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What you need to know before you begin an SAP E-Recruiting implementation
Case study: How BMW MC introduced and integrated SAP E-Recruiting 6.0 into its SAP ERP HCM landscape
A beginner's guide to the features, functionality, and integration of SAP Learning Solution
An introduction to the SAP Learning Solution's Authoring Environment
Leveraging the SAP Learning Solution to manage job required training
Case study: How Haworth integrates cascading goals into its SAP performance management process
Best practices for making competencies the foundation of your Talent Management processes
Leveraging SAP Enterprise Compensation Management's latest enhancements for compensation budgeting
What you need to know before you begin an SAP E-Recruiting implementation
This session offers practical advice to guide newcomers to E-Recruiting through the maze of landscape, process, and implementation decisions that need to be addressed before embarking on an SAP E-Recruiting 6.0 project. Watch this session to:
- Learn how to document your organization's recruiting processes to perform gap analysis, design important workflow, and prepare an E-Recruiting prototype.
- Get an overview of the primary components that make up a complete SAP E-Recruiting landscape, including SAP NetWeaver® Portal, firewall software, TREX, BW, and SAP NetWeaver PI to understand their purpose and how they interact.
- Improve your ability to communicate with project developers with an introduction to the technical foundations of SAP E-Recruiting, including portal integration, Business Server Pages (BSPs), and Web Dynpro development capabilities.
- Get tips for leveraging SAP Solution Manager to document and monitor each component of your SAP E-Recruiting landscape.
- Learn how SAP E-Recruiting structures impact hoc query design and see which standard BW reports are available to report on key recruiting statistics.
A guide to identifying and deploying the right SAP E-Recruiting tools to boost hiring manager use and adoption
Explore the different options available for deploying SAP E-Recruiting to managers and develop a strategy to determine which solution, or combination of solutions, will best meet your managers' needs. Watch this session to:
- Take a demo-based tour of three different ways to engage managers in SAP E-Recruiting — Business Server Pages (BSPs), SAP Manager Self-Service (SAP MSS), and Duet™ — and examine the pros and cons of each.
- Understand how the manager's role, level of involvement in the recruiting process, and use of technology impact the SAP E-Recruiting decision.
- Learn how to identify the top analytical reports that hiring managers demand and get guidelines for creating and delivering those reports.
- See how to quickly create an SAP E-Recruiting dashboard to drive manager adoption and reduce the time recruiters spend responding to queries.
Case study: How BMW MC introduced and integrated SAP E-Recruiting 6.0 into its SAP ERP HCM landscape
Learn how BMW MC developed its business case for implementing SAP E-Recruiting 6.0 and examine the implementation, integration, and process decisions that were critical to its success. Watch this session to:
- Get tips for gathering and documenting SAP E-Recruiting project requirements, identifying and addressing functionality gaps, and using workshops, prototypes, and project gateways to gain buy-in for new or updated processes.
- Step through BMW MC's SAP ERP HCM landscape and see how its SAP E-Recruiting processes integrate with the rest of its HR applications.
- Learn how BMW MC leverages SAP NetWeaver XI to integrate SAP E-Recruiting data with external job boards.
- Get tips for designing security standards for your public-facing recruiting site and developing a data migration strategy to take active requisitions from a legacy system to SAP E-Recruiting.
- Understand how BMW MC is rolling out SAP BW reporting to its HR staff and recruiters to improve the accessibility and usability of recruiting data.
Case study: How Day & Zimmermann streamlined recruitment processes and lowered costs with SAP E-Recruiting
See how Day & Zimmermann leverages SAP E-Recruiting to enhance talent acquisition, improve line manager participation, and reduce recruiting costs. Watch this session to:
- See a demo of Day & Zimmermann's resume parsing process that has streamlined and reduced applicant completion time by 75% and greatly reduced candidate drop-off.
- Explore how providing managers with direct insight into the recruiting process encourages greater participation in decision making while improving the relationship with HR.
- Maximize the effectiveness of your online job postings with tips to tailor job descriptions and titles to deliver more favorable positioning of the jobs in candidate search results.
- Discover how Day & Zimmermann has developed a job board aggregation process that allows recruiters to maintain multiple job boards without leaving SAP E-Recruiting.
- Watch a demo of the end-to-end recruiting process for an unregistered candidate, from job board posting to completed SAP E-Recruiting application.
A beginner's guide to the features, functionality, and integration of SAP Learning Solution
This session offers a comprehensive introduction to the features and operation of the SAP Learning Solution. Watch this session to:
- Gain a thorough understanding of how SAP Learning Solution integrates SAP ERP HCM data, like qualifications, with your organization's course content to provide personalized e-learning or classroom training based on the learner's role and profile.
- Learn the technical, architecture, and skill set requirements required to implement and support SAP Learning Solution.
- See demonstrations of SAP Learning Solution and explore the options available for authoring, managing, and delivering Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) compliant content.
- Take an in-depth look at the SAP Learning Portal from an employee's point of view to see how employees can manage their own professional development.
- Gauge your organization's readiness for an SAP Learning Solution implementation and uncover key questions to answer that will help define how you currently manage training, and document which inefficiencies you plan to address with SAP Learning Solution.
An introduction to the SAP Learning Solution's Authoring Environment
Get an introduction to the SAP Learning Solution's Authoring Environment to see where it fits into the overall SAP Learning Solution landscape and how it's used to manage content. Watch this session to:
- Explore how the Authoring Environment's two components — the Authoring Tool and Repository Explorer — are used to create and structure Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) compliant content.
- Learn how the Authoring Tool can be used to structure content created with external applications such as DreamWeaver and PowerPoint and to convert SCORM compliant content from third party content providers.
- Understand how to exploit standard Testing Tool functionality to create SCORM compliant tests.
- Get best practices for using the Repository Explorer to structure and manage your content centrally.
- Gain an understanding of micro- and macro-strategies for directed learning and examine how the Authoring Environment leverages them to provide content that supports a learner's personal learning preferences.
- Bonus! Get sample content and a test that you can use to explore the functions of the Authoring Environment in your own system — available in your appendix files.
Leveraging the SAP Learning Solution to manage job required training
This session provides instruction on how to use SAP Learning Solution to track employee compliance with regulatory or mandated training and present it for auditing purposes. Watch this session to:
- Explore common issues that companies face when implementing SAP Learning Solution for regulated training, such as versioning tracking, managing requirements-based training, and tracking on-the-job training.
- Get tips to effectively configure and use qualifications to track required training at the job, position, task, and organizational levels.
- See examples of the types of reports you can build to track training compliance and course content versions and learn how companies are using SAP Learning Solution to provide training information to regulatory agencies such as the FDA and OSHA.
- See how workflow can be used to notify employees and supervisors of impending training lapses or existing gaps.
- Examine the tools and methods available to track training compliance, including how to use E-Signature to verify training completion and how to use change documents to drive audit reporting.
Case study: How Freescale Semiconductor implemented SAP's Learning Management System on a shoe-string budget
See how Freescale Semiconductor successfully implemented SAP Learning Solution in SAP ERP for 23,000 employees across 11 countries. Watch this session to:
- Get advice for building a world class team for your SAP Learning Solution implementation, including which skill sets are critical to have, how to develop and maintain the necessary relationships between HR and IT, and how to best use consultants to jumpstart your project.
- Leverage Freescale's experiences to learn what you need to know before you begin an SAP Learning Solution implementation, including how to define user notifications, design the portal user interface layout, and plan for and manage third-party vendor interfaces.
- Learn which business process reengineering must occur prior to configuration and why it's critical to know your business rules for handling course enrollments and workflow rules before you start.
- Explore how Freescale prepared users for SAP Learning Solution functionality by creating high quality, low cost custom e-learning courses.
- Bonus! Get sample end-user documentation, pre-recorded screen cam training modules, and copies of custom notification letters used by Freescale in its implementation and rollout — available in your appendix files.
Case study: How Haworth integrates cascading goals into its SAP performance management process
Many organizations struggle to communicate and align corporate goals and objectives with individual and departmental performance management processes. Watch this session to:
- Learn how Haworth supports corporate objectives by integrating cascading goals into its performance management processes in SAP ERP 6.0.
- Review the different approaches and prototypes Haworth considered for rolling out cascading goals and understand the pros and cons of each method it evaluated.
- Learn how a SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SAP SEM) Balanced Scorecard can be developed to keep management informed of the execution and results of cascading goals.
- Explore how to use a custom structure in Organizational Management to reflect and integrate cascading goals across all your performance management processes.
- Step through Haworth's end-to-end performance management process to see how reviews containing cascading goals are executed and how they impact areas of talent management.
- Examine the results of the prototypes and gain an understanding of the future roadmap for Haworth's performance management processes.
Best practices for making competencies the foundation of your Talent Management processes
Get detailed instruction for developing and implementing a competency framework in your Talent Management processes to monitor employee skills and qualifications, identify skills gaps, and assist with professional development and career planning. Watch this session to:
- Gain an understanding of how a competency framework integrates with succession, performance, development, learning, and recruiting processes in SAP to help you attract and retain the right skill sets in your organization.
- Explore the key components of a competency framework to learn what qualifications are and how they're used to track specific attributes and match an employee's skills with job requirements.
- Come away with a proven five-step methodology for building and integrating a qualifications catalog in your existing SAP environment.
- Get tips to incorporate job requirements into performance management and succession management.
- See examples of dashboards that leverage competency data to track potential across an organization and provide overviews of the strengths and weaknesses of current skills for succession planning purposes.
Understanding, configuring, and deploying SAP Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM): A practical guide for SAP teams
This session offers an introduction to SAP Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM) and a comprehensive review of its key functionality for compensation administration, long-term incentives, budgeting, job pricing, and salary benchmarking. Watch this session to:
- Take a detailed look at where ECM fits in the SAP Talent Management suite and how it integrates with other SAP modules, including Personnel Administration (PA), Organizational Management (OM), and Talent Management.
- Learn how to utilize standard ECM functionality to create and allocate compensation budgets and to maintain market-relevant salary policies and structures.
- Hear about ECM's latest enhancements for defining plan eligibility, customizing guideline groupings, importing external budget figures, managing job pricing, and leveraging BAdIs to meet customer-specific requirements.
- Gain an understanding of how the compensation users can leverage the reporting launch pad in SAP Manager Self-Service (SAP MSS) to access critical reports and data.
- Get a list of standard compensation administration reports that can be run through the portal.
Best practices for managing the complexities of a global SAP Enterprise Compensation Management implementation
Get proven advice to help you prepare for the unique cultural, policy, and configuration requirements that accompany a global rollout of SAP Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM). Watch this session to:
- Receive best practices and instruction for tailoring your application to meet different geographic needs that arise in global compensation design.
- Learn the questions you need to ask to handle the differences in compensation practices, bonus programs, and processing of expatriate compensation.
- See real-life examples of global ECM processes to help you gauge the impact global decisions will have on your ECM configuration.
- Learn what it takes to configure your ECM application to handle global challenges, such as multiple plans per country, multiple currencies and exchange rates, different column requirements, and differences in organizational structures and reporting relationships.
- Step through a demo of a global ECM application to see the impact each unique piece of configuration has on the way you execute your compensation processes and how you can set up your ECM-related iViews to handle global constraints.
Leveraging SAP Enterprise Compensation Management's latest enhancements for compensation budgeting
This session provides a detailed review of the latest SAP Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM) transactions and Web-based interface for creating and maintaining monetary and non-monetary (i.e. stock incentives) compensation budgets. Â Watch this session to:
- Take a demo tour of the standard ECM functionality to see how the latest features impact each step of the budgeting process, from budget preparation and creation through maintenance and budget closure.
- Know your options for budget creation and maintenance, including the use of Personnel Cost Planning (PCP) for budget creation and the new Web-based transactions for maintenance, and get tips for developing custom alternatives to the standard functionality.
- Learn how to run the new Audit Report for Budgets to generate a comprehensive view of your budget spend and allocation from both an individual and roll-up perspective.
- Explore some of the pain points commonly associated with budgeting in ECM projects.
- Get tips for addressing such concepts as budget unit record locking, and gather tips for creating a "bottom-up" budget that dynamically allocates money or percentages as organizational changes occur during the compensation planning cycle.
How to successfully integrate Management by Objectives (MBO) with SAP Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM)
This session provides valuable tips to manage the integration and flow of data between Management by Objectives (MBO) and SAP Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM) in SAP ERP 6.0. Watch this session to:
- Examine different methods of assessing performance, including performance appraisals, potential assessments, 360-degree appraisals, and objective setting agreements, and get tips for designing ECM processes to meet each.
- Understand how to identify the impact that employee lifecycle events, such as promotion, transfer, or expatriation, have on both appraisal systems and compensation design and budgeting.
- Learn how to build a matrix to track the relationship between each type of appraisal and the ratings scales in order to handle employees who change between appraisal types in mid-year.
- Explore the relationship between MBO and ECM and get expert instruction to integrate and automate appraisal data, settings, and templates with back-end ECM configuration.
- Find out which standard reports are available to track the distribution of employees across different ratings and get tips to modify the way data guidelines and eligibility groupings are displayed in SAP Manager Self-Service (SAP MSS).