� Hear how your counterparts implement, customize,and leverage ESS and MSS

� Optimally configure Organizational Management(OM) objects, evaluation paths, Infotypes, andrelationships

� Exploit web and portal technology for benefits,payroll, and compensation

� Learn new ways to develop and customizefunctionality, secure sensitive data, and move databetween systems

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“My HR 2005

experience was

so great I

wouldn’t miss

HR 2006.”

Sue Buckley,RTI InternationalMetals, Inc.

2005 attendee

HR is no longer about administrative functions. HR organizations now alsoneed to provide strategic answers to questions such as:

• Have we identified and are we grooming our next wave of leaders? • How does our workforce strategy contribute to company performance?• Do our talent management activities ensure we’ll remain competitive? • Are our compensation and benefits programs aligned with the right objectives?

How does an HR organization continue to meet day-to-day administrative obligations andtransform itself into a strategic business advisor? You automate routine, transactional tasks viaself-service applications such as SAP ESS and MSS, where possible. And you actively monitor,analyze, collaborate and act upon key findings and events. Some actions are proactive – settingobjectives and strategic plans at the outset of a business initiative. Here, better data and morecomprehensive views of the business (beyond the traditional bounds of HR) leads to betterstrategies. Other actions are reactive. Here, more timely, accurate and comprehensive data andanalysis offers an organization better reaction times. All of this is possible with the technologyand application infrastructure SAP makes available to you.

At SAP HR 2006, you can learn what options are available to heighten the performance of yourHR organization. You’ll have a chance to meet with and listen to top experts from SAP, othercustomers, and SAP partners to get answers to your questions about HR process optimization andtransformation and discuss new ways of leveraging your SAP investments to meet yourchallenges. Please join me in Las Vegas March 8-10.

Sincerely,

David LudlowVice President of Solution Management,Human Capital Management,SAP AG

Join us for an unrivaled educational opportunity

Schedule at-a-glanceJumpstart Day Conference

Tuesday • March 78:30 Registration opens

10:00 A beginner’s guide toSAP HR terminology,concepts, and solutions

Get ready to run HR processes in anSAP portal

1:00 Lunch

2:00 Resistance management 101

3:00 Moving from R/3 tomySAP ERP HCMand SAP NetWeaver®

6:00 Registration closes

Wednesday • March 87:00 Registration opens

Continental breakfast

8:30 Keynote addresses

10:00 Break

10:30 Breakout sessions

11:45 Lunch


2:30 Break


4:00 Break


5:30 Opening Night Reception

6:00 Ask-the-experts

Thursday • March 97:00 Registration opens



9:45 Break


11:15 Break


12:45 Lunch


4:00 Break


5:30 Welcome to Las VegasReception

6:00 Ask-the-experts

Friday • March 107:00 Registration opens



9:45 Break


11:15 Break


12:45 Lunch


3:30 Break


5:00 Conference concludes

3Questions? Call us at 1-781-751-8650

Conference overviewAt SAP HR 2006, experts from SAP, the top independent consultants, and experiencedcustomers provide strategies and instruction for teams that lead and support the followingactivities:

Highlights of this exciting educational and networking event include:

�� More than 120 expert-led sessions and case studies – SAP HR 2006 is anunrivaled educational opportunity. Customize your learning experience across more than120 expert-led sessions and case studies.

�� Networking events and roundtables – Join hundreds of your peers at ournetworking events and roundtables. Share experiences and discuss the tools andapproaches that have (and have not) worked well for your counterparts at othercompanies.

�� Ask-the-experts – Spend one-on-one time with expert speakers. Get answers to yourtoughest questions on SAP HR, Payroll, mySAP ERP HCM, MSS, ESS, OrganizationalManagement, Talent and Relationship Management, Travel Management, and reporting.

�� Pre-conference Jumpstart Day – Learn fundamental concepts that everyone whoworks with SAP HR solutions needs to know. Fortify your knowledgebase and empoweryour organization to hit the ground running with its SAP-based HR initiatives.

�� Special co-location with SAP Financials 2006 – Attendees of SAP HR 2006 whoalso want to learn more about SAP financial solutions can attend any of the 120 sessionsoffered at the co-located SAP Financials 2006 conference at no additional cost.

�� Solutions Showcase – See how products and services from SAP and leading third-partyvendors can help you solidify your HR infrastructure and improve key processes.

�� Vendor Theatre – Get in-depth knowledge through informative lectures, detailed demos,and interactive discussions about products that can improve or enhance your currentactivities.

�� Birds-of-a-feather sessions – Trade ideas with peers who encounter the samechallenges that you do. Learn proven approaches, tips, and techniques to enhance yourability to support your HR requirements. Sidestep the mistakes your peers have madeand avoid reinventing the wheel.

�� Take-home tools and resources – All attendees receive conference CDs that containthe slides for every session, plus invaluable checklists, decision matrices, planningtemplates, sample code, articles, and reference materials — resources to facilitate yourlearning into 2006 and beyond.

� Organizational Management� Performance management� E-Learning� SAP product updates� Upgrades and integration� Time management� Technology and infrastructure � BW-based and R/3-based reporting

� MSS and ESS � Recruitment� Payroll � Benefits� Compensation� Global deployments� Talent management� Change management and leadership “Unprecedented

access to HR

experts. The

conference gave

me concrete tips

and tricks for

our upgrade

project.”

Michael Brooks,BHP Billiton

2005 attendee


Jumpstart Day Jumpstart your educational experienceThe pre-conference Jumpstart Day takes place on Tuesday, March 7 and offers special,comprehensive introductions to fundamental SAP concepts and technologies. This is an idealopportunity to reinforce your knowledge and hit the ground running when the conference begins onWednesday, March 8.

Track 1 New strategies, principles, and technologies for HR leadershipEvaluate the most recent and most important developments in the area of HR alignment. Explorebenchmarks and best practices for HR service delivery, payroll, and talent management. Getstrategies to reduce HR infrastructure costs and improve the quality and timeliness of HRservices. This track also includes expert instruction on key design and deployment considerationsfor global SAP projects.

Track 2 SAP product updates and overviewsGain a comprehensive understanding of the solutions, technologies, and enhancements that nowcomprise mySAP ERP HCM, including: MSS, ESS, Travel Management, E-Recruiting, Payroll,Organizational Management, Employee Interaction Center, SAP Learning Solution, and TalentManagement. See demos and review requirements. Learn about Mendocino — this new,integrated SAP/Microsoft Windows offering enables users to participate in SAP-based timemanagement, leave management, team management, and budget monitoring directly fromMicrosoft Outlook.

Customize your learning experienceCustomer case studies and expert-led sessions span 8 comprehensive tracks. Mix and matchsessions to get the practical training, strategies, expert instruction, and real-world advice thatwill be most helpful to you.

For detailed information about the sessions offered at SAP Financials 2006, visitwww.sapfinancials2006.com.

Please note Attendees of SAP HR 2006 who want to learn more about SAP financialsolutions can attend any of the 120 sessions offered at SAP Financials 2006 at noadditional cost. Both conferences run March 8–10 at The Venetian in Las Vegas.Conference sessions at SAP Financials 2006 span the following 11 tracks:

� New trends and strategies for financial leadership

� Financial accounting (FI): Best practices, updates, and advanced tips and tricks

� Managerial accounting and controlling (CO): Best practices, updates, and advancedtips and tricks

� Financial reporting with SAP BW and R/3

� Business planning, analytics, and performance management

� Financial consolidations, transparency, and reducing time to close

� Optimizing global financial processes and operations – Rollout, currency, and tax issues

� Upgrading your SAP financial infrastructure

� Financial supply chain: Billing, treasury, cash management, and credit management

� Continuous improvement and long-term compliance

� Technology, infrastructure, and SAP NetWeaver

“Extensive

information on

the capabilities

of the SAP HR

system. Gives

us great insight

as we move

forward with our

implementation.”

Cheri Zuber,BP Chemical

2005 attendee


Track 3 HR and payroll reporting and analyticsSessions in this track provide best practices, tips, and detailed instruction for leveraging R/3 andSAP BW for HR and Payroll reporting, queries, calculations, forms, dashboards, balanced scorecards,and data analysis. Learn what standard queries and HR analytics are available from SAP. Get expertadvice for scheduling, automating, and securing SAP queries and custom reports. Receive advancedinstruction on SAP Query, Ad Hoc Query, QuickViewer, InfoCubes, SmartForms, and SAPscript.Discover how to design and create a web cockpit to publish and distribute SAP BW reports.

Track 4 Talent and compensation managementTake an in-depth look at SAP solutions for recruitment, performance and career development,training, succession planning, personnel cost planning, objective setting, and compensationmanagement. Know what it really takes to leverage SAP to track employee skills and build anemployee appraisal solution. Learn how to use competency and position management functionalityas the foundation to centrally manage your skills and talent database.

Track 5 HR service delivery via the web, portal, MSS, and ESSLearn how to cost-effectively introduce and maintain self-service offerings. Hear how yourcounterparts leverage SAP Enterprise Portal, Employee Self-Service (ESS), and Manager Self-Service (MSS) to offer employees and managers access to critical business transactions, includingbenefits and claims processing, talent management, personnel change requests (PCRs), and timeand expense entry data management. Get detailed instruction and best practices for the SAPtools available for customizing your portal-based HR activities, including Business Server Pages,Web Dynpro, and Java Server Pages. Take home step-by-step portal design, layout, navigation,and content development tips.

Track 6 Payroll, Benefits, and Time ManagementDiscover the best ways to ensure accuracy and compliance when you execute daily transactionsfor SAP Payroll, Time Management, and benefits and claims processing. Integrate SAP Payrollwith FI, CO, CATS, Tax Reporter, and garnishments. Get advanced lessons in SAP Payrollreconciliations, retrocalculations, and arrears, and learn how to utilize the payroll schema to fulfillunique customization requirements. Get crucial, undocumented deployment tips for time andattendance. Examine outsourcing options for key payroll and benefits transactions and processes.Take home configuration tips to enhance benefits enrollment, to manage HIPAA compliance, and tocredit and resolve claims.

Track 7 Organizational ManagementGet expert instruction on Organizational Management (OM). Ensure its proper function andinteroperation with workflow, reporting, security, and Employee Self-Service (ESS). Takeadvantage of expert-led sessions on Position Management. Learn the best ways to create newrelationships and evaluation paths to aid structural authorizations and Manager Self-Service(MSS) access. Advance your skills with OM objects, evaluation paths, Infotypes, relationships,and organizational charts.

Track 8 Implementations, upgrades, and technical infrastructureWith a focus on HR and Payroll, case studies and instructional sessions in this track offer expertguidance on R/3 and mySAP ERP upgrades and implementations. Review the leading methodologiesand tools to plan, execute, document, and test your project. Master the challenges of integratingmultiple SAP and non-SAP systems into a centralized SAP system. Discover the newest ways tocustomize HR functionality, secure and archive sensitive data, monitor HR and Payroll processes, andfast-track administrative activities. Improve interfaces between SAP and non-SAP applications.Learn new technologies for leveraging customer exits, BAPIs, and ABAP Objects.

across 8 comprehensive tracks

“I learned a lot

about everything

— from off-cycle

payroll to custom

schemes and

rules, from voids

and reversals to

ABAP objects

for HR

authorizations.”

Christina Tsang,University of Toronto

2005 attendee


“I ended up

learning more

than expected!”

Andrea Heitman Keefe,Deere and Company

2005 attendee

Jumpstart Day

Get ready to run HR processes in anSAP portal

Tuesday, March 710:00 am - 1:00 pm

This session provides a comprehensive intro-duction to SAP portal technology, the ways inwhich it now factors into HR activities, andwhat’s required of implementation teams toensure its successful operation:

� Hear how your counterparts leverageSAP portal technology to improve theefficiency of key HR processes

� Evaluate options, requirements, andbest practices for setting up yourportal to support ESS and MSS

� Learn how SAP portal componentsmap to HR activities and how todeploy them to meet your targets foruser adoption and applicationperformance

� Compare options for developing andcustomizing portal-based content

� Get best practices for integrating SAPand non-SAP HR content and makingit accessible to users

� Prepare for real-world cost, training,and resources requirements

A beginner’s guide to SAP HRterminology, concepts, and solutions

Tuesday, March 710:00 am - 1:00 pm

Master the concepts you need to get startedwith SAP Personnel Administration (PA),Payroll, Time Management, OrganizationalManagement (OM), reporting, analytics, ESS,MSS, and mySAP ERP HCM:

� Explore the role and operation of SAPInfotypes, employee master data,personnel actions, and authorizations

� Delve into the building blocks ofOrganization Management (e.g., organ-izational units, positions, and jobs) andhow they impact SAP HR transactions,reporting, and self-services

� Learn what you can do with EmployeeSelf-Service (ESS) and Manager Self-Service (MSS) and get best practicesto plan and realize your HR self-service delivery model

� Review basic SAP security, reporting,and data conversion concepts

� Take home a quick reference guide toSAP HR terminology, key HR andpayroll transaction codes, andconfiguration best practices

Jumpstart Day offers you the opportunity to master fundamental concepts.

These special sessions fortify your knowledgebase, enhance your learning experience atthe main conference, and empower your organization to hit the ground running with newSAP initiatives.

Attend any session(s) of interest to you. All sessions offer expert-led instruction, demos,and guidelines, and include dedicated question-and-answer time.

Lunch is included for all Jumpstart Day attendees. Plus all attendees receive a CDcontaining the slides from all the day’s presentations.

About HR 2006 Jumpstart Day


“All of my

objectives were

met way above

and beyond

what I had

expected.”

Delia Parmenter,Port of San Diego

2005 attendee

Tuesday, March 7

Interactive training workshopResistance management 101

Tuesday, March 72:00 pm - 6:00 pm

This special 4-hour, hands-on workshop armsproject teams with strategies, tools, and tech-niques to overcome an organization’s naturalresistance to change and compel users toembrace the new processes, interfaces, ortechnologies they are introducing:

� Gain new insights into the 4 keystages of change: denial, resistance,exploration, and commitment

� Examine new strategies foranticipating, mitigating, and managingresistance to change

� Delve into the 24 key issues thatshape successful changemanagement strategies

� Get a proven, 7-step roadmap forinstituting change

� Discover the most effective agents ofchange

� Learn best practices to effectively andefficiently communicate change

In addition to the sessions highlighted above, Jumpstart Day offers the following four sessions forthose who also want to learn about fundamental building blocks of SAP financial solutions:

� SAP BW 101: Everything you ever wanted to know about how SAP BW supports financial organizations but were afraid to ask

� FI/CO 101: A beginners’ guide to SAP financial accounting, controlling, treasury, and cashmanagement functionality

� A comprehensive introduction to mySAP ERP Financials

� Getting started with SAP Business Planning and Simulation (BPS) and Business Consolidation System (BCS)

Details can be found at www.sapfinancials2006.com/jumpstart

Moving from R/3 to mySAP ERP HCMand SAP NetWeaver

Tuesday, March 73:00 pm - 6:00 pm

This session provides R/3 customers with acomprehensive introduction to mySAP ERPHCM and the SAP NetWeaver technologyplatform on which it runs:

� Explore mySAP ERP HCM solutionsfor self-service, e-recruitment,compensation management, talentmanagement, time and travelmanagement, reporting, andanalytics

� Step through the businessintelligence, portal, collaboration,integration, mobile, and applicationdevelopment technologies thatcomprise the SAP NetWeaverplatform

� Learn which SAP NetWeavercomponents need to beimplemented to support your targetHR activities

� Get expert recommendations totransition from R/3’s client-serverarchitecture to SAP NetWeaver’sEnterprise Services Architecture (ESA)


All SAP HR 2006 attendees receive CDs packed with the full materials from all 120+ conferencesessions. You take home sample code, tips, lessons learned, expert guidelines, andrecommendations that facilitate your learning throughout 2006 and beyond!

� A checklist of frequently used payrollfunctions and operations, along with adescription of how to use each of them

� Tips to configure SAP recruitment,performance management, benefitsenrollment, and time managementfunctionality to interface with web, imaging,email, wireless, and voice frontends

� A guide that shows you how to take fulladvantage of selections screens andcalculations to add specifications to your HR reports

� A list of standard SAP HR SmartFormsand an example of an XML-basedSmartForm that you can load and use as atemplate in your own system for creatingtime cards

� Metrics for all phases of your HR implementation — recruiting, benefits, personneladministration, compensation, training, and talent management

� A training guide for Object Manager, including how to find persons and OrganizationalManagement (OM) objects, perform free searches, and utilize search results to updatemaster data and OM object characteristics

� A checklist of detailed configuration steps to implement and optimize position budgetingand control

� Examples of conversion-mapping documents to help you see what worked and what youshould avoid when migrating from PeopleSoft to SAP HR

� Custom code to explain how to create and modify SAP Manager’s Desktop function codesand column configuration

� A configuration guide with step-by-step instructions to create or enhance your own processmodels to streamline payroll processing

� A list of SAP HR archiving objects, along with insights and details on the content andimportance of each object

� Real-world examples of test plans for your HR implementation or upgrade

� Sample project team structures, both large and small, to help you design an effective HRproject team

� Sample ABAP user exit code to enhance the automation of your HR reporting queries

� Valuable ABAP code and custom Visual Basic code to help you add special formatting toyour Visio charts

� A flowchart that details how automatic premium processing works and how it differs frommanual processing

Take-home resources

Take home valuable resources

ConferenceMaterials

ConferenceMaterials

SessionMaterials

“I attended

HR 2005 to learn

as much as

possible about

the technology

and its

functionality —

and I did! I refer

back to the

information I

picked up all the

time.”

Cindy Metz,Cox Target Media

2005 attendee


Case StudyBuilding a rock-solid business case andproject plan for SAP Enterprise Portaland Manager Self-Service (MSS)RSA Security kicked off its SAP Enterprise Portal projectwith a gateway Manager Self-Service (MSS) implementa-tion. Learn how this approach enabled the company tomitigate risk and why it decided to take a gradualapproach instead of a full-blown portal implementation.Walk through RSA’s business case for the project, whichoriginated with a need to process payroll changes in R/3and become a global solution. Discover the lessonslearned for determining the right consulting partner,project scope, and organizational involvement. Examinethe timeline to replace the existing company intranet andextranet with SAP Enterprise Portal. Discover how com-pany employees, consultants, and managers decidedwhich functionality in MSS to launch first. Get tips onbuilding a change management communication plan thatensures user acceptance. Understand the challenges ofmeasuring the success of the implementation and seeexamples of actual key performance indicators utilized,such as time saved by managers.

Track 1

New strategies, principles, andtechnologies for HR leadership

Case StudyHow HR professionals at The Coca-ColaCompany access content, reportingtools, and job profile librariesThe Coca-Cola Company is transforming its HR informa-tion strategy and is enabling SAP Enterprise Portal tech-nology to change how HR supports valuable human cap-ital. Coca-Cola’s HR portal contains an HR Toolbox thatprovides HR professionals with a central source for theHR content, support, collaboration, reporting, and jobprofile libraries that are central to most of the company’sHR tasks. Hear a firsthand story of the challenges ofdesigning and implementing an HR information portal.Learn how Coca-Cola is creating a solution for HRemployees that combines technology, process, commu-nications, and training into a powerful, focused HR tool.Experience Coca-Cola’s project from strategy develop-ment and planning to the end results, with frank details ofwhat is working and what isn’t. Walk away with lessonslearned to-date from Coca-Cola’s project, including howto involve the HR team early through activities such asdesign review sessions and active prototyping.

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An HR blueprint

for world-class

operations that

deliver superior

results

Keynote speakersEnabling human capital management with technologyDavid LudlowVice President of Solution Management, Human Capital Management, SAP AG

Technology plays a central role in the ability of an organization to maximize its human capital invest-ment. Learn how SAP is leveraging the latest in technology to enable you to better manage yourstrategic human capital processes. Hear firsthand about SAP’s Human Capital Management solutiondirection and product delivery, and how you can leverage the current solutions to achieve maximumvalue for your organization.

The new agenda for HCM: To get strategic, get operationalMark D. LangeNational Vice President, Human Capital Management Solutions, SAP AG

Competitive challenges, regulatory imperatives, seismic shifts in technology, a mandate to do morethan ever with less... how can anyone charged with effective human resource management get on topof the demand curve — and drive the agenda rather than be driven by it? What will it take to define ahuman capital roadmap for your organization that delivers efficiency, business flexibility, and compet-itive agility? In this keynote session, Mark D. Lange, SAP’s National Vice President for Human CapitalManagement Solutions, will give you a blueprint for world-class HCM that is core to day-to-day oper-ations, and delivers operating and financial results. He’ll also update you on SAP’s upcoming HCMofferings, highlight customer success stories, and share best practices you can put in motion quickly.


Explore new

strategies for

driving and

communicating

organizational

change

Portal governance – New strategies,tactics, and conventionsGain new and important insight into governance and therole it plays in HR, employee, and self-service portals.Learn how to manage the complexities of integrating mul-tiple applications for multiple audiences in one portal.Examine the elements required for a successful portalgovernance strategy, including role management, con-tent integration and management, and the developmentof standards and naming conventions. Learn how tomanage these elements, the key to the growth and adop-tion of your portal. Walk away with real-life examples ofwhat works and what does not. Find out why it is criticalto have a portal program coordinator oversee your portalgovernance efforts, including functionality releases, con-figuration changes. and upgrades to SAP components.Learn what can happen if governance is not champi-oned. Take home tips for establishing best practices forportal governance in your project and within your com-pany’s support of the SAP portal landscape.

Adding new solutions to your HCMlandscape? Why traditional selectionapproaches no longer workDue to the increasingly consolidated HR marketplaceand the fairly homogenous functional offerings, the tradi-tional methods for evaluating HR software vendors are nolonger effective. Get an unbiased overview of the currentstate of the marketplace and hear what the future lookslike for the major players. Discover how functional paritybetween HR marketplace competitors changes yourproduct selection criteria and why you can no longermake traditional HR process requirements your corefocus. Get tips for developing a new set of selection cri-teria and hear why the ability to articulate your company’sstrategic global IT intentions is critical to making the rightchoice. Prepare for your package selection process byutilizing the “80/20 rule” to narrow your focus to key func-tionality that differentiates your business, rather thanstandard functionality that is similar in all packages. Stepthrough a proven business case development method-ology to create a set of requirements and expectedresults you can deliver. Get best practices for gettingstakeholder commitment, identifying IT strategy implica-tions and developing a bulletproof business case, andsee firsthand how these are used to create a viablepackage selection process that is built for success.

Managing the SAP marathon: How tokeep your HR and payroll teams engagedand energized from project start to finish Failure to properly manage your SAP project teamthrough a highly intense initiative such as an SAP HR orpayroll upgrade, rollout, or implementation can lead toteam burnout and jeopardize the outcome of yourproject. This session provides proven approaches tokeep your staff engaged, energized, and working as ateam. Identify the four most common working styleswithin IT and business teams. Examine core manage-ment approaches and understand which methods maymotivate an individual, according to their working style.Get advice to motivate your team members the way theyare most comfortable being managed and motivated.Hear about the creative, fun activities your counterparts atother companies have used with great success to moti-vate their SAP project teams. Walk away with ideas ofhow to facilitate these practices with your SAP projectteams.

All aboard! New strategies to gain andretain stakeholder commitment for yourSAP HR project The success of your SAP HR project depends as muchon the goodwill and support of a diverse set of organiza-tional stakeholders as it does on effective project plan-ning and execution. Hear how your counterparts at otherorganizations are communicating with major stakeholdergroups. Get practical steps to assess and analyze thespecific needs and better manage expectations of dif-ferent parties. Learn how, why, and when to assess whichstakeholders exercise influence over others and why somany successful project teams now leverageStakeholder Maps. Discover how to leverage a particulargroup’s sphere of influence to combat resistance. Findout how you can combine key principles of communica-tion with your Stakeholder Map to determine how, when,and what to communicate about your project to differentstakeholder groups. Take home practical ideas andmodels you can put to use right away.

Track 1 continued


Save time and reduce recruitmentcosts with an employee interactioncenter HR shared service centers are increasing in popularityas organizations forego outsourcing in favor of a moreeconomical delivery of internal HR functions. This ses-sion looks at the growing trend of HR shared servicecenters. Explore specific examples of how the integra-tion of core Customer Relationship Management (CRM)Interaction Center and SAP HR components has led tothe development of Employee RelationshipManagement (ERM) and employee interaction centers.Walk through recent ERM projects, from public sector toretail banking, to see how they merged and imple-mented SAP HR and CRM technology. Gain insight intothe timelines they used, the skill sets they needed, andhow they measured the benefits of the integration. Seehow future SAP development will impact how organiza-tions design and roll out employee interaction centers.Uncover key performance metrics for shared servicesorganizations. Get detailed recommendations for howto share resources across your organization, developinternal expertise, and reduce internal recruitment coststhrough ERM.

Simplify operations and lower the TCOof your payroll processes with SAPPayroll Change ManagementGet an overview of the SAP Payroll Change ManagementAdd-on Tool and how it can significantly reduce the costof ownership for your existing SAP payroll software. Lookat a demo and see how you can leverage this tool toreduce the cost and simplify the implementation, opera-tion, and maintenance of SAP Payroll. Leverage instanterror reporting and impact analysis, cross-references,detailed configuration comparisons, and powerful, easy-to-use debugging capabilities in SAP Payroll ChangeManagement. Discover how easily you can install thistool. Get specific advice about what resources you needto get started with the functionality. Walk away with newstrategies to reduce the total cost of ownership of yourSAP payroll setup.

Case StudyLessons from an MSS veteran: Pitney Bowes – Year Three! In this third year after their initial roll out, Pitney Bowesshares details of the system and process enhancementsmade to their SAP Manager Self-Service (MSS) applica-tions. These changes include the addition of a bolt-onsoftware solution for org charting and deployment of asimpler version of the portal, which was added inresponse to requests from Pitney Bowes managers forfaster access to HR transactions and to display the organd position data in a pictorial manner. See how the teamat Pitney Bowes collaborated with managers to obtain awish list of improvements and to develop the solutions tomeet the changing needs of the organization. Grasp thechallenge of getting managers to understand positionmanagement concepts, such as when to update theemployee or the position data. Discover how PitneyBowes reduced HR department costs by 40% for the ini-tial implementation with the help of SAP MSS and con-tinues to see cost savings as process improvements areidentified and implemented, including a redesign of thenew hire process and the creation of additional data editsbuilt into the Position Change Requests (PCRs) toimprove data accuracy.

Convert corporate strategy into actionwith Employee PerformanceManagement in mySAP ERP HCMTake a detailed look at the employee performance man-agement capabilities of mySAP ERP HCM and see howto use it to align the individual performance of everyemployee with your corporate strategy. Understand howintegration with SAP Strategic Enterprise Management(SAP SEM) allows you to better communicate corporateinitiatives and goals with every employee. Integrate yourperformance planning processes with your HR balancedscorecard to match your strategy to each individualemployee’s activities and transfer performance metricsfrom the scorecard directly to performance plans. Walkthrough a demo of Employee Performance Managementand discover how to integrate Enterprise CompensationManagement with learning and development data toeffectively plan, review, and deliver feedback toemployees. Hear and see what’s new in employee per-formance management in mySAP ERP HCM 2005.

HR processes

that deliver

against

corporate

objectives



The 5 most overlooked, underestimated,and mismanaged parts of SAP HR projectsThis session will help you take an objective look at yourSAP HR project plan so you can focus on the under-valued milestones and overlooked deliverables that cantruly make or break the success of your SAP project.Learn how to sufficiently detail and spell out proceduresand steps to manage organizational change, communi-cation, documentation, training, and support. Get spe-cific recommendations on how to cut a clear path fromyour organization’s current state to a desired state. Gaina more thorough understanding of what transition man-agement is all about and why it is so critical to the suc-cess of your project. Learn how to apply a transitionframework to your SAP project plan. Take home a self-checklist that measures your position in each of the 5 crit-ical project support areas.

How exactly does SAP NetWeaversupport HR processes?Get an HR-based overview of SAP NetWeaver compo-nents, including SAP Document Management, SAPNetWeaver Business Intelligence, Portal, Master DataManagement, and Web Application Server, and see howthey support HR processes. Review the capabilities andrequirements of the SAP NetWeaver components tounderstand why SAP positions SAP NetWeaver as theunified technology platform for HR processes. Evaluate ifand how SAP NetWeaver application development andintegration options can ease or accelerate your HR cus-tomization activities. Evaluate how Enterprise ServicesArchitecture can link various HR processes with oneanother and with other business processes, and discoverwhat new options are on the horizon. Examine the waysmany early adopters of SAP NetWeaver now employ thistechnology platform for specific HR initiatives. Get anupdate on recent SAP NetWeaver enhancements specif-ically related to HR, including Interaction Center and HRAdministration Services.

Track 1 continuedKeep your

HR

organization

one step

ahead of the

competition


Streamline HCM shared services withmySAP ERP 2005 Employee InteractionCenter mySAP ERP 2005 includes an Employee InteractionCenter (EIC) that is designed to optimize HR servicedelivery across an organization by enabling you to offer asingle point of contact. Get expert advice on how to useEIC’s multiple communication channels to lower HRservice delivery costs while simultaneously raisingemployee satisfaction and speeding the time it takes toprovide answers, feedback and information toemployees. Get an overview of the web-based user inter-face and learn how to incorporate EIC functionality. Knowyour options for deploying EIC in your mySAP ERP 2005upgrade or implementation landscape. Discover thepowerful business case for including an EIC. Learn howthe standardization of HR processes and services canoptimize ROI potential and lower total cost of ownership.

What’s new in SAP E-Recruiting 6.0 Prepare for the next generation of e-recruiting. Take alook at the significant functional enhancements in SAPE-Recruiting 6.0. Learn what’s new in the 6.0 supportpacks and see how new functionality (like customerconfigurable dashboards) improves the efficiency andvisibility of recruiters and hiring managers. Explore theimprovements in the user interface and see examples ofhow new search capabilities improve the results displayand allow you to search with fewer clicks. Master the dif-ferent ways to effectively manage talent pipelines usingSAP E-Recruiting. Increase recruiter productivity anddata accuracy and reduce the time applicants spendonline with new resume parsing capabilities. Discoverhow to use talent pools to effectively manage and com-municate with different groups of talent in the talentwarehouse. Review the new SAP E-Recruiting authoriza-tion concept and how it allows you to more tightlyrestrict which activities your recruiters can perform. Walkaway with the SAP E-Recruiting product roadmap andstrategize with SAP E-Recruiting’s future in mind!

Track 2

SAP product updates andoverviewsMendocino: Revolutionizing howinformation workers access enterpriseapplications Mendocino is the code name for the joint effort betweenSAP and Microsoft that enables information workers tointeract with mySAP ERP 2004 business processesthrough the familiar Microsoft Office environment.Discover why Mendocino will revolutionize the wayemployees and managers complete critical tasks. Forexample, see how tasks like time recording, organiza-tional management, and leave management becomeaccessible via Microsoft Office. See how integrationbetween Microsoft Outlook and mySAP ERP HCM worksto synchronize contact information and calendaring.Utilize Mendocino to distribute and display report datafrom SAP applications in standard or customized Exceloutput and allow users to personalize their output formatand layout. Evaluate Mendocino firsthand by walkingthrough an online demo of the features and functionality.Come away with a solid understanding of howMendocino works with SAP Employee Self-Service (ESS)and Manager Self-Service (MSS) applications.

What’s new in SAP ESS and SAP MSS inmySAP ERP 2005 Attend this informative session to get a first look at themySAP ERP HCM enhancements and new functionalityfor both SAP Manager Self-Service (SAP MSS) and SAPEmployee Self-Service (SAP ESS) included in mySAPERP 2005. Review the new SAP self-service deliveryprocesses and learn how they help drive employee effi-ciency and productivity. Prepare for the impact of theseprocesses (which are delivered through SAP NetWeaverPortal) on your technology infrastructure and user base.See how the new SAP MSS processes increase user pro-ductivity, enabling managers to be more proactive in thecompletion of their staffing tasks, from recruitment to per-formance and skill management, as well as planningprocesses for compensation and headcount. Uncoverhow SAP ESS Life and Work events have been improvedbased on Guided Procedures, and see the changes inaction.

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Fill the administrative process gap withnew automated functionalityGet a sneak peak at the newest mySAP ERP 2005 toolset:HCM Processes and Form. Presently in Ramp-Up, thissolution automates processes that SAP Employee Self-Service (ESS) and Manager Self-Service (MSS) do notaddress. See how HCM Processes and Form uses AdobeInteractive Forms in conjunction with ESS and MSS to doaway with the need for manual entry for certain processes.For example, if you receive an email or telephone callabout the birth of a child, you call up the HCM Processesand Form and fill in the employee’s name and the precon-figured fields. Using workflow, the form initiates anddirects the entire HR process including approval andupdate. This is technically done by a new tool that takesthe data from the form and updates the master data. Walkthrough a demonstration that illustrates how to set upprocesses. Find out how to link the employee, the man-ager, and the HR administrator with an easy-to-use, intu-itive interface that connects to the back-end SAP system.Leverage SAP workflow and authorizations to trigger aclosed loop solution no matter who initiates the process.See how to build in an approval framework to route theprocess to the right manager, or to bypass the approvalstep. Understand the unique benefits of the form, such asthe flexibility to augment available fields that are alreadyset up with additional relevant information. Hear about itsability to track the life of the request to see where it is inthe process. Take away tips for using the form to boost thevalue of your shared service center, and ease the burdenon HR administration by automating key processes thathave required manual inputs up to now!

What’s new in mySAP ERP TravelManagement Take a detailed and up-to-date look at SAP TravelManagement. Compare the latest release with previousreleases and drill down into the latest value-added fea-tures. Learn how SAP Travel Management provides youwith options and technology to better manage end-to-end employee travel and expenses. Walk through a com-plete demo, including trip planning, expenses, approvals,customized expense forms, and reporting. Learn howyou can track corporate spending with key suppliers forairlines, hotels, and car rentals. Identify and audit high-risk corporate travelers and incorporate your own travelpolicies and procedures. Learn how to implement andmanage policy exceptions. Discover new functionality inmySAP ERP, including consistent user interfaces, triprouting suggestions, interactive maps, and user travelprofiles. Navigate key prerequisites and implementationchallenges. Find out how SAP’s programming model,Web Dynpro, offers customizable templates and stylesheets for customizing user screens so the interfacelooks like the rest of your portal.

A comprehensive guide to SAP Mobile Time and TravelGet anytime, anywhere access to travel expense andtime management with SAP Mobile Time and Travel. Takea detailed look at how a key component of the SAPNetWeaver platform, Mobile Infrastructure (MI), enablesthe latest release of SAP Mobile Time and Travel, fromfunctionality and usability enhancements to a morestreamlined user interface. See how users and timeapprovers can customize their own time entry interfacesand quickly generate time sheet reports remotely oroffline. Walk through a demo and see how the travelexpense component provides mobile data entry withback-end synchronization, instant error notification, andonline or offline data validations. Make workflows moreefficient and take advantage of automatic triggering offollow-on steps in your time approval and travel manage-ment process flows. Enable credit card clearing andobtain more productivity from your travelers by using thereceipt wizard for offline expense entry. Hear how SAP’spartner strategy for multimodal device capability alignswith your own technology direction and choice of mobiledevice.

Transform employees into innovatorswith SAP Learning Solution Gain new strategies to bolster the skill sets of your in-house talent as an alternative to acquiring new personneland as a means to foster innovation. Get expert advice onhow to reduce learning costs, streamline businessprocesses, and differentiate your organization by maxi-mizing learning and exploiting analytics. Step through thecapabilities of SAP Learning Solution and see how it inte-grates with your core mySAP HCM components,including competency catalogs, content management,collaboration tools, and employee learning and perform-ance data. SAP Learning Solution is fully integrated withmySAP ERP and is the only solution that brings HCMdata together with a learning management system (LMS)and learning content management system (LCMS) in oneapplication. Explore the collaborative power of SAPLearning Solution and see examples of how you can linkcollaboration rooms to specific courses to allowemployees to share information, documents, and websites. See SAP Learning Solution for yourself with a com-prehensive demonstration. Get a look at the latest fea-tures in mySAP ERP 2005, including new correspon-dence and follow-up functionality.

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What’s new in Talent Development inmySAP ERP HCMTake a fresh look at the challenges and opportunities oftalent management and the role it plays today in corporatestrategy. See which tools allow you to manage the end-to-end talent process in your organization, allowing both HRassociates and managers to identify and address talentgaps in the context of corporate strategy. See how themySAP ERP HCM processes of SAP E-Recruiting, suc-cession planning, employee performance management,competency management, and learning are integratedtogether to form a consolidated Talent Management suite.Understand how that integration enables your managersnot only to drive talent functions more efficiently, but alsoto measure the effectiveness of those efforts. Review the“talent management imperative” many HR professionalsface in attracting, retaining, and deploying key talent. Getreal-world examples of how mySAP ERP HCM function-ality provides tools to overcome them. Exploit the syner-gies of a completely integrated talent management solu-tion and learn what it takes from a technical and aresource standpoint to implement and manage your orga-nization’s talent management processes using mySAPERP HCM.

Getting started with Mendocino:Implementation do’s, don’ts andrequirementsMendocino, the new solution designed to bridge the gapbetween SAP’s enterprise solutions and the MicrosoftOffice productivity suite, provides unprecedented busi-ness and information integration. Discover the planning,requirements, and effort required to implementMendocino in your SAP HR and payroll environment. Getestimated timelines for installation and configuration ofMendocino, and identify key activities and critical pathsfor technical, functional and development teams. Walkaway with a detailed understanding of the technicalrequirements, including minimum system requirementsand SAP and Microsoft version dependencies. Examinekey configuration considerations for Microsoft Office thatenable Mendocino scenarios such as time reporting andleave management. Improve your knowledge ofMendocino configuration settings and features to embedMendocino in your self-services portfolio. Gain an insightinto security and authorization pitfalls and learn how toavoid them. Prepare your system administration teamwith expert advice on Support Packages and updateprocesses. See Mendocino in action with demos fromreal-life preview customers and benefit from their experi-ences and lessons learned.

Empower talent developers with thenew Talent Management Specialist roleOver the last few years, SAP has introduced talent man-agement functions such as succession planning, per-formance management, and educational development.mySAP ERP 2005 adds new tools that provide a commonidentity and functional view for talent developers chargedwith managing these tasks. Take a first look at the newTalent Management Specialist role and see its uniqueand valuable combination of HR master data, successionplanning, performance management, and organizationalmanagement access. Discover how a role dedicated totalent developers helps you review content and optimizethe talent management processes in your organization bymore tightly controlling the views and authorizationsassigned to users. Compare this role’s access andprocess monitoring capabilities with your current talentmanagement roles. Evaluate how this role empowersyour talent management professionals with the latesttools and analysis, including alerts, monitoring reports,and organizational charting tools with which to view suc-cession structures.

Manage employees on globalassignments in SAP R/3 EnterpriseThis session provides best practices to manage employeeswho are on global assignments. Delivered with the stan-dard SAP R/3 Enterprise release, global employment func-tionality supports the entire administration process, auto-matically, from the planning of the international assignmentto execution of the transfer and subsequent maintenance.See how to start an action between the host HR depart-ment, its international support department, and the homeHR team. Discover how to initiate the planning phases andsubsequent activation phase to trigger workflow betweenhost and home departments. Walk through the automaticsalary calculation, and see how to customize the checklistto detail critical requirements, such as housing, interculturaltraining, work permits, and visas. Learn what can causedelays in transfers, such as poor data quality or incompletecompany policies that document international employmentstandards. Get tips to prevent these delays. Look at theSAP reporting tools that help track global employees, andsee how to set up a query to view whereabouts and dura-tion of stay. Compare and contrast global employment andconcurrent employment and learn how to best address theunique differences.


Perform calculations in SAP Query withno programming! Receive complete step-by-step instructions and helpfulexamples that show you how to perform basic andadvanced calculations in SAP Query reports — nocoding required. Discover how to create calculated fieldsin SAP Query, from basic calculations (e.g., subtract hiredate from current date to determine length of service) tomore complex “if…then” statements. Unleash the powerof local fields and selection screen entries to perform SAPQuery calculations traditionally executed with ABAP pro-gramming. Learn how to add symbols and color icons toyour report to highlight entries (e.g., red flag any asso-ciate under the minimum pay for their pay grade). Explorehow you can easily maximize graphics such as charts toshowcase your SAP Query reports in various formats.Take home a guide that shows you how to take full advan-tage of selections screens and calculations to add furtherspecifications your reports. Find out how you canempower both basic and advanced users to create cal-culations without any ABAP training. Understand youroptions with SAP Query’s report output and discover thevarious choices for your SAP Query output via the toolbar.

Tips to automate and secure your SAP queries and custom reportsLearn how to take full advantage of the options SAP pro-vides for scheduling reports and to default dynamicselection criteria (failure to do so can rob your team ofvaluable resource time and expose your organization toaudit and compliance problems). Drill down into the dif-ferent methods for automating queries and reports thatrun periodically, such as service anniversaries andbirthday lists. Get valuable tips to configure your systemto direct report output to a shared folder or even to SAPinboxes and external email accounts. Improve the secu-rity in your reporting environment by utilizing user groupsto control who can execute and change queries andensure that only authorized users can access scheduledqueries. Bonus: Take home an example of ABAP user exitcode that enhances the automation of your queries.

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HR and payroll reporting and analyticsCase Study

Rolling out SAP Business Intelligence forHR reporting at Avid Walk through the decision points Avid grappled with as itimplemented SAP BW to support its HR objectives. Learnfirsthand how Avid, a world leader in digital media cre-ation tools for film, video, audio, animation, gaming, andbroadcast professionals, honed its reporting strategiesand simplified queries for users. See how Avid is able toaddress challenges associated with data requirementsand a diverse user base. Walk through its approach todetermine what its reporting requirements are, and howthese efforts translated into a data model design. Get aroadmap to establish or update your company’s HR dataneeds and ensure successful SAP BW usability.Determine how to choose HR InfoCubes to satisfy largenumbers of queries from disparate sources. See howAvid leveraged out-of-the-box functionality for headcountreporting, compensation management, and planning, aswell as the standard tools that offer slice-and-dice capa-bilities to format reports. Gain insights as to the chal-lenges around change management and user adoption.

Tips and best practices to create highlysuccessful HR reporting strategiesSAP HR implementations traditionally focus on acceler-ating, automating and reducing the cost of HRprocesses. Many organizations discover in hindsight thatthis focus fails to address the critical need to use andreport on HR data once the implementation is complete.Get tips and best practices to develop a successful HRreporting strategy and learn why a tool-centric strategy isa stepping stone for HR organizations as they considerreporting solutions. Walk through the 5 steps for buildinga tool-centric reporting strategy, including how to docu-ment the current and new reporting environments, iden-tify reporting stakeholders and reporting tools, mapreporting tools to the requirements, and make toolsaccessible to the right users. Know your reporting optionsin HR as you compare and contrast standard SAPreports, Ad Hoc Query and BW, to see which tool or com-bination of tools makes the most sense for you. Put yourreporting strategy in context as you trace the evolution ofHR reporting, and see how the move from transactionalto analytical reporting impacts your ability to deliver datato your organization.

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Tap the reporting power of the SAP HR mini-master Many SAP shops have to contend with multiple enterpriseand legacy systems and require global data strategiesthat consolidate data elements from disparate systemsinto one reporting solution. Maximize the effectiveness ofyour global reporting needs and get detailed adviceabout how to implement an SAP HR mini-master to tran-sition data from legacy systems into SAP. Learn the min-imum requirements for utilizing the HR mini-master andcome away with tips and tricks for global configuration ofmini-master infotypes. Discover how to use third-partymiddleware such as Informatica to improve the accuracyand efficiency of data conversions by validating,cleansing, and transforming data before it reaches SAP.Enhance your BW reports by utilizing HR mini-masterdata elements and take home design considerations toenhance BW extractors. Explore the intricacies ofextracting data from PeopleSoft HR and find out how toavoid the most common problems that occur during thisprocess.

How to answer the toughest HRquestions that management is askingFor years, human resource professionals have wanted tomeasure their effectiveness and impact on the business,but have lacked the tools to do so — until now. Learn howmySAP ERP 2005 can improve your HR reportingprocesses, increase the efficacy of your data, and helpyou create meaningful statistics. See how SAP EmployeeSelf-Service (ESS) and Manager Self-Service (MSS) pro-vide real-time data input and how you can effectively inte-grate that information in your HR reporting. Discoverwhich SAP data models and functionality you need to getthe right information for your reporting, and to develop anexceptionally significant HR balanced scorecard toinclude metrics that cover relevant data such as financialvalue, internal customer statistics, HR managementspend figures and employer process benchmarking.Review SAP toolsets available to you — from SAP Queryreports to SAP BI — and learn how to best apply each todrive reporting success in your organization. Take homeexamples of useful metrics for all functions of HR —recruiting, benefits, personnel administration, compensa-tion, training, and talent management.

Create, integrate, and maintain your HR forms: No programming required!Compare SmartForms and SAPscript forms tools, andlearn when and how to create HR forms with each. Stepthrough a demo that shows you how to create a timecardform and examine how the form is integrated into a timerecording business process. Take home a list of standardSAP HR SmartForms and get tips and tricks to modifyexisting SmartForms. Discover creative ways to slash thetime and effort required to generate forms. See how youcan scan existing documents to serve as a base for dupli-cate forms in SmartForms. Improve the usability of yourforms and find out what is required to convert yourSmartForms output to PDF files. Take home an exampleof an XML-based SmartForm that you can load and useas a template in your own system. Save time andresources with step-by-step instructions that show youhow to modify your current remuneration statement con-figuration in SAP to generate a web-based ESS remuner-ation statement.

HR KPIs: Measure the right metricsthrough SAP BW and SEM Turbocharge your HR reporting beyond foundational sta-tistics such as hiring and turnover reporting. DevelopKPIs that calculate value, not just personnel activity. Getexpert advice on how to choose the right HR KPIs for yourcompany. Learn the configuration and SAP content areasthat enable you to obtain the most meaningful KPIs.Examine the differences between activity KPIs and valueKPIs, and learn how to determine when each is appro-priate. As a bonus, take home a sample core set of each.Explore best practices for developing HR SEM BalancedScorecards, including identifying the potential dimen-sions of the scorecard and the best KPIs for each dimen-sion. Walk away with a sample core HR balanced score-card layout. Relate your HR KPIs to Strategic EnterpriseManagement (SEM) Cockpit applications to maximizeyour SEM and BW investments.

The right data,

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Create point-in-time and historicalreporting for HR with SAP BW See how one company built an SAP BW reporting solutionthat tracks historical reports, as well as creates forward-looking reports that illustrate the impact of an aging work-force. Hear how they forecast skills shortages due topotential retirements. See how you can use SAP BW to gobeyond traditional HR reporting applications that merelycount and track historical data. Discover the nuances ofHR reporting in SAP and learn how SAP BW handles theuniqueness of HR dates and data. Walk through steps tocreate an HR dashboard with standard development toolssuch as JavaScript and Business Server Pages (BSPs).Hear lessons for tailoring your dashboard content to thelevel and sophistication of your management audience.Deliver meaningful HR reports that are tailored to yourenvironment and examine how data standardization iscritical to produce accurate results. Walk away with valu-able tips and tricks to ensure a successful HR/BW rolloutand to organize your content, delivery, and training toguarantee user acceptance and adoption.

Query tool configuration for the entireSAP Query tools familyReview what you need to configure in R/3 in order to useHR/Payroll reporting tools such as SAP Query, Ad HocQuery (InfoSet Query), and QuickViewer. Learn what yourorganization must decide to succeed in deploying thesetools. Get detailed expert recommendations for theadministrative strategy you establish to deploy tools. Gettips on how to best configure Query groups. Learn howto configure InfoSets and how to use logical databases.Get important do’s and don’ts for transport maintenanceand client deployment. This session also offers bestpractices to administer query-related tools in HR andpayroll modules. Attend this session to learn everythingyou need to know to set up this tool. Additional sessions(check your guide!) cover SAP Query tool usage and howto use the SAP Query for advanced calculations.

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Generate InfoSets with custom datasources and custom fields to optimizeyour reportingGive your team the ability to run SAP reports on their ownand minimize the number of service requests to HRInformation System (HRIS). Sharpen your reportingknowledge as you explore when and why you should usedirect table reads and see how you can utilize them tocreate InfoSets. Learn how to build your own InfoSetsfrom custom data sources to reduce your dependenceon individual Access databases and Excel spreadsheets.Learn how to develop InfoSets without a predefined log-ical database as your data source and how to form effi-cient table joins to maximize query performance. Takehome tips for constructing InfoSets from a single table ormultiple tables. Walk away with the best methods tocreate InfoSets using table joins.

Tips and tricks for HR/Payroll reporting:Everything you need to know to createreports with SAP Get valuable, undocumented tips and hints on how to uti-lize SAP Query to create meaningful, comprehensive SAPHR and SAP Payroll reports. Leverage SAP Query forreal-time access to relevant data so you can make moreinformed business decisions and optimally evaluateemployees, the organization, and the impact of HR andPayroll functions on the entire company. Understand whySAP Query is the most powerful report-writing tool deliv-ered with SAP R/3 that HR and Payroll professionals canuse without technical training! Find out how to quicklyand effectively create reports from the data stored inSAP’s Personnel Administration (PA), PersonnelDevelopment (PD), Compensation, Benefits, and Payrollapplications. Unearth everything you need to know aboutthis tool, including its basic and advanced screens, plustips and tricks for reporting on PD and PA data in a singlereport, inserting subtotals into your reports, and reportingon payroll results.

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Best practices to manage FLSAcompliance and reportingLearn about the latest regulatory changes from the USDepartment of Labor (DOL) Fair Labor Standards Act(FLSA), their impact on your compliance activities, andhow they alter the way companies report and regulateovertime pay. Get best practices to prepare forDepartment of Labor (DOL) audits, minimize your auditexposure, avoid costly penalties, and demonstrate com-pliance in the event of a DOL audit or lawsuit. Get valu-able tips to properly assess your jobs for compliance.See a demo of a context-sensitive web-based tool thatwalks you through the assessment. Reduce your laborcosts by incorporating more thorough job assessmentreporting into your SAP environment. Hear how leadingcompanies use custom reports in SAP to track whoshould receive overtime pay. Learn what tools are avail-able to help you troubleshoot to determine whether youare currently paying overtime correctly. Leverage customreports to build your own strategy for a complete FLSAcompliance plan that satisfies your internal auditors andminimizes corporate risk.

Guidelines and best practices forleveraging standard SAP functionalityfor career and succession planningAs more and more employees reach retirement age,career and succession planning may become one of themost strategic areas of HR service delivery in the next fiveyears. Review the core concepts of career and succes-sion planning in SAP and receive best practices for usingthis standard functionality in your organization. Explorethe building blocks of career and succession planning inSAP and understand how to configure and report upondesignations, potentials, preferences, and qualificationsto provide effective analytics. Improve your successionprocesses and reduce your corporate risk by using thecomplete planning functionality, including profile match-ups, careers, and the qualifications catalog. Discoverhow you can empower your managers by taking advan-tage of your SAP portal to push functionality to morelayers of management. Walk through a demo of a web-based career and succession planning solution for yourportal that integrates employee competency with skillsinformation, education, past experience, and career aspi-rations and includes real-time updates of successionplanning information back to your R/3 system.

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Talent and compensationmanagementAlign HR strategy and workforce cost planning and analysis with SAP Personnel Cost Planning Learn new techniques to align your human capital withyour company’s overall business processes and strate-gies. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the SAPPersonnel Cost Planning (PCP) tool. See how you canplan personnel costs for the current and next year. Andsee how to do this in concert with your overall planning,budgeting, and strategy initiatives, and based upon abroad range of HR and payroll data. Leverage theimproved integration between PCP and CompensationManagement to create compensation budgets and what-if scenarios and view a demo of how these two compo-nents work together. Get valuable tips for monitoringplanned vs. actual budget comparisons. Walk throughthe entire PCP budgeting and planning process, fromcreation and integration of data to the release of planneddata to the Compensation Management module. Leavethis session with a solid understanding of the capabilitiesand requirements of the Personnel Cost Planning tool.

Case StudyImproving objective setting andappraisals with mySAP ERP at NOVA Chemicals Find out how NOVA Chemicals, a producer of com-modity plastics and chemicals employing more than4,000 people worldwide, leverages mySAP ERP andSAP’s portal for objective setting and appraisals. Get anoverview of the performance and development processat NOVA Chemicals. Hear firsthand how it implementedSAP functionality for objective setting and appraisals tohelp employees and leaders identify objectives, managedevelopment planning, track performance, conduct self-assessments and reviews, and tie ratings back to com-pensation. Learn from NOVA Chemicals’ experiences,including how it overcame gaps in reporting functionality,addressed split records, managed complex securityrequirements, developed meaningful Manager Self-Service (MSS) iViews and reports for managers, andidentified the limitations of delivered functionality as wellas areas available for enhancement. Walk away with anunderstanding of the issues NOVA Chemicals facedwhen it tried to incorporate qualifications into its docu-ments. Get tips on change management to ensure asmooth introduction of new portal-based functionalityincluding Employee Self-Service (ESS) and MSS.



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Case StudyHow and why Tyson Foods transitionedfrom a highly customized recruitmentapplication to standard SAPconfiguration Hear a first-hand account of how and why Tyson tookdrastic steps to overhaul and re-implement its entirerecruitment solution. Gain insight into how the team atTyson stabilized its data during the re-implementation,including the difficult process of removing over one mil-lion records to retain data integrity, protect historicaldata, and accommodate the new configuration. Find outhow this project enabled Tyson to significantly stream-line configuration and groupings in SAP. Learn howTyson leveraged its new configuration to more efficientlyand effectively manage its Affirmative Action and EEOcompliance reporting. Walk through the project stepsfrom pre-implementation to post go-live and gather valu-able advice on what worked and what didn’t for testing,training of decentralized users in over 250 hiring centers,and the overall change management process. Receivean update on the current state of the company’s end-to-end recruitment process, including interfaces to externalsystems and transfer of data to and from SAP in supportof Tyson’s overall e-recruitment goals and strategy.

SAP E-Recruiting 3.0: Early experiencesand success storiesLearn how and why organizations are leveraging SAPE-Recruiting 3.0 either as a standalone recruitmentsolution or as an integrated component of an overallenterprise application strategy. Look at early adopters’experiences with E-Recruiting, including insights fromthe world’s first productive customer, and draw valu-able lessons from successes and challenges. Discoverthe best blend of skill sets to have on hand for an E-Recruiting project and take home project team struc-ture examples, both large and small. Receive tips forcreating an E-Recruiting strategy. Learn why stressingprocess efficiency and integration to the existing coremySAP ERP functionality is the key to a successfulbusiness case. Get a frank appraisal of E-Recruiting’sstrengths and limitations, including functionality gapslike psychometric testing and resume parsing, andhear how customers have addressed these gaps.Prepare for future releases and evaluate how E-Recruiting fits into your overall talent managementstrategy and how you can soon exploit SAP ExchangeInfrastructure (XI) to maximize interfaces for third-partyintegration.

Case StudyHow InBev bolstered its talent, appraisal,and succession planning processesGet a behind-the-scenes look at how one of the world’sleading brewers initiated a global project to bettermanage its internal talent, succession planning, and con-tinuity processes via R/3 Enterprise. Hear firsthand howInBev uses R/3 Enterprise to define, gather, and exploitcritical talent and appraisal data in one consistentprocess and language across the globe. Pinpoint howInBev tracks employee preferences, targets the degree ofpotential, and maps global competencies in SAP.Examine how this approach fits into InBev’s strategicpeople continuity planning process. Discover how SAPNetWeaver Portal enables InBev managers and businessleaders around the world to maintain and accessemployee data. Understand why aligning the workforcewith company goals is critical to an enterprise-widepeople continuity process. Walk away with real-life les-sons learned from a human resource and strategic per-spective. Leverage InBev’s experience in managingchange in its continuity planning and garner importantadvice about how to clearly communicate an enterprise-wide people continuity program to employees..How to achieve integrated enterprisecompensation management withmySAP ERPThis session offers new insight into the benefits, chal-lenges, and requirements of integrated enterprise com-pensation strategies. Learn what mySAP ERP capabilitiesare available to build a unified platform for compensationmanagement and how to leverage them to improve yourtalent management, employee reward processes andcompensation administration with enterprise compensa-tion management. See how the compensation planningtool in Manager Self-Service (MSS) allows managers toview and approve merit, bonus, and long-term incentiveincreases online, helping you identify and reward top per-formers in your organization and improve retention ratesand employee morale. Explore SAP workforce planningand budgeting capabilities. Learn new techniques to inte-grate your internal and external salary survey data and toperform comparative analyses and job pricing. Learnhow your strategies for enterprise compensation man-agement and objective setting and appraisals shouldalign. Find out how to reduce manager uncertainty andimprove consistency in compensation practices by uti-lizing improved compensation reporting options.

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How to configure overtimecompensation to meet FLSA standardsand avoid needless overtime pay The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes stan-dards that address minimum overtime pay for workers inthe private sector and in federal, state, and local govern-ments. Get an overview of the FLSA overtime require-ments and review the SAP system prerequisites to ensurethat you are in FLSA compliance without incurring unnec-essary overtime expenses. Explore the building blocks ofthe overtime compensation configuration and hear expertadvice about the most efficient way to configure SAPPayroll elements such as rules, schemas, functions, pro-cessing classes, and workweeks. Step through theprocess of calculating the “regular rate of pay” used inFLSA processing and analyze best practices to achieveaccurate results in your payroll system. Go beyond stan-dard configuration and take away tips for exploitingadvanced topics related to overtime calculation, such asconcurrent employment, workweek rollovers, wage typeoffsets, and non-discretionary bonuses. Receive real-world examples that illustrate an FLSA overtime calcula-tion under concurrent and non-concurrent employmentscenarios.

Tips and techniques to customizeenterprise compensation management This session illustrates the tools available to you to cus-tomize enterprise compensation management (ECM)functionality in mySAP ERP HCM 4.7 Extension set 2.0,and SAP Manager Self Service (MSS). Walk through thestandard ECM functionality in 5 core areas (budgeting,job pricing, appraisals, pay increases and bonuses) andlearn how to use Business Add-Ins (BADIs), iViews andcustom infotypes to tailor ECM to your business needs.See how to generate budgets without the PersonnelCost Planning module based on percentages and eligi-bility. Create custom iViews to capture final ratings usingMSS in a spreadsheet format. Discover how to applycomplex rules to calculate a pay raise or bonus usingBADIs and learn how to update bonus cost centers ifthey are different from the default cost center. Arm man-agers with the tools they need to determine payincreases with a demonstration on how to use functionmodules to augment information, such as the time spenton the current job. Learn how to capture targets andmultipliers for bonus calculations. Find out how to makemodifications to remove employees from MSS who areineligible for pay raises due to temporary or seasonalemployment situations.

How your peers attract and retain thebest candidates with SAP E-Recruiting Discover how top organizations use the applicant pro-cessing capabilities within SAP E-Recruiting to attractand retain top quality candidates. Gain new insights intoapplicant behavior and get new ideas to adapt your tech-nology and processes accordingly. For example, dis-cover why the passive job seeker is willing to spend onlyfive to seven minutes in an application process. Learnhow you can use your investment in SAP to streamlinethat process and capture those candidates. Walk throughan analysis of your own recruitment landscape. Learnnew ways to broaden your candidate pool through jobboards, associations, and social networks. Minimize themanual effort of your online candidates by using solu-tions such as resume parsing and streamlined interfacesthat reduce required typing and mouse clicks. Get out-of-the-box ideas for process improvement and take home alist of the most common e-recruitment changes compa-nies are making, including improved communicationthrough messaging and the creation of a “quick apply”designed with a smaller number of container sequencesto speed the process. Examine the four data elementsmaintained in SAP that allow you to accurately track thecost of a vacancy to your organization and leveragethese and other analytics to judge the efficacy of yourown recruitment processes.

Tap into position budgeting and controlfor a more accurate view of yourpersonnel costs Employ mySAP ERP Position Budgeting and Control(PBC) to achieve better control over personnel costs.Explore key PBC features that offer visibility into and con-trol over funding, accountability, and organizationalresponsibility. Find out how you can leverage PBC to geta more accurate picture of exact personnel costs. Drawvaluable lessons from the experiences of two publicsector customers who leverage mySAP ERP to ensurefunding for positions, calculate full-time equivalent (FTE)values, enhance their internal workforce planningprocesses, and precisely plan, budget, and report ontheir workforce. Get expert advice on how to useCommitment Processor to create budgets in FundsManagement (FM) and examine the complete integrationof PBC with both FM and Controlling (CO). Uncover howPBC enables you to better manage position-related func-tionalities such as lock, reclassification, and deletionnotes to control personnel budgeting processes. Walkaway with real-world examples of commitmentprocesses. Bonus: take home a checklist with detailedconfiguration steps to implement and optimize PBC.

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themselvesWeb Dynpro and ESS: Maximize yourdevelopment options for self-serviceapplicationsTake a look at the new Web Dynpro capabilities forEmployee Self-Service (ESS). Web Dynpro introduces anentirely new Java development component for ESS alongwith exciting enhancements in navigation and usability,including a robust development platform for Java-basedJ2EE and iView development and built-in support fordeployment on SAP’s Web Application Server. Get anoverview of the new ESS architecture and compare andcontrast older versions of ESS with the new Web Dynpro-enabled ESS. Discover where new Java componentsreside and how they may impact your development infra-structure. Step through a proven, detailed installationplan for ESS that includes ESS business packages andJava components. Come away with best practices forenabling Single Sign-On between your portal and SAPand for setting up the System Landscape Directory andJava Connectors. Explore the 4 most important ESS factsto know if you have never implemented ESS. Take homean overview of how to modify Web Dynpro-enabled ESSservices to conform to your business needs. Gatherideas for modifying ESS menu layouts and for trans-porting content to other portal environments.

Automate personnel change requests(PCRs) with minimal effortPersonnel change requests (PCRs) reduce costs associ-ated with HR forms processing, improve data quality, andstreamline operations of HR service centers. Learn whenand how you should automate processing of HR servicerequests with PCR technology. Learn how to adopt PCRsin any current SAP environment — from SAP R/3 4.6Cwithout the SAP portal to mySAP ERP with Web Dynpro-based Manager Self-Service (MSS). Walk away from thissession with a clear understanding of what SAP deliversstandard and how to enhance the PCR through configu-ration and custom development. Get tips on how toaddress common issues like delegating request submis-sions and approvals, error handling in automatedrequests, validating data, and integrating position mainte-nance with Personnel Administration (PA) requests. Drawfrom the experiences of those who implemented PCRs asyou review actual projects and see a demo of a PCR-based self-service application in a 4.6C/ITS environment.

Case StudyHow and why Royal and Sun AllianceInsurance transformed its absence andlong-term illness processesRoyal and Sun Alliance Insurance, a leading, globalBritish insurance group, had a key business objective —to identify and then transform the primary HR transac-tions that drain resources, tie up labor, and cause dupli-cation and constant errors. Using a predictive model, aRoyal and Sun project team identified management ofabsence and long-term illness cases as the key transac-tion in need of transformation. It then developed a newsolution using the SAP NetWeaver Portal (formerly knownas SAP Enterprise Portal) 6.0. Hear a firsthand account ofhow Royal and Sun, which operates in 50+ countries with27,000 employees, met its business requirements with acustomized version of Manager Self-Service (MSS) usingreal-time absence and overtime data. Get step-by-stepdetails of the move from a paper-based process thatinvolved multiple handlers and 30+ fields, to a three-field,online form that managers could quickly and readilyrespond to — with minimal training! Examine the out-of-the-box MSS options that the Royal and Sun team con-sidered before building the customized absence man-agement solution, such as SAP Cross-Application TimeSheet (CATS). Get best practices to create user inter-faces. See how to manage work schedule exceptionswithout adversely affecting Payroll. Assess when to useJava instead of ABAP. Uncover configuration tips tocreate structural authorizations that empower managerswith a hierarchy of users to streamline access. Take homesample code to ensure your employees don’t lose payunnecessarily when entitlements run out.

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HR service delivery via the web,portal, MSS, and ESS


Case StudyHow Compass Group planned,developed, and integrated itscustomized MSS applicationHear a firsthand account of how Compass Group, theworld’s largest food service company, planned anddeveloped a custom self-service application using thestandard Manager Self-Service (MSS) framework on SAPNetWeaver ‘04 and SAP R/3 4.6C. Look at how CompassGroup built custom-developed MSS processes thatupdate R/3 directly to avoid unnecessary involvementfrom HR administrators for approval and workflow. Gettips and best practices to develop direct updates viafunction modules and Batch Data Commands (BDC).Learn how the Compass Group development team over-came data validation concerns and resolved dynamicactions in its custom development. Learn how CompassGroup resolved the internal debate over whether to useJavaServer Pages (JSPs) or Web Dynpro to develop thefront end. Hear how the company settled the issue ofwhether to use workflow for approvals and data valida-tion. See what kind of custom relationships the companyrequired in organizational management to meet its secu-rity and workflow needs. Walk through the project planand take home a complete technical overview of theCompass Group MSS project, including a high-level dis-cussion of the technical workflow of its MSS solution.

9 differentiators that characterizesuccessful self-service implementations Maximize the benefits of your ESS or MSS deploymentwith nine key differentiators that characterize a successfulportal-based self-service implementation. Review recentportal implementations to learn what worked and whatdidn’t. Get lessons to manage project risk and discoverwhy allowing technology to drive your portal andESS/MSS project instead of business requirements couldlead to failure. Examine real-world project approachesand identify three portal implementation approaches toavoid. Step through a “how to” guide designed for portaland ESS/MSS implementation managers. Get tips andtricks to administer the implementation, including how tofoster executive sponsorship, integrate IT strategy, trainusers, establish governance policies, and assureongoing engagement of portal owners.

Case StudyHow Avid launched and now managesits portal, MSS, and ESS Get an in-depth tour of Avid’s SAP Enterprise Portal (nowknown as SAP NetWeaver Portal) — from evaluationthrough proof of concept — and its current implementa-tion of Manager Self-Service (MSS) and Employee Self-Service (ESS). Review the business and technical consid-erations upon which Avid based its decisions. See whatcontent it elected to introduce first and why, such as ESSfor benefits enrollment and for maintaining master data.Hear how Avid manages ongoing decisions about portalcontent delivery. Get important tips as to which ESS func-tions to offer employees and what to hold back, such asaddress information that may affect tax and benefits.Learn some of the challenges Avid faced when migratingfrom its Domino platform to SAP, including deciding whatcontent to move and what to leave behind. Take a look atthe automation tools that were beneficial, such as LegacySystem Migration Workbench (LSMW). Take home secu-rity insights that will help you decide what managersshould or should not see in MSS. Find out how Aviddefines “manager” and understand the impact of thatdecision on accessing reports and possible workflowdesign. Get tips to make sure your implementation isaligned for future upgrades and long-term strategies.

Web-enable SAP content in your portalframework: When is it right for you?Get guidelines to develop and present SAP content inyour portal. See how you can incorporate content fromSAP back-end systems into your SAP portal, Plumtree,BEA, WebSphere, or any other J2EE engine. Develop astrategy and business case for when and why to investi-gate custom development, and align your developmentapproach with your technology to ensure compatibilitywith future releases of SAP and SAP NetWeaver Portal.Receive ABAP and Java tips and tricks to make the mostof your existing internal developers’ skill sets and pinpointwhen to use each language. Examine ABAP rules andbest practices for web-enabling SAP content and walkthrough how to program Remote Function Calls (RFCs)for web integration with ABAP. Explore your Java optionsand examine real-world examples of when you shouldcode your RFCs with web services. Watch a demo of SAPNetWeaver Portal integration that demonstrates a simpleRFC call web-enabled with paging and RFC integrationvia web services. Take home examples of ABAP and Javaframeworks and walk away with 10 guidelines to help yousucceed in integrating custom development into yourportal environment.

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Case StudyRSA Security’s “secure” implementationof SAP Manager Self-Service in R/3Security of employee data is always a primary concern inany rollout of a manager self-service application. Hearwhat precautions RSA Security, a computer security com-pany, took when implementing SAP Manager Self-Service(MSS). Get a detailed overview of the MSS technologyand functionality RSA leveraged, including PersonnelChange Requests (PCRs), and see firsthand how much“out-of-the box” functionality RSA used. Gauge yourcompany’s readiness and current skill sets by examiningthe infrastructure and support team RSA Security lever-aged for their implementation. Walk through the criticalimplementation and design considerations forapproaching an MSS project and review RSA’s R/3 con-figuration steps. Take home detailed instructions for thebest ways to execute your own MSS implementation,including guidelines for preparing your organizationalstructure, implementing structural authorizations, andintegrating key workflow components.

Save money with SAP Manager’sDesktop, a low-cost alternative to MSSWhile many companies are rushing to implement SAP’sportal-based Manager Self-Service (MSS) solutions,many others are either still contemplating the size andexpense of a portal or simply don’t have the necessaryresources. Explore how Manager’s Desktop can intro-duce self-service to your managers quickly and at a lowercost compared to a large-scale MSS project. See howManager’s Desktop can bridge the gap before your MSSsolution is funded and rolled out. Get detailed instructionabout the structure of Manager’s Desktop, see what itcan do for your managers, and discover what you cancustomize to meet your own self-service needs and max-imize manager acceptance. Walk through real-worldexamples of Manager’s Desktop functionality and getstep-by-step instructions to tailor it to fit different audi-ences or types of managers. Take home examples ofcustom code that explain how to create and modifyManager’s Desktop function codes and column configu-ration. Garner expert advice about how to implementchanges to your own environment. Examine the securityrequirements for using Manager’s Desktop and walkaway with answers about the effort you’ll need to secureManager’s Desktop via structural authorizations.

Track 5 continuedCould you, should you, and how wouldyou web-enable processes forrecruiting, appraisal, reward systems,development, and succession planningTake your talent management applications to a wideraudience and get tips and tricks to web-enable recruiting,appraisals, reward systems, and succession planning.Discover why it’s important to plan and align your busi-ness processes before pushing them out via the web andlearn potential process redesign pitfalls to avoid.Examine what others are doing to web-enable their talentmanagement functions and draw lessons from their suc-cesses and setbacks. Compare different approaches fordelivering functionality via the web, including the SAPportal and non-SAP solutions. Get detailed descriptionsof the technology you’ll need to succeed in a web envi-ronment. Walk through real-world examples of bothemployee and manager self-service applications thatchange the way you manage data and see why, whenimplemented properly, most companies experiencereduced cost and process times of up to 70% for keyemployee lifecycle functions.


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HR and Payroll implementation bestpractices: Testing, data conversion,and cutover Drill down into the risks that data conversion, testing andcutover activities present to payroll implementationteams. Learn how to manage these activities to ensure asuccessful project, data accuracy, and sound payrollprocesses. Get tips and tricks to prepare your legacydata for conversion, including an assessment of yoursystem landscape that could bring unwanted exposure toyour project. Develop a solid and efficient conversionmethodology that not only reduces testing errors, butalso addresses key pain points such as what to do withyour legacy historical data. Get practical advice forproject planning, including how to schedule and allocateenough time for each round of testing prior to cutover.Walk away with lessons to conduct parallel testing and toproperly analyze data and variances. Examine whatdetermines an acceptable testing variance and how tobalance the competing demands of “on-time, on-budget” versus “100% accuracy” for test results. Mastercutover planning and execution, and garner examples ofproven cutover plans, task lists, and calendars.

Implementing SAP Employee Self-Service (ESS) for benefits enrollment Hear how one company implemented and activated SAPESS for open enrollment. Walk through the configurationsteps to set up both the web server and the R/3 instance,and how to make them properly relate to one another.Discover how certain configuration choices can improvethe online enrollment experience for your employees.Avoid typical mistakes that can introduce problems toSAP ESS enrollment, such as authorization errors for SAPESS-only users. Understand the key infrastructure deci-sions and hardware specifications needed to supportSAP ESS enrollment. Take home sample communicationmaterials developed to encourage employees to use SAPESS enrollment. Gather practical tips for modifying thestandard Internet Transaction Server (ITS) web templatesto make the information more accessible to employees.

Track 6

Payroll, Benefits, and Time ManagementCase Study

Pension administration in SAP HR Payrollat Whirlpool From service administration through pension payroll pro-cessing, Whirlpool uses the HR Payroll module to admin-ister the entire pension life cycle. Through this case study,hear firsthand how Whirlpool built its pension administra-tion process in SAP HR using a mixture of standard func-tionality and third-party software. Get details on how youcan improve your own pension administration by learninghow to use standard SAP benefits functionality to performemployee service calculations. Consider how Whirlpoolenhanced its pension administration process by addinga third-party pension calculation custom development/solution. Get valuable tips for processing pension payrolland 1099R reporting. Walk away with a solid under-standing of how to establish a complete pension solutionin SAP, including the ability to create current and futurescenarios and simulations for planning purposes to helprespond to plan participant inquiries.

Tips and tricks to manage retroactivecalculations in payroll processing Retroactive calculations and off-cycle payrolls are an inte-gral part of payroll processing, but the very nature of thetiming and complexity inherent in retroactivity often posesa unique set of challenges to payroll administrators andfunctional analysts. Master retroactivity in your payroll pro-cessing and educate yourself and your team on what trig-gers retroactivity, how schemas process retroactive calcu-lations, and what effect retroactive calculations have onyour wage types. Discover the differences between auto-matic and forced retroactivity. Walk through an example ofexactly how SAP manages retroactivity based on key set-tings and configuration tables you control. Understandhow the system maintains results during retroactive payrollprocessing and get a handle on the roles the arrears(ARRRS) table and the deductions not taken (DDNTK)table play in storing retroactive calculation differences. Getvaluable wage type configuration tips and review the keysettings in table T51P6 that control how the system han-dles your deductions in retroactive processing. Follow theprocess from start to finish and explore step-by-step exam-ples of retroactive calculations. See how the system storesretroactive calculations in payroll clusters and how retroac-tivity impacts remuneration statements and payrollreporting. Bonus: Receive a flow diagram that explains theprocesses, steps, and input/output tables for each retroac-tive calculation and off-cycle activity.



A step-by-step guide to building aHIPAA benefits enrollment andmaintenance interfaceReview the latest Health Insurance Portability andAccountability Act (HIPAA) X12N standards for compa-nies transmitting employee health plan data electroni-cally. Receive detailed lessons on what you need to actupon to comply when electronically exchanging your SAPBenefits data using transaction set X12N834 BenefitEnrollment and Maintenance. Learn how to map SAPBenefits data to the X12N834 loops and segments. Stepthrough the process to build a completely compliant filewith headers, trailers, transactions sets, and segmentdetails. Explore the employee lifecycle actions that triggerbenefits enrollments or changes. Compare and contrasthow they impact the information transmitted. Get tips forcollaborating early and often with your vendors to ensurea clear understanding of each vendor’s interpretation ofthe standards. Assess pros and cons of the differenttypes of solutions available in the marketplace that canexpedite compliance. Discover how emerging SAP tech-nologies such as Exchange Infrastructure (XI) will impacthow you communicate and transmit data and how suchadvances will accelerate your interface development.

Improve your SAP Payroll remunerationstatement: Tips, tricks, and new insightsfor compliance, formatting, and deliveryThis session delivers tips, tricks, and new insights into themost visible and consistent way a payroll departmentcommunicates with its internal customers — the pay orremuneration statement. Get detailed, expert instructionfor ensuring compliance and improving both the deliverymethod and the appearance of your pay forms. Discusspayroll form compliance issues such as the display ofhourly rates and SSN and get advice to mitigate theseissues or avoid them altogether. Improve the look andfeel of your pay statements and compare and contrastyour form creation options, including SAPscript,SmartForms, HR Forms, and third-party software, todetermine which features best fit your needs. Exploresome of the most commonly used payroll form cus-tomizations, including displaying non-cash items orretroactive information with special notes and addingcompany logos, and find out how you can tailor your formcontent to improve readability and usability. Discover howto make pay statements available through your SAPportal and walk through the necessary configurationsteps and standard iViews available to web-enable yourforms.

The evolution of concurrentemployment and the “central person”Concurrent employment (CE) functionality in SAP HRprovides the ability to manage, report on, and payemployees who are represented by multiple simulta-neous personnel assignments. This concept solves manypayroll and taxation issues for employers but creates alitany of issues for teams charged with managing thedata. Attend this session to learn exactly how CE and thecentral person object work and how they affect end-to-end SAP HR processes. Gain an understanding of howdata sharing works and the importance of determiningthe core master data to be used across all concurrentassignments. Explore the impact using CE has on yourreporting and learn how using the PNPCE logical data-base can affect your queries. Discover the effect CE hason time management and time evaluation. See how youcan evaluate or compare wage types, time balances,messages, and absence quotas differently in concur-rently employed records. Learn how CE affects payrollconfiguration and how the introduction of CE enables theuse of a common paymaster for payroll processing. Stepthrough the payroll process in a CE environment and getdetails on how CE affects schemas and payroll drivers,the use of Tax Reporter, and the posting of results toaccounting.

Look before you leap! New lessons andguidelines for outsourcing Most organizations consider outsourcing of various pay-roll process components at one time or another to con-trol rising payroll costs, reduce risk, or lower headcount.Compare and contrast the different options in terms ofcost to outsource, hidden risks, and potential rewards.Get a detailed analysis of options for outsourcing out-bound master data, payroll tax data, and outboundexport of gross payroll results. Hear lessons learned fromreal-world examples of each. Align your business expec-tations of outsourcing with the reality of what your systemrequires. Walk through detailed SAP configurationchanges that may be necessary to properly integrate withoutsourced systems. Examine the two-way interface ofpayroll results and discover the secrets behind importingnet results from your outsourcer. Become acquaintedwith the limitations you should note, including how toovercome potential issues with retrocalculation data.

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Case StudyHow Microsoft uses SAP’s Tax Services tosignificantly improve periodic, quarterly,and W-2 processingDiscover how Microsoft successfully implemented thecode and tools contained in SAP’s Tax Services tomanage their entire payroll tax process and file W-2 infor-mation to third-party vendors via IDocs. Hear a firsthandaccount of Microsoft’s payroll tax procedures, from con-figuration and setup to the tax filing and reconciliationprocesses. Prepare for key requirements related to successful tax processing in SAP, including why you mustprocess data sequentially. Get an overview of SAP’s TaxServices outsourcing interface and uncover howMicrosoft uses standard SAP functionality to easily createa one-file interface for all payroll tax filings. Analyze keymetrics from Microsoft’s payroll tax project and glean tipson how payroll tax teams perform periodic, quarterly, andW-2 processing and handle voids, reversals, and termi-nated/inactive employees. Take home a detailed guidethat shows you how to configure Tax Services function-ality in SAP.

A simple, up-to-date, andcomprehensive guide to payrollschema and rule configurationPayroll schemas and rules are among the most complexand least understood elements in SAP payroll configura-tion. Gain a solid understanding of the most complicatedpayroll configuration elements and how schemas andrules operate. Learn how wage types and internal tablessuch as IT, RT, and CRT operate and see them in actionas you step through an example of how a union duesdeduction is calculated. Gain an understanding of how touse payroll operations in a rule and take home a check-list of frequently used payroll functions and operationsalong with a description of how to use each of them.Receive valuable payroll configuration guidelines andprinciples to make your troubleshooting easier, includinghow to use constants, allow for exceptions, and handlecomplicated wage type splits and walk through examplesof how you can manage each. Go beyond standard con-figuration with illustrations of custom payroll functionsand operations as you gather expert advice on when andhow to create them.

How to manage changes to your FIposting configuration Reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions, or newaccounting procedures often force you to change theposting of payroll to FI configuration. Take a detailed lookat the ins and outs of FI posting configuration and learnhow changes to the configuration can impact your busi-ness. Use new symbolic accounts to overcome the lackof date sensitivity in areas of FI posting configuration.Explore how symbolic accounts and the employeegrouping (via feature PPMOD) connect wage types andG/L accounts, and evaluate how to manage this featureso you can maintain old and new employee groupingssimultaneously. Discover the role that date delimitationplays in the configuration and which portions of configu-ration are not date delimited. Gather valuable FI postingconfiguration tips and tricks so that future postingshappen appropriately and retroactive postings do notcreate unexpected reclassification. Develop a configura-tion strategy for your posting processes, including how toreact to new employee groupings and symbolic accountsand how to add new groupings to old symbolic accounts.

Understand shift differential processingin SAP Time Evaluation This session provides a comprehensive guide to shift dif-ferentials in SAP Time Evaluation, from business sce-narios to configuration requirements to evaluation results.Optimize your payroll processing and get expert configu-ration tips, including how to use the previous day indi-cator, how to handle multiple shifts in one day, and howto reuse code for automatic premium processing for dif-ferent scenarios. Learn how to troubleshoot and resolvecommon shift differential issues, including those that areparticularly problematic such as applying multiple premiums to one entry. Get valuable tips for redefiningstandard SAP fields to enable tracking of multiple shift premiums. Explore multiple automatic premium scenarios, from simple to complex, and examine theresults of each. Take home a flowchart explaining howautomatic premium processing works in detail, andbetter understand the differences between manual andautomatic processing.

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Avoid confusion: Optimize pay stubs toclearly communicate the right details toyour employeesA pay stub that clearly communicates an employee’spayroll activity increases employee satisfaction andresults in fewer calls to the Payroll team. Get a detaileddescription of HR forms’ functions (e.g., the pay stub inpayroll) and understand how they work. Step through thecomponents of an HR form with a tutorial that shows youhow to create or modify a form via HR Form Editor (trans-action PE51). Map key payroll fields such as direct wagetypes, evaluation classes, cumulation IDs, and time datato your payroll forms and get practical advice for settingparameters to enable sorting and retro differences.Enhance your form design and take away tips and tricksto include year-to-date amounts for wage types, taxauthorities and tax types, employee claims, retroactivechanges, and group messages. Learn how HR formsintegrate with SAPscript and see examples of how thisintegration improves the appearance and flexibility ofform design. Compare and contrast SAPscript andSmartForms as two options you can use to developforms, and get pros and cons of using each option.

Payroll and tax reporting integrationImprove your knowledge of the SAP Payroll process andexplore the key interactions between Payroll and TaxReporter in this expert-led session. Go behind the scenesof the SAP Payroll process to learn step-by-step what hap-pens to tax data during and after a Payroll run. Follow theprocess as taxes are accumulated in FI, remitted to third-party vendors, and reported by Tax Reporter. Navigatethrough the reconciliation process between Payroll andTax Reporter and explore the different ways to reconciletaxes. Ensure accuracy of your tax reporting by using con-figuration to update tax form groups with your customwage types. Compare and contrast standard tax reconcil-iation reports. Get lessons and tips on what to avoid.Improve the accuracy of your tax reporting by masteringthe concept of “run up to” dates and understand howretroactive changes made after the end of a period canimpact your results dates and how retroactive changesmade after the end of a period can impact your results.

Improve payroll reconciliation speedand accuracy: Learn the “tools of the trade” for Third Party Remittanceand Tax ReporterGain a solid understanding of the SAP payroll reconcilia-tion process and get a step-by-step explanation of how toaccurately reconcile your payroll results to determine fed-eral, local and state tax liabilities. Examine the tools andreports available to you, including reconciliation spread-sheets, the Payroll Reconciliation Report, Third PartyRemittance Report, and Tax Reporter forms 941, 940, andW-3. Get detailed best practices to streamline run timesand processing. Learn how to choose the right selectioncriteria for the standard payroll Reconciliation Report andthe importance of using the right dates to determine therange of your payroll results. Get tips and tricks on howto accurately tie the results to the figures on your TaxReporter Form 941, W-3 and individual state W-2 wagesand taxes. Explore the most common “gotchas” in thepayroll reconciliation process and learn how to ensurethat all off-cycle items are captured in your reconciliation.Find out how to determine the proper frequency — perpay period or quarterly — in which to run each report tostay on top of your results. Take home a flowchart of thepayroll reconciliation process to help educate your pay-roll team members of the importance and integration ofthe steps.

How SAP Payroll cost distribution really works!The distribution of costs calculated by SAP Payroll can becomplex and require knowledge of PersonnelAdministration (PA), Organizational Management (OM),and the integration with Financials (FI). Attend this ses-sion to learn how cost distribution works, from definingthe organization structure to posting the payroll resultsand explore the different ways PA and OM handle costdistribution. Examine the integration between OM and PAwithin HR and pinpoint when to use OM vs. PA infotypesfor cost distribution, how OM data combines with PAorganizational assignments, and important issues to con-sider when choosing one method over the other. See howcost data can be collected in Time Management and fedinto the payroll calculations, and uncover how absencesand attendances, Cross-Application Time Sheet (CATS),and third-party time collection systems affect how yourcosts are distributed. Follow the process of posting costsfrom payroll to FI and learn how wage types are mappedto FI accounts, when and why costs are overridden, andhow FI/CO data is stored in the payroll result.

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Accelerate payday timelines by usingprocess models to streamline payrollprocessingPayroll process models serve as templates for executingpayroll processes and enable you to automate andschedule payroll events. Attend this session to learn howprocess models work and discover how to use breakpoints and wait points to control the steps in your models.Get tips and tricks to configure process models for reg-ular and off-cycle payroll, mass bonus runs andreversal/replacement checks. Improve your trou-bleshooting skills and get expert advice for processingand resolving errors for employees that reject during pay-roll. Delve into technical settings, tables and functionmodules that drive process models and explore how touse the DTAKT feature to implement both decentralizedand centralized processing. Take home a detailed config-uration guide with step-by-step instructions to create orenhance your own process models. Review key OSSnotes that can impact your process models. Leave thissession with security best practices for payroll.

The building blocks of time evaluation— from configuration to troubleshootingGet a comprehensive overview of SAP time evaluationand its components, including tips, techniques, and rec-ommendations to maintain configuration, managemaster data, and build schemas. Improve your payrollanalysis skills as you walk through a thorough step-by-step explanation of the time evaluation process flow fromschemas and rules to functions, operations, internaltables, and time wage types. Go beyond the process flowto examine how time evaluation integrates to both SAPPayroll and legacy payroll processes. Apply this processknowledge and step through real project examples ofcommon business scenarios and requirements such asovertime, double-time, shift differential, and premium cal-culations. Get tips and tricks to configure and managetime evaluation, including how to best group youremployee population for processing and the benefits andlimitations of generating time wage types with tableT510S. Master the tools and techniques that allow you tosuccessfully troubleshoot time evaluation problems,including how to correctly read the time evaluation log,interpret internal tables, and debug RPTIME00. See realproject examples of custom business scenarios andrequirements related to Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)overtime and double-time calculations and learn how tomanage them successfully with custom schemas andrules.

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Case StudyHow Steelcase mastered HIPAA 834reporting compliance Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act(HIPAA) regulations governing the transmission of sub-scriber and dependent enrollment data affect the benefitsadministration practices of the majority of US companies.Attend this informative case study to hear how Steelcaseuses SAP to meet the challenge of the HIPAA enrollmentand disenrollment transaction (834) standards. Learnhow Steelcase is replacing its custom interfaces with asingle interface for all 13 of its health care providers. Getreal-world insight about the frustrations many companiesface in attempting to align their vendor extracts with all oftheir vendors’ different formatting requirements. Get valu-able tips to help you reduce your 834-format develop-ment time and address the burden of receiving differentformat specs from each benefits provider. Take a detailedlook at Steelcase’s implementation approach and seefirsthand how it turned a maintenance and compliancerisk into a time- and resource-saving victory.


Structural Authorizations 101: What you need to know This session provides a comprehensive introduction tostructural security concepts and techniques. Learn thestructural authorization concept from the ground up.Understand how structural security works, when youneed it, and what prerequisites are key to your success.Examine the design of structural profiles and learn theimportance of Organizational Management (OM) relation-ships and evaluation paths. Uncover tips and tricks forimproving the performance of your structural authoriza-tions and discover how standard function modules andBusiness Add-Ins (BAdIs) can reduce your setup andprofile maintenance. Gain insight into the role structuralsecurity plays in self-service environments and how todetermine if your data is at risk. Learn pros and cons foreach method of securing HR and payroll data in SAP anduse this advice to better align your self-service develop-ment and authorization strategies. Walk through a real-lifeSAP HR scenario and see firsthand how to design anduse structural authorizations to fulfill your requirements.

Organizational Management (OM)design for extended functionality Organizational Management (OM) in SAP provides pow-erful functionality that impacts the use and performanceof functionality beyond HR and across the enterprise.This session will instruct you on how to employ key con-cepts to optimize the design, maintenance and use of theorganizational structure. Find out how to configure andassign security roles directly to organizational objects toreduce role maintenance, diminish the number of neces-sary roles and ensure stability of user security duringperiods of turnover and organizational change. Compareand contrast central vs. distributed role maintenance anddetermine which is best for your organization. Get tipsand tricks for designing organizational structures to max-imize performance and efficiency of workflows, includingwhen to use custom relationships and why certain stan-dard relationships such as “chief” are critical to your suc-cess. Come away with examples of OM structures, rela-tionships and evaluation paths built to efficiently enableworkflow. Discover the best ways to configure and main-tain your organizational structures to accurately depictand report on your business, including the use of relation-ship codes you might have overlooked. Explore how theuse of custom evaluation paths and alternate structurescan turbocharge your organizational reporting.

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Case StudyHow Compass Group redesigned itsorganizational management processesto support a Manager Self-ServicerolloutLearn how the world’s sixth-largest employer tackled thechallenges of readying its organizational managementstructures to meet the demands of a new Manager Self-Service (MSS) implementation. Hear firsthand how theCompass Group HRIS team redesigned its organiza-tional structure to support multiple companies, variousmanagerial levels, customized rules, and workflowthrough the use of basic and custom relationships in SAPOrganizational Management. Discover custom programsthat automate position creation in line with companystandards. See how those custom programs, in conjunc-tion with organizational and financial structure mainte-nance, facilitate a custom MSS environment that meetsCompass Group’s unique organizational requirements.Get tips and tricks to create your own custom relation-ships. Gain insight into a handful of ABAP programs thatstreamline your SAP organizational structure and maxi-mize the flexibility of your MSS solution.

Take the mystery out of OrganizationalManagement!Attend this introductory session to tap into the power ofOrganizational Management (OM) and gain a thoroughunderstanding of the critical role this module plays in anSAP HR implementation. Review OM’s unique architec-ture, configuration, and relationship with other core SAPcomponents. Understand how OM interoperates withpersonnel administration, personnel development, usersecurity, workflow, and self-service applications. MasterOM’s object orientation and get proven techniques tocreate objects and custom object types. Learn the keysfor a successful OM implementation and how yourimplementation decisions will impact your current andfuture SAP initiatives. Explore core OM tasks from theground up, including pointers on creating and main-taining objects, relationships, and evaluation paths. Getbest practices for large-scale maintenance and integra-tion with other SAP modules and functionality. Takehome tips for creating and maintaining organizationalobjects and structures. See how OM establishes animportant underlying infrastructure for SAP BW,Workflow, and MSS security.

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Optimize custom relationships andevaluation paths for improved structuralaccess and data securityEvaluation paths enable you to narrow output, limit users’views of objects and master data, and implement otherimportant controls. Master how to create custom relation-ships and evaluation paths and understand the basics ofobject orientation in SAP Organizational Management(OM). Explore the value of A/B relationship indicators,follow the flow of evaluation paths, and identify how R/3uses them to navigate structures. Gain valuable tipsabout how to use custom evaluation paths and relation-ships to support multiple views of an organization struc-ture, including multiple business segments and lines ofbusiness. Improve your OM report processing times andget examples of how to better use evaluation paths todefine and refine your report output. Limit your risk andexposure by incorporating structural authorizations intoyour overall SAP authorization strategy and learn howevaluation paths and relationships allow you to achievetighter controls.

Speed up data entry and improve HR transaction productivity with theObject ManagerThe Object Manager is standard functionality in SAP HRthat allows users to search for and select objects basedon user-specified criteria, such as organizational restric-tions, enterprise structure components or master dataelements. See an overview of the Object Manager andtake away expert advice that will help you use it toimprove transactional productivity. Examine the layout ofthe Object Manager screen components and discoverwhich HR transactions employ Object Manager andwhich object types you can include in searches througheach transaction. Manage user searches and resultsmore efficiently and learn how to customize hit list sortsand column configuration. Collect tips and tricks formanaging Object Manager features and understandhow to activate Object Manager and when you mightwant to hide free search functionality. Take home atraining guide for using Object Manager in a number ofways, including finding persons and OrganizationalManagement (OM) objects, performing free searches,and utilizing search results to update master data andOM object characteristics.

Best practices for configuring andmaintaining organizational structuresand producing org chartsLearn the best way to configure and maintain relation-ships in your organizational structure to produce effectiveorganizational charts. Find out how to use Microsoft Visioto construct those organizational chart relationships anddevelop maintenance strategies to keep them up to date.Discover a simple, straightforward approach that enablesyou to avoid the inflexibility and excessive cost of high-end third-party organizational chart software. Getdetailed instructions on how to leverage Microsoft Visio tocreate customized, real-time organizational charts fromSAP’s Organizational Management structure. Eliminatecontinuous manual updates and explore effective ways tostore and account for relationships. Take home valuableABAP code that helps you to produce the output file. Asa bonus, you’ll also receive custom Visual Basic code tohelp you add special formatting to your Visio charts.

The key to MSS success: Leverage SAP’scompetency and position managementfunctionalityDiscover how you can use the competency and positionmanagement functionality available in SAP HR to alignthe recruitment and talent management objectives ofmanagers, executives, and operations personnelthroughout your organization. Many organizationsstruggle with maintaining organizational structures withjobs (the higher-level description of a type of work, i.e.,“manager”) and positions (a specific example of thejob, i.e., “Kansas City office manager”). Evaluate thevalue and challenges of establishing a stable organiza-tional structure with jobs and positions for everyemployee. Discover how and why position and compe-tency management is the foundation for creating a truetalent management environment necessary to recruit,retain, and develop the skills necessary to assist yourcompany in reaching its long-term goals. Understandthe out-of-the box SAP toolsets available to build yourtalent management program. Find out how SAP’srecruitment, performance development, career develop-ment, training, succession planning, compensationmanagement, and SAP Manager and Employee Self-Service combine to provide the framework to move yourcompany to a world-class talent management solution.

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Best practices for SAP HR and Payrollupgrades Get expert advice to help you plan your SAP HR andPayroll systems upgrade. Delve into crucial questionsthat take you beyond just which release is right for you.From developing the right project team and identifyingthe key upgrade project risks to creating test plans andcutover plans, you have an abundance of critical deci-sions to make. Reduce your uncertainty with a solidunderstanding of the differences between mySAP ERP2004 and mySAP ERP 2005 from the Human CapitalManagement point of view. Determine the effort and riskinvolved when you migrate to a new system. Compareand contrast functionality between existing and soon-to-be released versions and discover what’s new in mySAPERP 2005 that may be worth the wait. Explore whyupgrade timing is vital for Payroll customers and whyproper upgrade testing can make or break your project.Identify variations in change management strategiesbetween releases and see why larger upgrade releasejumps require more than just a good change manage-ment approach. Discover how upgrade plans differ fromimplementation plans and why you should emphasizedata validation and exception testing in your upgrade.Take home practical, specific examples of successfulupgrade strategies, and learn how to avoid mistakes byexamining cases of failed upgrades.

mySAP ERP 2004 upgrade: What’s critical for HR? Get a head start on identifying the HR and Payroll func-tional components that require the most attention duringan upgrade to mySAP ERP 2004. Discover the differencesin functionality among R/3 4.6C, R/3 Enterprise, andmySAP ERP 2004 and utilize this knowledge to build yourown upgrade roadmap. Pinpoint how to best plan for thesize and cost of your upgrade. Walk away with hints aboutwhere to find appropriate upgrade documentation at SAPService Marketplace. Compare standalone InternetTransaction Server (ITS) with Integrated ITS and discoverthe upgrade’s impact on MSS and ESS. Step through thekey decisions and tasks you need to address to transitionyour self-service applications to the new Integrated ITSserver. Examine transaction code UCCHECK, anduncover how to use it to accurately assess the necessaryeffort to achieve Unicode compliance in your HR userexits and custom programs. BONUS: Take home a list oftools that help you gauge your system’s readiness for theupgrade to mySAP ERP 2004.

Key design and deploymentconsiderations for global SAP HR projectsGain new insights into the design, configuration, andstrategy alignment challenges that are unique to globalSAP HR environments. Prepare for your global project anddiscover why a thorough understanding of your organiza-tion’s HR service delivery model is critical to your success.Leverage your knowledge of the service delivery model toidentify what requirements must be addressed globallyand what you can localize. Differentiate the functionalityincluded in your rollout by determining the HR serviceofferings essential to each part of the global organizationand weigh this information against your rollout strategy toensure widespread acceptance. Tap into lessons learnedfrom a number of real-world global projects. Hear howcompanies address data privacy concerns, develop lan-guage strategies, and build comprehensive globalinstance strategies. Maximize company-wide approval ofyour system configuration as you build a global baselinethat includes organizational defaults, enterprise struc-tures, qualifications, competencies, and compensationstructures and processes. Assemble the most effectiveglobal rollout strategy, and get tips to determine whetherto base your rollout on geography or business strategyalignment and why your HR service delivery model playsa key role in this decision.

Secrets to a smooth and successfulglobal Travel ManagementimplementationBenefit from detailed lessons learned from a global TravelManagement implementation (SAP Enterprise 4.7 andSAP NetWeaver Portal). Walk away with a solid under-standing of the factors that can complicate or even deraila global project. Get a preview of the obstacles you facewhen you implement SAP Travel Management globally,from hardware and technology differences betweenregions to cultural aspects such as policy, taxation, andcurrency differences. Examine a real-life global rolloutplan, from project approach and timeline to implementa-tion and post-production support. Take away a frame-work for your own project planning. Hear how regionaldata privacy acts impact global rollouts and get advice tohelp you plan for those challenges. Go beyond the cul-tural differences to explore how the global nature of aTravel Management project can affect workflow, userinterface (UI) design, imaging integration, and systemlandscapes. Learn how you can speed user adoptionand bypass UI challenges through this technology.

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Case StudyHow Fairfax Water automated manualprocesses with a combination of self-services and SAP HRHear firsthand how Fairfax Water, a public, non-profitwater utility that provides service to more than 1.3 millionpeople in northern Virginia, planned, implemented, tested,and rolled out SAP HR 4.6C with SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0in a hosted environment, shedding their manual, paper-based process nearly overnight. See how Fairfax Watergot a non-technical workforce up and running and activelyusing ESS and MSS for manager approvals, tasks, andworkflow. Collect valuable tips to ensure executive supportfor your project, and uncover details about the methodsthe Fairfax Water project team adopted to successfullynavigate its risk-averse user and management communitythrough the various SAP implementation stages. Reviewthe stringent testing methodology Fairfax Water utilizedand find out how they not only thoroughly validated dataand results, but also involved all users in testing to speedtheir acceptance of change.

Prevent unauthorized and backdooraccess to your HR dataYou have implemented SAP HR, researched accessrequirements, developed roles, and successfully securedyour HR master data, but do you truly know how to deter-mine if you are ready for an audit? Take a new look at thekind of backdoor security access that can leave your datavulnerable. Examine the best ways to curtail authorizationloopholes. See how the table browser transaction SE16can still allow table updates and get detailed advice onhow you can prevent this access in R/3. Develop astrategy for implementing authorization checks in customABAP programs and learn what to do if you don’t use theHR PNP logical database in your programs. Take homemodels for custom tools to scan ABAP for valid authoritychecks and ensure that you correctly implement your R/3security guidelines today and in the future. Get a handleon when and how to use the authorization bypass for HRinfotype checks and the potential data exposures associ-ated with this approach. Discover the potential for unin-tended data access in your Batch Data Communication(BDC) processes and learn how to prevent unauthorizedusers from displaying the content of BDC sessions.Protect data contained in your third-party interfaces suchas bank transfers and data upload utilities and learn toproperly restrict the ability to read or write files to andfrom the interface servers.

Case StudyHow Intervoice simplified the conversionfrom PeopleSoft to mySAP ERP 2004Attend this case study to learn how Intervoice, Inc., aleader in speech technology and voice automation sys-tems, converted its PeopleSoft 8.0 HR data and ADP pay-roll data into mySAP ERP 2004. Smash the PeopleSoft-to-SAP conversion myths and get a real-world look at howIntervoice successfully switched over not only current HRand payroll data, but also historical data. Benefit fromIntervoice’s experience and discover how thorough dataconversions can reduce testing time. Take home examplesof conversion-mapping documents and see what workedand what you should avoid. Compare and contrast SAP’sand PeopleSoft’s HR data structures and receive tips onbridging the gap between SAP’s true effective-dating andPeopleSoft’s begin-date-only data formats. Hear, firsthand,how Intervoice converted its organizational structure andalso successfully moved organizational history fromPeopleSoft into SAP Organizational Management. Explorethe complex data validation process Intervoice used for itslarge-scale data conversion and get advice about how torevise data at the source before you transfer it to the targetSAP system.

How mid-market companies ensure thesuccess of their SAP R/3 implementationsMany mid-sized companies do not require enough ABAPdevelopment to justify a full-time ABAP consultant,although SAP implementations require such skills.Typically, mid-sized companies do not have enoughresources to build distinct process teams for processeslike testing. Explore essential implementation tactics thatwill turn your SAP market size into an advantage. Find outhow to build a project team that saves you valuable timeduring testing, go-live, and maintenance without jeopard-izing the team members’ other responsibilities. Walkaway with best practices to maximize your consultantinvestment. Optimize your SAP data centralization toestablish cross-training strategies that sharpen yourteam’s flexibility. Use SAP’s automation features toreduce users’ workload and improve the accuracy of cor-porate data, such as default values and dynamic actions.Garner insights about which functions to include in yourinitial implementation and which options to phase ingradually. See how the R/3 rollout impacts your IT infra-structure. This session will guide you on the right path toa successful R/3 implementation armed with tailoredblueprints for mid-size companies.

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Make sure your mySAP ERP upgradeknowledge, tools, and approach arecurrentThe evolution of web and enterprise services requirescustomers to reconsider their traditional upgrademethodologies, tools, and criteria. This session providesupdates and overviews to ensure you approach yourupgrade with current skills and an up-to-date under-standing of the functionality in new releases. Get expertadvice about selecting and using the right tools to meetthe new challenges of a mySAP ERP upgrade head on.Review the new principles involved in the technicalupgrade process. Evaluate the best methods and tools toplan, execute, and manage your upgrade. Get lessonson how to use tools such as Reverse Business Engineer(RBE), Extended Computer-Assisted Test Tool (eCATT),and SAP Tutor. Discover how these solutions can helpyou pinpoint helpful programs and reports, test and doc-ument business processes, and provide distancelearning options. Align your upgrade with your hardwareand infrastructure needs and exploit SAP System Switchprocesses to minimize downtime during your upgradecutover. Learn how the Application Specific Upgrade(ASU) toolbox can help you avoid having to re-createcustom settings and variants in programs.

Pinpoint the best global payroll modelfor your organizationWhether your organization manages payroll internally,outsources it, or operates a hybrid of these options,moving HR data to a multi-language, global platform pro-foundly impacts the local payroll system. Uncover thesecrets that afford your global rollout maximum flexibilityand properly represents all stakeholders: global,regional, and local. Get a handle on navigating the SAPInterface toolbox to streamline integration and reducecosts between global HR and local payroll systems whenyou choose multiple payroll solutions — SAP or non-SAP.Look at how your counterparts measure the ratio ofemployees per country and countries per company asbuilding blocks for a global initiative. Evaluate the bestglobal pay model for your organization against a set ofcriteria that includes an assessment of your businessrequirements and corporate culture. Examine the prosand cons of using the regional pay model to avoid non-standardized processes and duplicated customerservice functions. Consider when to use the central paymodel if you need to focus on a central pay system withseparate country level tax, currency, and deductionlibraries. Conceptually understand the out-of-the-boxstandard-delivered file formats that integrate global HRdata with multiple payroll systems.

Extend your SAP HR solution to Latin AmericaThis session offers updates and insights into the legal,cultural, and language differences you need to accountfor when conducting business in Latin America. Reviewrecent Latin American implementations of SAP HR. Getexpert advice on ways to optimize your existing US solu-tion, including details on which functionality to reuse andhow the rollout impacts your system landscape andinstance strategy. Consider recommendations on whereto locate your project headquarters and why the physicalmake-up of your team could make or break your project.Walk through a real-life scenario of a US-based companythat wants to roll out SAP HR into its Mexican operationsand see the effort involved, requirements that differbetween the two countries, and what cultural differencesto address. Explore why phased approaches to globalproject implementations often make sense and examinehow the different Latin American country versions deliv-ered with SAP — Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela,and Colombia — should influence your strategy.

Ensure Sarbanes-Oxley complianceand plug security gaps in your HR and payroll systemsWhile Sarbanes-Oxley Act regulations have become partof the standard auditing procedures in most organiza-tions in recent years, many organizations have beenreluctant to include HR system users and user access intheir Sarbanes-Oxley compliance monitoring. Find outwhy Sarbanes-Oxley auditing for HR and Payroll usersshould be a mandatory procedure in your SAP environ-ment, and know your company’s exposure should youfail to monitor HR users properly. Go beyond theory andgain insight into all auditable elements in the SAP Basisand HR systems. Discuss the HR-related elements ofSarbanes-Oxley compliance, such as the pre- and post-payroll analysis of master data, payroll results, and iden-tification of duplicate master data. Map these elements tospecific functionalities in SAP HR. Expand your auditoptions with an overview of useful tools for Sarbanes-Oxley-compliant audits in R/3, and find out which are rec-ommended as being most effective. Gain an overview onthe Sarbanes-Oxley project approach specifically formySAP ERP HCM. Learn how to establish an efficientcontrol and documentation process. Configure auditrules in your SAP system for documentation of the com-plete audit trail. See how to check, drill down, correct,and then re-check audits via a user-friendly workbench.See how you can integrate this workbench within the SAPManagement of Internal Controls (MIC).

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Case StudySave time and conserve resourceswhen distributing information to legacysystems with custom IDocs Learn how Publix Super Markets, the largest employee-owned supermarket chain in the US, streamlined transmis-sion and distribution of SAP HR data to external legacy sys-tems with IDocs. Discover how Publix improved data trans-mission effectiveness and the speed of its new hireprocesses by replacing XML templates of standard deliv-ered HR IDocs with more efficient custom-built XML tem-plates. Compare and contrast standard IDoc use with theeffort required to develop custom IDocs and determinewhether custom IDocs can save you valuable resource andprocessing time. Walk away with lessons learned by thePublix technical team, from the development of IDocs to thetechnical underpinnings of their Enterprise ApplicationIntegration (EAI) processes. Explore options for makingIDoc data more readily available and usable by multipleapplications and processes, and hear how Publix utilizedMicrosoft’s BizTalk as its Enterprise Application Integration(EAI) solution to enable IDoc distribution. Identify what youshould consider before choosing an EAI solution.

Know your options and pick the rightdata input technologies for your SAPapplications and usersGo beyond standard SAP HR data interface methodsand understand why some interfaces lend themselves toparticular HR applications better than others. Know all ofyour options, along with the pros and cons of each, sothat you can make an informed decision about whichinterface to use. Learn how to integrate employee-relateddata that comes into SAP HR from web, imaging, email,wireless, and voice front ends. Integrate data from var-ious sources into SAP HR without creating separate datainterfaces for each. Manage data collection exceptionsand edits across multiple HR applications within thesame graphical user interface (GUI), regardless of theinput medium. Take home configuration examples forrecruitment, performance management, benefits enroll-ment, and time management, plus historical metricsabout the level of automation that you can achieve foreach of the 5 data collection interfaces. Find out what towatch out for at each input point that can impact integra-tion, like collection point volume and frequency of use.Walk through a live demo of a benefits enrollment usingdata collected via each of the 5 technologies and com-pare and contrast the results.

Unify standard and structuralauthorization concepts with thecontext-sensitive security solutionA company’s R/3 security strategy may require multiplefunctional roles for a single user. To accommodate theseusers, a company typically assigns more than one standardand structural role to those individuals through multiple userIDs. Hear how the context-based security solution intro-duced in R/3 Enterprise and present in mySAP ERP releasesaddresses this problem by enabling you to link standardroles with structural profiles. Explore these new securitycapabilities and learn how to leverage this functionality inyour current security environment. Delve into the technicalauthorization switches and settings that enable context-based security and understand how the possible switchvalues and the different context switches work in combina-tion. Examine how to control access to records foremployees without current organizational assignments orwho hold integration default positions. Walk through step-by-step examples of how to configure and test your switchesand settings. Hear a firsthand account of how to consolidatemultiple user IDs and transition from your current securitysetup to a context-based plan. Hear how to identify theareas that require the most effort. Get answers to difficultquestions such as what happens to your current structuralauthorization configuration when you implement context-based authorizations.

The best tools and practices to replicateand archive SAP HR data Learn how to eliminate the potential risks of uncheckeddatabase growth such as slow application performance,long back-up and recovery cycles, and complex replica-tions. Hear about a holistic approach to data managementthat includes an evaluation of data archiving and data repli-cation in both production and non-production environ-ments. Take your understanding of data archiving andreplication to the next level and evaluate the best tools andpractices to create, replicate, secure, archive and performfinal disposition of HR and Payroll data in your R/3 or ECCsystems. Get answers to common data archiving ques-tions such as, “What happens to data after it leaves myproduction system?” and “Will I be able to report onarchived data?” Get valuable tips to develop a data man-agement strategy that makes it easy to replicate data innon-production systems. For example, examine the prosand cons of using Production Data Simulation (PDS) formoving portions of your data to a non-production client fortraining and testing purposes. Step through fiveapproaches for achieving it, and learn how to protect sen-sitive data as it leaves your production system.


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What every implementation andupgrade team needs to know about testingThis session arms HR implementation and upgrade teamswith important updates and guidance for testing. Discoverwhat testing can provide during an implementation orupgrade and how and why testing should not stop at go-live. Get best practices to manage project risk with anenhanced testing strategy. Get tips for treating testing sce-narios as evolutionary processes that you review andupdate as your functionality and processes change. Walkthrough the different types of testing and find out wheneach is suitable and why automated test scripts are notalways appropriate. Get tips and tricks to consistently ana-lyze your test data and ensure that it meets all possible out-comes, regardless of whether you use real data or fictitiousdata built for testing. Complete your testing methodologywith expert advice on using authorizations for testers andon involving the right people at the right time to test yourdata. Take home examples of test plans that worked andbenefit from the lessons learned on those projects.

Expert guidance to determine if, when,and how to archive your SAP HR data Don’t wait until database size becomes an issue and yourSAP HR applications exhibit sluggish performance to for-mulate a sound data archiving strategy. Get expert adviceabout how archiving works in SAP HR and discover thetransactions and effort involved. Learn which processesand applications, such as payroll and time administra-tion, increase database size the most and utilize thisknowledge to decide what and when to archive. Weighthe pros and cons of archiving and get advice about howto build a successful, well-balanced archiving strategy.Evaluate your own database size and use this analysis tochoose archiving objects that matter most. Take home alist of SAP HR archiving objects and gain insight into thecontent and importance of each object. Leverage thesevaluable documents to determine which objects youshould archive to achieve the greatest benefit. Developarchiving administration procedures, including how toschedule your archiving processes, and demystifyarchiving for your data owners as you uncover how andwhen to optimally access archived data.

Turbocharge HCM implementations withmySAP ERP Best Practices Take an in-depth look at SAP Best Practices’ preconfiguredsolutions that implementation teams can leverage to reducetime, resources and cost in an SAP project. See how newtools in ECC 5.0 provide preconfigured functionality to pre-cisely meet your company’s requirements. Discover howBest Practices for mySAP ERP HCM can speed your projecttimeline with its delivered baseline configuration and docu-mentation for core business processes. Receive expertadvice on how to use Best Practices configurations for yourimplementation, including when to copy Best Practicesentries and when to modify the delivered content to bettermeet your needs. Examine prototypes of HCM functionalitythat require a short amount of time and effort. Exploit BestPractices to see how the desired functionality might work foryou by modeling it in your test environment. Fast-forwardyour data conversions by taking advantage of Excel tem-plates contained in the HCM Best Practices Data TransferTool. Uncover hidden secrets and challenges for imple-menting Best Practices. Find out how you can use the stan-dard documentation as an efficient how-to guide for yourconfiguration processes even if you choose not to install BestPractices.

Best practices for continuous monitoringof your SAP HR and Payroll processesRecent regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and high-profile cases of corporate data misuse underscore theimportance of HR and financial data and the need toimprove internal controls. Get best practices and provenmethodologies to design business rules that provide evi-dence of good controls to protect you from exposure.Discover new ways to reduce corporate risk as yousharpen how you monitor HR, time, and payroll dataprocesses, including key integration points between SAPHR and Financials. Receive detailed examples of SAPPayroll transactions and components you should consis-tently watch such as time entry routines, payroll spoolfiles, results clusters, wage type maintenance, payrolland authorizations, and posting run results. Come awaywith proven methods and tips to prepare your HR andpayroll system processes for detailed monitoring.

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� Improve the quality of your HR and payroll reports

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� Get advanced tips and techniques to optimize payrolland time management functions

� Heighten the effectiveness of recruitment, training,appraisal, compensation, and planning activities

� Bolster your ability to manage a varied and globallydispersed workforce

� Hear how your counterparts implement, customize, andleverage ESS and MSS

� Optimally configure Organizational Management (OM)objects, evaluation paths, Infotypes, and relationships

� Exploit web and portal technology for benefits, payroll,and compensation

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