Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Structures in SAP HR

STRUCTURES IN HR

Enterprise Structure: The Client, Company code, Personnel area, Personnel Sub area, Employee Group, Employee Subgroup together forms the enterprise structure in HR.

Organization Structure: It forms the hierarchy in which the various organizational units of an enterprise are arranged according to tasks and functions.

Personnel Structure: It describes the employee’s position within the company. A distinction is made between the administrative perspective and the organizational perspective.
ENTERPRISE STRUCTURE


Client

It is a self contained unit in an R/3 system with separate master records and its own set of tables. Clients are from 000 – 999 but 000 – 099 is reserved and from 100 – 999 can be created. Client 000 contains SAP original system and this cannot be changed.

Client is an independent legal and organizational unit of the system Ex: Group
A three- character alphanumeric code uniquely identifies the different clients within a system. Client 000 contains the original SAP system, and cannot be changed.

The system contains both client-independent and client – specific elements:
Client-Independent: Elements that SAP describes as client-independent are used in all clients.
Some elements that are client-independent are: Data structures such as field definitions, table structures and file structures, client independent tables, transactions, programs, standard evaluations, authorization objects, help documentation and user-defined programs.

Client Specific: Client-Specific elements are only used in certain special clients. The following are defined as client specific:
Client Specific Tables: You must copy these from the original client, HR master record, user master records and authorization profiles.

Company Code

The company code is an independent company with its own accounting unit, a company that draws up its own balance sheet. The company code represents the highest level of the enterprise structure within a client.



Personnel Area

Personnel area is a specific entity for personnel administration. It represents a subdivision of the company code. The personnel area has the following functions:

-          The personnel are is a selection criteria for evaluation
-          The personnel area is an entity for authorization checks
-          You must uniquely assign personnel areas to company codes.
-          You can use the personnel area to generate default values for data entry
Ex: Payroll Area

Personnel Sub-area

Personnel subareas are subdivisions of personnel areas. The organization of the most important subareas in personnel administration, namely the payscale and wage type structure and work schedule planning are controlled at this level.

PERSONNEL STRUCTURE

The personnel structure displays the position of individual people in the enterprise as a whole.

Employee Group: Employee group is used to classify employees in general terms. It defines the position of the employee within the company’s workforce.
Functions of employee groups include:
-          use to generate default values for data entry
-          use it as a selection criteria for reporting
-          use it as an entity for authorization checks

Example of Employee Groups
-          External
-          Active
-          Retiree

Employee Subgroup: Employee subgroups are divided into employee subgroups. All control features for the personnel structure are defined at the employee subgroup level.
Ex: The following employee subgroups make up the active employee group
Active Employee Group:

-          Hourly wage earners
-          Monthly Wage earners
-          Payscale Employees
-          Non-payscale Employees

Indicators defined by employee subgroups

-          Assign employee characteristics for statistical evaluation
-          Grouping for collective agreement provision
-          Grouping for permitted primary wage types
-          Grouping for personnel calculation rules
-          Grouping for work schedules.


ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE

Organization Unit: Org units describe the different departments in the enterprise.
Ex:
-          by department
-          by Region
-          by business process
The organization units could be departments, teams, groups and so on.

Job: A job is a general classification for a set of tasks in an enterprise. Jobs as a ‘description of activity’ Ex: sales person, consultant, manager

Position: Positions describe the concrete areas in an enterprise that need to be covered by available personnel. Positions represent a specific job entity and are occupied by people.

No comments:

Post a Comment

About Me

ABAP HR Consultants with 5 years of vast experience