Hr 2010 Brochure

95+ SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS INSIDE

For teams that use, evaluate, deploy, and support SAP® functionality for HR Strategies, best practices, SAP updates, and skills development for:

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Talent management

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Payroll, tax, and time management

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Employee and manager self-services

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Performance and compensation management

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HR reporting and compliance

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Recruiting and hiring

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Organizational management

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Benefits enrollment and administration

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Employee training, leadership development, and succession planning

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Security and authorizations

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SAP implementations and upgrades

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Shared services

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System globalization

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In turbulent economic times, the success of companies relies on the ability of its management and employees to weather the storms. Whether your company is stabilizing to survive, optimizing to be better positioned, or already preparing for continued growth, the responsibilities and capabilities of the HR department are mission-critical to defining the future of organizations, and go well beyond traditional staffing and employee relations functions. In today’s economy, demographic changes, globalization, aging workforces, and many other influences outside of traditional HR concerns have made it more important than ever to have a comprehensive HR strategy that enables your organization to make the right decisions and be a better company tomorrow. As part of our ongoing commitment to providing continuous innovation to customers, we will continue enhancing the SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) solution with new functionality, integrated processes, and simpler user interfaces in the months and years ahead, as well as supporting processes that cross SAP Business Suite software. At HR 2010, you can learn about the possibilities, business process support, and services for HR that are available today to shape a better future for your company’s tomorrow, and you can explore the latest market trends and the future roadmap for SAP ERP HCM. You’ll also have a chance to meet with other customers, top experts from SAP, and SAP partners to get answers to your questions about HR process optimization and transformation and to discuss new ways of leveraging SAP solutions to meet your organization’s goals. The insights gained at this event will help you determine the right strategy and course of action to get the most from your investments across SAP Business Suite. Please join me in Orlando, March 16-19, 2010. Cordially,

Roland Schmid Vice President of Product Management Solutions SAP AG

Schedule Conference, March 16-19

Jumpstart Day Monday, March 15

Tuesday, March 16

Wednesday, March 17

Thursday, March 18

Friday, March 19

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Morning Jumpstart sessions

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Keynote address

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Overview

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Unrivaled education Jumpstart Day • March 15 Special pre-conference sessions hosted on this day fortify your understanding of key concepts and technologies. Jumpstart Day offers you special threehour sessions that enable you to:

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„ Fortify your understanding of

critical SAP technologies and solutions „ Explore new trends and strategies

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„ Enhance your learning experience

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at the main conference By registering for Jumpstart Day, you can: „ Attend any Jumpstart sessions of

interest to you „ Benefit from expert-led

instruction, demos, guidelines, and dedicated question-andanswer time

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„ Receive exclusive Jumpstart Day

take-home materials containing the slides from all the day’s presentations „ Participate in a networking lunch

with other Jumpstart Day attendees

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5 CPE Credits Advance your career and keep your certification up-to-date. Earn up to 38 CPE credits by attending sessions offered at HR 2010.

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And the process is easy! You just need to fill out a 1-page evaluation form for each session you attend (we’ll give you an envelope containing those forms when you sign-in). At the end of the seminar, simply return the forms in the envelope, and include: „ Your name as you’d like it to

appear on the certificate „ A mailing address and phone

number/email address „ Number of credits you earned

Special sessions

Metrics and optimization strategies

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Sessions in this track offer strategies for leveraging current and upcoming features in SAP ERP HCM. Identify the latest market trends, including how top organizations are leveraging SAP functionality to drive HR business value. Receive instruction to update your SAP ERP HCM system with HR service packs (HRSPs) and tax update bulletins (TUBs). Also presented are guidelines for rolling out SAP functionality to newly merged or acquired companies.

Talent, compensation, and performance management

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This track provides best practices and in-depth product education for leveraging talent management functionality from SAP. Hear how other customers standardize HR processes and transform talent, manage performance and compensation, optimize recruiting activities, and derive maximized value from their enterprise learning programs. Explore strategies for linking the appraisal process to long-term performance and leadership development goals.

Employee and manager self-services

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This track offers proven techniques for properly and efficiently leveraging SAP functionality for enhanced HR service delivery. Education in this track explores the requirements and success factors for enhancing self-service applications to improve the delivery and performance of your HR business processes. Receive instruction to customize the look, feel, and content of your self-service applications.

Payroll, benefits, and time management

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This is an opportunity to hear how other SAP customers streamline key payroll and time management activities to optimize system performance and track ROI. Find out how your counterparts are managing complex global payroll scenarios. Explore strategies to monitor and manage benefit costs. Understand how SAP functionality supports key tax models, tax combinations, and tax types.

HR and payroll reporting, analytics, and compliance strategies

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This track offers essential lessons to help you achieve maximum value from your reporting and analytics initiatives. Sessions examine the functionality, tradeoffs, and requirements of the full range of reporting solutions in your SAP landscape. Bolster your understanding of ad hoc reporting options and techniques. Receive guidelines for extracting data from your payroll processes to create meaningful reports.

HR objects, organizational charts, data, and security

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Sessions in this track offer best practices to configure and optimize your personnel administration (PA) and organizational management (OM) processes and structures. Receive step-by-step instruction for creating organizational charts. Explore advanced techniques to create a custom suite of objects, relationships, and evaluation paths to solve complex HR and self-service challenges. Also presented are guidelines for selecting, configuring, and maintaining your HR authorization concept and essential education to help you reduce the risk of security violations.

System globalization

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Sessions at HR 2010 offer lessons to help SAP customers optimize their HCM functionality to support global requirements. Attend these sessions for strategies and technologies to properly handle complex payroll, data, security, and talent management processes on a global scale.

For more information and to register, visit www.sapinsiderhr2010.com or call SAP Insider at +1-781-751-8700

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Networking opportunities Ask-the-Experts Sit down one-on-one with leading experts to ask questions and get detailed, authoritative answers. Pick up strategies and best practices for using and managing SAP product functionality and requirements. Understand how to apply what you learn at HR 2010 at your organization. Build on what you learn in the breakout sessions and discuss the following topics:

Conference orientation session and introduction to networking This informative session will familiarize you with the key elements of this conference including the educational sessions, networking forums, Solutions Showcase layout, and more — everything you need to know to get the greatest value from your conference experience. „ Learn how to navigate the program and choose the sessions of greatest interest to you „ Find out when and where networking activities are scheduled and how to make the most of them „ Meet peers you can interact with at the event and keep in touch with for years to come „ Get to know the conference staff and find out how they can help you throughout the conference

„ Talent management „ Payroll and taxes „ Performance management „ Employee and manager self-services „ Time management „ HR reporting and compliance

Discussion groups, idea exchanges, and Q&A forums Step away from the standard lecture format and share ideas and advice with your peers. At these informal discussion groups, you can share “war stories,” how-to information, and techniques you’ve learned based on your own experiences. Expert-led discussion forums and idea exchanges offer:

„ Compensation management „ HR data and technology „ E-Recruiting „ Benefits enrollment and administration

„ Informal discussions with other attendees, moderated by an expert „ No lectures — it’s an interactive forum that is topic-specific „ A chance to ask questions of peers at other companies „ An opportunity to share your own insights and experiences with others

„ HR structures and org charts „ Shared services „ Succession planning and leadership development „ Training and enterprise learning „ HR security and authorizations „ Implementations and upgrades

Evening reception After a day of learning, relax and discuss your findings with your colleagues. Tour the Solutions Showcase, view the tools and services that could enhance your HR environment, and interact with speakers. „ Take advantage of the opportunity to talk with speakers, whose sessions you attended during the day, and ask detailed follow-up questions „ Gather real-world advice from peers who have experienced the same challenges that you and your team currently face „ Take a firsthand look at the cutting edge products and new functionality that SAP and other vendors are now offering

“Seeing how other companies use Organizational Management for their HR processes was very interesting. There were also great networking opportunities and the Solutions Showcase was extremely valuable.” — Mary Vander Meulen Tellabs

Networking roundtables Sit down with your counterparts before you start the day to share ideas and plan your agenda. Find out what they’re learning at the conference and share your own insights as you build a lasting network of peers. Choose to network with peers from your industry or colleagues who are working on the same types of projects.

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HR Expert, published 10 times a year, is the premier online knowledgebase for teams that use, deploy, and support SAP functionality for HR. Prior to the conference, you will have access to a selection of HR Expert articles via the conference Web site at www.sapinsiderhr2010.com/HRexpert. This new forum offers attendees the opportunity to meet leading authors from HR Expert, discuss topics from recent articles, and network with their peers.

HR Expert Live sessions Consolidate small paychecks with a quick and simple business process Steve Bogner

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Speed up configuration by using a manual transport of configuration table entries Clay Molinari

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Create statistics lists using the SAP query tool for a summarized analysis of your HR data Danielle Larocca Signorile

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Allow users to view organizational structures in multiple languages Julie DeLaTorre

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Three tips for getting the most out of HR Expert Live sessions 1.

Read the articles in advance, and bring printed copies with you so you can take notes.

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Throughout this brochure, look for sessions with the HR Expert Live label to find the HR Expert articles that will be presented at HR 2010.

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Attend the HR Expert Live session to hear additional tips and tricks that didn’t make it to print, and prepare your own questions to ask the authors at the end of the session.

For more information and to register, visit www.sapinsiderhr2010.com or call SAP Insider at +1-781-751-8700

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Join us for Jumpstart Day — Monday, March 15 Jumpstart Day offers you special three-hour sessions that enable you to: „ Fortify your understanding of critical SAP technologies and solutions „ Explore new trends and strategies „ Enhance your learning experience at the main conference

By registering for Jumpstart Day, you can: „ Attend any Jumpstart Day sessions of interest to you „ Benefit from expert-led instruction, demos, guidelines, and

dedicated question-and-answer time „ Receive exclusive Jumpstart Day take-home materials containing the

slides from all Jumpstart Day presentations „ Participate in a networking lunch with other Jumpstart Day attendees

Jumpstart Day Sessions Monday, March 15

Morning sessions • 9:00 am – 12:00 pm New strategies and guidelines for leveraging SAP ® functionality for employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service (MSS)

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What every HR team now needs to know about SAP ERP HCM: Capabilities, benefits, requirements, and infrastructure

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Lunch • 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Afternoon sessions • 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Proven techniques that improve payroll processes and operations

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A comprehensive, up-to-date guide to SAP features, functions, and infrastructure for talent management

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Morning Sessions • 9:00 am – 12:00 pm New strategies and guidelines for leveraging SAP® functionality for employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service (MSS)

What every HR team now needs to know about SAP ERP HCM: Functionality, benefits, requirements, and infrastructure

9:00 am – 12:00 pm

9:00 am – 12:00 pm

This detailed three-hour session explores the expanded range of features that SAP now delivers for employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service (MSS) and the technical foundation upon which they run.

HR departments are being asked to quickly adapt to business and market changes, increase the efficiency of their workforces, and control and lower HR-related costs — all while ensuring global visibility and compliance. This session is essential for organizations that are addressing these challenges by leveraging functionality within SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM).

y Get an overview of how self-services can be used to streamline important HR administration and managerial processes, such as: -

Salary verification Benefits management Recruiting Training Succession planning

y Step through demos that illustrate the latest features of employee and manager self-services and how they are delivered via SAP NetWeaver® Portal y Examine usage scenarios that illustrate how to get the highest return on your ESS and MSS investments y Get best practices that empower employees to take charge of their personal data and transactions y Obtain guidelines for how much autonomy to provide end users and where the HR department should retain control y Find out where an MSS portal is most likely to save money and improve managerial processes y Gather tips to properly equip managers with selfservices and enable them to maintain a high-performing workforce

y Step through a complete HR scenario and learn the best ways to support critical end-to-end HR business processes, from hire-to-rehire, by leveraging the following SAP functionality: -

Organizational management E-recruiting processes HR master data Time management Payroll Talent management Global employment and concurrent employment

y Learn how SAP ERP HCM components integrate with each other and with other applications in your SAP landscape y See how the latest enhancements in the areas of compensation, shared service delivery, travel management, and talent management could affect your SAP ERP HCM landscape, both now and in the future y Explore the business and technical requirements for utilizing the functionality covered in this session

y Come away with advice to prepare end-user, HR, IT, and support organizations for self-service operations, including change management and training considerations

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Afternoon Sessions • 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Proven techniques that improve payroll processes and operations

A comprehensive, up-to-date guide to SAP features, functions, and infrastructure for talent management

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm This comprehensive three-hour session provides essential information any SAP payroll professional can use to improve the efficiency and accuracy of existing payroll processes and operations. y Find out how to use process models to streamline and increase consistency in your regular payroll runs y See how to reduce the time spent making adjustments by properly analyzing your payroll for errors before payments are delivered and posted to financial accounts y Gather proven methods to prevent and manage payroll claims y Hear step-by-step instruction for enhancing your payroll history forms to provide additional details needed by your staff y Learn how to ensure the accuracy of your payroll results with proven data validation and error prevention techniques y Receive expert advice to improve payroll calculation rules and facilitate reporting and analysis y Understand the proper ways to reconcile payroll, and review the standard reports you’ll need to support reconciliation processes y Obtain configuration best practices to standardize and streamline third-party payment processing, including processing payments from benefits providers and charitable donations y Get guidelines for tracking payroll issues to identify processes that need improvement and organizational units that require additional training

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm This special three-hour session provides live demos and an in-depth guide to SAP functionality for talent management. y Evaluate the features and integration points of SAP solutions for: -

E-recruiting Employee development Enterprise performance management Enterprise compensation management Succession planning

y Review key data objects within talent management functionality — including requisitions, appraisal, course, budget, and job family data objects — and see how each integrates with core HR transactional components y Step through examples that illustrate an end-to-end requisition process in SAP E-Recruiting y See how to set up a performance and compensation management program y Gain insight into how to manage an employee’s development using SAP Learning Solution y Learn how to properly leverage SAP functionality to analyze the performance of your workforce from endto-end, including tips for talent appraisals and calibration y Find out how to integrate workforce performance and compensation management activities y Explore learner functionality, content delivery features, and administrative tools in SAP Learning Solution y See how the SAP Talent Visualization application by Nakisa integrates with SAP functionality for talent management to provide a fully Web-based succession management solution

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Track 1

Metrics and optimization strategies

Results of Towers Perrin’s 12th annual survey of HR service delivery and technology: How does your organization measure up? Examine the results of the 12th annual Towers Perrin HR service delivery survey to see how top HR organizations design and manage HR service delivery to enable employees and managers to be more strategic, proactive, and self-reliant. Gain insight to apply these findings to your own organization. Identify trends and trace the evolution of HR service delivery over the past 12 years. Get details on the specific HR technology and functionality that respondents plan to introduce in the coming year. Hear what steps they view as necessary to improve HR’s strategic influence. Break down the components of leading HR service delivery models to examine how companies are leveraging self-service functionality, HR shared service centers, and HR call centers. Leave with an understanding of the differentiators between organizations that are succeeding with their self-service deployments and those that are not.

Best practices for achieving a higher return on your investment in SAP ERP HCM This session offers critical advice to help you meet return on investment (ROI) targets for your SAP ERP HCM project. Find out how to properly assess which SAP ERP HCM functionality can be used to help you attract, develop, and retain the right people. Learn how to align functionality with corporate objectives to meet your organization’s unique needs and pain points. Get proven advice to prevent common pitfalls, such as excessive custom modifications and insufficient testing, that can drive up costs in SAP ERP HCM projects. Identify ways to measure the key personnel-related factors that can make or break the ROI for your SAP ERP HCM project, including employee retention rates, job satisfaction, absenteeism, and productivity.

Driving HR process efficiency and business value with proven metrics and analytics Hear firsthand the results of Deloitte’s 2008 HR process benchmarking study. Find out what the study reveals about how top organizations track performance metrics for directional guidance and cost-saving opportunities. Based on the survey findings, learn how to establish key performance indicators (KPIs) that provide an accurate assessment of your organization’s HR process efficiency and effectiveness. Obtain best practices to create an effective benchmarking strategy in SAP ERP HCM to track your most important metrics and provide a basis for decision-making. Come away with an understanding of what differentiates organizations that are succeeding with their HR benchmarking efforts and those that are not.

Simple and inexpensive ways to keep your team members energized, focused, and motivated With organizations’ tightened budgets, reduced staff, and increased pressure to do more with less, it’s no wonder teams are struggling to keep up their spirits. This session combines practical ideas with a much-needed splash of optimism intended to send you back to the office ready to motivate your team for success. Examine some of the key challenges the economy poses to teams and get ideas to address these issues. Identify ways to keep your team focused on the positive rather than becoming overwhelmed by the challenges. Get ideas to stay in tune with your team and encourage open communication. Obtain tips to manage your own expectations in terms of what you can — and can’t — do when it comes to influencing the motivation and morale of your staff.

Case study

Best practices from IDEXX Laboratories’ global rollout of SAP ERP HCM Explore the successes and lessons learned by IDEXX Laboratories as it embarked on a global SAP ERP HCM rollout. Examine the company’s approach for evaluating and choosing an implementation partner. Find out how IDEXX decided which tasks to keep in-house and which to source, such as payroll. Hear how the company overcame the daunting challenge of tailoring its project to meet the unique HR requirements of 20 countries. Go behind the scenes to see how and why IDEXX chose to implement the SAP Talent Visualization application by Nakisa. Gain insight from the organization’s approach to global data conversion. Learn techniques that helped IDEXX speed up testing and validation, including two rounds of tests of 60 different scenarios. Learn how IDEXX approached and balanced configuration tasks across several different components, such as personnel administration, organizational management, employee self-service, manager self-service, and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW).

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A comprehensive guide to integrating newly merged or acquired companies into your SAP ERP HCM environment

Customer lessons to help you build the business case for an HR shared service center

How to use social networking to facilitate communication among SAP stakeholders

Draw from the experiences of several real-life projects to get proven tips that will help you plan for and meet the unique requirements of merging a new business unit, division, or company into an existing SAP ERP HCM implementation. Examine the ins and outs of the business acquisition process, from the implementation to the integration, change management, user training, and technical issues you’ll face along the way. Learn how to integrate new business acquisitions into your SAP ERP HCM environment from both a functional and technical perspective, including how the integration will affect HR structures and benefit programs. Find out how to leverage the SAP Legacy System Migration Workbench tool and the extended computer aided test tool to assist with the file conversion process, reduce required resources, and expedite the integration process.

Hear lessons, based on customer experiences from more than 500 HR transformation and shared service center projects, that you can use to build your own business case for a shared service center. Examine the success factors and challenges customers have faced when rolling out SAP ERP HCM in a shared service environment. Learn how to avoid common mistakes that can cause an HR shared service project to fall short of its objectives. Obtain techniques for defining business rules associated with master data maintenance. Explore best practices for establishing an appropriate activity split. Learn how technology can be leveraged to support the harmonization of HR business processes and standardization of IT policies. Step through detailed examples that illustrate how technologies such as SAP Interactive Forms software by Adobe, Duet™ software, and Alloy™ software by IBM and SAP can be used to increase efficiency in an HR shared service center.

Social networking sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter have transitioned from an interesting curiosity to a primary means of communication. Imagine if you could use social networking technology to create interest and buzz among the stakeholders for all of your ongoing SAP initiatives. This cuttingedge session will examine some of the basic principles for implementing and maintaining effective social networks that support your SAP community. Explore the many ways to increase communication among your SAP stakeholders using both virtual and real-time channels. Learn how the social networking concept is directly related to super user programs and centers of excellence. Gain an understanding of what it takes to initiate social networking within your organization and to monitor and maintain those efforts for long-term success.

How to keep up with the latest market trends in salaries using SAP functionality for job pricing

Upgrade versus enhancement package installation: Which best supports your HR strategy?

Take a comprehensive look at how to set up the job pricing process in SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) — from configuration to end-user experience. Find out how internal salary ranges can be compared to market values and ultimately adjusted to reflect the most accurate market data. Step through a demo that shows how job pricing is conducted through a portal-based interface. Explore each step of the job pricing process, including searching for an internal job to price, matching it to market data, and viewing comparisons between internal and market data. Learn what’s required to set up job pricing in SAP ERP HCM, including which infotypes are required and how to import data. Get best practices for how to save data correctly, date the composite results, and apply the composites to actual salary ranges.

Take a guided tour of the SAP product roadmap that illustrates current and planned features for all areas of SAP ERP HCM, including functionality and updates for compensation management, shared service delivery, travel management, and talent management. Understand how enhancement packages are being used to deliver updates and additions to the functionality and usability of SAP ERP HCM. Compare the enhancement package installation process with a full-blown upgrade, and decide which approach best fits your HR strategy. Gain an understanding of the switch framework and how it is used to activate the enhancement package updates you choose to install. Drill down into the features and functionality contained in SAP Business Suite 7 (including enhancement packages 1 through 4), as well as those coming later in 2010. Step through before-and-after demos and overviews of the major functional enhancements.

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Talent, compensation, and performance management How to implement innovative reward strategies and long-term incentive programs Review the latest enterprise compensation management (ECM) features in SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) to see how they can be leveraged for compensation administration, long-term incentives, budgeting, job pricing, and salary benchmarking. View a demo of the new innovations for managers in the compensation planning and administrative processes. See firsthand how the new ECM features offer managers increased flexibility and support for multi-level approvals, notifications, and budget oversight. Explore reporting and administrative enhancements for compensation specialists, including tools for aligning compensation plans to business processes, as well as functionality that more efficiently monitors and audits compensation processes and data. Customer panel

Achieving excellence and innovation in your SAP initiatives for talent management — Lessons learned from three unique projects How can you capture the best of all the lessons learned, words of wisdom, and voices of experience about talent management offerings from SAP — in only 60 minutes? You gather a group of SAP ERP HCM customers and give them the “2-minute challenge,” in which they take turns sharing a tip, a best practice, or a lesson learned from each of their recent talent management projects. Understand the pitfalls and challenges your peers encountered and come away with practical advice for avoiding them in your organization. Join us for what will be one of the most creative, fast-moving panel discussions you’ve ever experienced! You’ll walk away from this session with dozens of ideas and best practices that you can put to immediate use in your talent management solutions and rollouts.

A new and comprehensive guide to the latest SAP functionality for employee performance management This session offers best practices for using new employee performance management functionality in SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) to align team and individual goals with corporate goals and strategies. Understand how and where recent enhancements, such as predefined and flexible performance management processes, will affect usability. Review the functionality, configuration options, and prerequisites of two performance appraisal templates. Step through examples that show how to centrally maintain corporate and team goals using new cascading goals functionality. Understand how performance management functionality integrates with SAP Learning Solution to support achievement of employee development goals. Learn how to simplify the performance management process using improved calibration features. Come away with an understanding of how the planned innovations for employee performance management can impact your talent management strategies.

Proven techniques to optimize your organization’s global compensation management strategy This session offers best practices to properly leverage the latest enterprise compensation management (ECM) features in SAP ERP HCM on a global scale. Explore your options for developing custom alternatives to the standard ECM functionality, including configuration techniques and using business add-ins (BAdIs). Understand how prerequisites, dependencies, integration points, required resources, and the functional and technical frameworks differ between singlecountry and global ECM implementations. Get guidelines for managing the unique challenges and complexities associated with global ECM projects, such as multiple currencies, exchange rates, and differences in compensation. Assess cultural and local business practice considerations — such as data privacy issues — that could significantly affect the design and rollout of your global compensation management system. Take home a quick reference guide detailing the steps required to implement and configure ECM functionality from SAP in singlecountry and global environments.

Case study

Lessons learned from Microsoft’s innovative global SAP E-Recruiting project This presentation offers an in-depth look at the goals, results, and lessons learned from Microsoft Corporation’s implementation of SAP E-Recruiting across 88 countries. Step through each phase of the SAP E-Recruiting project — from envisioning to post-deployment — to learn how the application was integrated with existing business components. Take a tour of Microsoft’s SAP E-Recruiting application and explore the innovative ways in which Web Dynpro pages were wrapped into Microsoft SharePoint to create a consistent, more user-friendly interface. Gain an understanding of Microsoft’s Web Dynpro development approach and learn how to reduce the potential performance impact that can result from modifications and changes. Leverage Microsoft’s experience with implementing Enhancement Packs 3 and 4. Drill down into the custom ERecruiting functionality Microsoft developed, including offer management functionality that integrates with SAP ERP HCM pay scale data. Learn how Microsoft improved the searchability and usability of candidate data by parsing resume data to SAP E-Recruiting fields. Get lessons learned to help you identify and overcome common project risks and improve controls during an SAP E-Recruiting implementation.

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SAP’s strategic framework for understanding and meeting your organization’s talent needs To compete effectively, every organization must be able to define, discover, develop, and deploy the right talent at the right time. This session provides an introduction to SAP’s strategic framework that enables companies to assess, identify, and meet talent requirements. Find out how to create an HR applications scorecard that can help your company assess its talent management processes and solutions. Understand how to use your scorecard results to design a roadmap that takes into consideration your current HR applications, short- and long-term goals, integration points, and much more when prioritizing which areas you will tackle first. Come away with guidelines for implementing your own talent management operation model, including suggestions on who needs to be involved and tips to get the process started.

Expert guidance for choosing and leveraging the right performance management template Assess your options for leveraging the latest predefined and flexible performance management user interface templates available from SAP. Evaluate the functionality, tradeoffs, and requirements of each option. Get guidelines to help you determine which is best suited for your environment. Step through examples using the predefined template to see how its new intuitive design offers improved usability. Walk through demos that show how to leverage the flexible template to rearrange screen elements, change the size of textboxes and appraisal frames, and control which tab is the entry point. Find out what’s required to properly implement a flexible solution without disrupting the upgrade path. Come away with ideas on where to begin if you’re new to performance management — or how to take an existing implementation to a more advanced, strategic level.

Case study

Case study

How AspireHR enhanced employee growth and internal succession

How Steel Technologies designed and built a training department on a limited budget

Leverage AspireHR’s experience for tips to help you determine your strategic objectives and design your appraisal mechanisms before you attempt to automate talent management processes in your SAP system. Step through a demo that shows how AspireHR developed and implemented a competency framework to monitor employee skills and qualifications, identify skills gaps, and assist with professional development and career planning. Get recommendations, based on AspireHR’s experience, for incorporating job requirements into performance management and succession management plans. Hear how the company overcame challenges associated with integrating search and classification (TREX) functionality and Nakisa solutions into the talent management processes in its SAP system. Come away with examples of AspireHR’s best practices for making talent management investment decisions that balance employee development, resource deployment optimization, and compensation alignment with organizational goals.

Hear how Steel Technologies successfully implemented SAP Learning Solution across multiple locations on a limited budget and without a formalized training department. Examine the company’s initial project scope, which included the ability to track employee qualifications that are subject to expiration, such as first aid and CPR requirements. Understand how Steel Technologies built a course catalog and a qualifications catalog for training programs to support these needs. Get valuable advice based on the company’s experience developing SAP Learning Solution roles, including a review of the functions performed by learners, managers, training administrators, and content managers responsible for using the authoring environment. Take home implementation guidelines you can use as you consider, evaluate, or plan an SAP Learning Solution rollout.

Best practices and technologies to align talent management activities with strategic business objectives Get an in-depth look at what’s new with talent management functionality in SAP ERP HCM, including an overview of how these new features can benefit your organization. Understand how to leverage succession management functionality with the SAP Talent Visualization application by Nakisa. Step through demos of the new user interface technology available for succession management, performance management, recruiting, and learning. Get an overview of the latest predefined and flexible performance management user interface templates available from SAP, including tips for determining which is best suited for your environment. Explore enhancements to SAP ERecruiting functionality that improve usability, including streamlined requisition management and enhanced candidate profiles. Gain insight into SAP’s strategic product roadmap to understand how planned enhancements will continue to shape future talent management offerings. Examine the business decisions and technical prerequisites required to leverage SAP offerings for talent management.

A guide to the latest enhancements to SAP E-Recruiting Learn how SAP E-Recruiting has been enhanced to provide recruiters with more tools and queries to find the right fit for each job opening, including enhanced search features, requisition management, application tracking, new candidate profiles, and administrative services. View comprehensive demos of the usability improvements made with enhancement package 4 for SAP E-Recruiting, including a new Web Dynpro user interface. See how the new user interface impacts the recruiter and administrator roles. Examine your options for personalizing dashboards using query settings, candidate selection list settings, and search settings. Find out how to integrate SAP E-Recruiting with partner solutions to conduct background checks and résumé parsing. Gain insight into the future roadmap and innovations planned for SAP E-Recruiting.

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Expert recommendations for making better and faster decisions about your talent pipeline and successor rankings Learn how to manage succession processes in your organization — from preprocesses, such as performance and compensation management, to successor nomination and pipeline building, readiness and ranking, and talent reviews. Get an overview of how the SAP Talent Visualization application by Nakisa can be used to place talent data into its proper organizational context. Find out how to maintain competencies and reuse them in multiple talent management processes. Learn how to set up and work with talent groups to establish proactive lists or pipelines of potential successors for the most important roles in your organization. Receive advice on how to manage development plans and learning activities. Come away with an understanding of how planned enhancements will continue to shape future talent visualization offerings.

Advanced techniques to enhance and customize your SAP Enterprise Learning environment

How to manage enterprise learning strategies and reduce costs with SAP Enterprise Learning This session offers an in-depth look at how to leverage the latest tools contained in SAP Enterprise Learning for developing dynamic content, improving collaborative learning, and simplifying learning management. View a demo that illustrates how to use the training administrator portal for tasks such as offline course distribution. Explore your options for using the new Web-based rapid content publishing tool to save time and costs when migrating or upgrading from previous versions of SAP Learning Solution. Conceptual diagrams and visual examples show how you can easily and effectively manage employee qualifications and learning in concurrent and global environments.

Insider discussion forum

Succession planning and talent management processes: Lessons from the trenches This informal discussion forum offers you the opportunity to draw from the experiences of your peers best practices, lessons learned, and critical success factors for leveraging SAP functionality for talent management. Hear how other customers standardize HR processes and transform talent, manage performance and compensation, optimize recruiting activities, and derive maximized value from their enterprise learning strategies. Learn how your peers are using SAP solutions to take their talent management applications to a wider audience. Explore unique ways others are leveraging SAP Talent Visualization by Nakisa functionality to ensure sustainable availability of top talent to meet ever-changing demands and circumstances. Take part in the discussion and get real-world examples of how companies are using technology to improve their talent management processes.

Get step-by-step instructions to enhance SAP Enterprise Learning functionality within the training management system, learning portal, content player, and instructor and administrator portals. Explore best practices for enhancing back-end training administration functions, such as fee handling for chargebacks and resource management. Learn how to use business add-ins (BAdIs) to further personalize the correspondence function and support changes to cancellation functionality. Get recommendations for personalizing the learner portal, including tips to enhance business server pages using a customer table. Obtain techniques to add reports to the administrator and instructor portals. View a demo that provides step-by-step instruction to change the look and feel of the content player. Take home a detailed list of all delivered BAdIs you can use to customize your own enterprise learning landscape.

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Employee and manager self-services

Case study

Best practices and lessons learned from Coca-Cola Enterprises’ global rollout of SAP functionality for employee and manager selfservices Examine the success factors and challenges Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) faced when rolling out SAP functionality for self-services while undergoing an HR transformation and shared service center project. Get tips from CCE for preimplementation planning. Hear how the company handled language support and Internet-enabled mobile access. Find out how the company designed user interfaces that boost adoption of employee and manager self-service processes. Step through examples that show how CCE integrates Web Dynpro-based employee self-service applications with other portals. Hear how CCE leverages SAP ERP HCM processes and forms to enhance manager selfservice usability. Get best practices from the company for training tools and change management methodology, and understand why they were vital to the success of CCE’s global self-services strategy.

Self-service strategies and best practices customers are using to reduce HR costs Based on lessons from recent and mature selfservice implementations, this session details the strategies and best practices that have been most effective at meeting strategic HR and cost-savings objectives for employee and manager self-service initiatives. Review details of the three most significant ways SAP customers are saving money through their self-service deployments. Understand the technology, implementation, and upgrade decisions that have the largest impact on support and maintenance costs. Discover the nine factors that must be accounted for to ensure a successful employee or manager self-service implementation. Get criteria to verify that processes are good candidates for self-services. Obtain proven techniques to keep self-service deployments aligned with your organization’s strategic goals. Take home a guide to self-service benefits and requirements.

Technical lessons for designing self-service interfaces that enhance usability and boost adoption This session offers best practices for leveraging SAP NetWeaver user interface content and tools to improve usability and boost user adoption of self-services. Step through examples of self-service applications that use various user interface technologies. Know your options for leveraging alternate service delivery channels, from kiosks and mobile devices to SAP NetWeaver Business Client, Duet, and Alloy. Learn how to best utilize the design tools SAP makes available, including the floorplan manager, Web page composer, and POWER lists (POWL) tools. Come away with expert advice for choosing which user interface technologies and components are best suited for your organization’s self-service needs, and get lessons to prepare for the impact of these features.

Strategies and technologies for managing employee travel and expenses with SAP functionality for travel management Explore the latest travel management features and functionality delivered with enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP HCM, including a technical switch to Web Dynpro for ABAP™ and new integration with partners for online booking features. Step through detailed screenshots that show how these enhancements streamline travel management processes using SAP functionality for employee self-service, including advance request, pretrip approval, online booking, expense reporting, and audit and reimbursement functionality. Understand how to leverage the integration between SAP ERP HCM and SAP ERP Financials to improve travel policy compliance, monitor out-of-policy bookings, and optimize travel expense and settlement processes.

Case study

Lessons from the National University of Singapore’s selfservice customization project Find out how the National University of Singapore (NUS) simplifies the customization of self-service user interfaces and travel management processes by leveraging new enhancements to Web Dynpro for ABAP user interface technology. Walk through examples that illustrate how the organization’s choice of user interface technology affects the way users consume content. Step through a demo that shows how NUS modified travel request interfaces and corresponding back-end transactions. Find out how the organization customizes back-end business functionalities using implicit and explicit configuration and personalization, including pre-exit, overwrite exit, and post-exit methods. Hear how NUS used the switch framework to activate changes. Come away with an understanding of how NUS identified the most critical skill sets and resources needed for its self-service customization project team.

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Increase your proficiency with SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe to improve self-services and streamline HR processes

Lessons for enhancing employee and manager self-service delivery by customizing the homepage framework

Understand the proper way to set up SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe and use it to streamline existing HR business processes. Get ideas to enhance employee self-service and manager self-service usability with SAP Interactive Forms features. Explore how SAP Interactive Forms functionality aids users in streamlining data entry, drives online and offline forms usage, and ties into workflow for submissions, approvals, and reviews. Find out how to properly check a workflow process to ensure that all business audit requirements are met. Step through examples that show how SAP Interactive Forms can be customized and changed to meet the needs of your HR business requirements using custom error messages, dynamically generated field content, and restrictions on form data that align with system security.

Obtain best practices to enhance the layout, function, and design of portal-based employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service (MSS) applications in your SAP system using the homepage framework. Review the features and technical prerequisites of this functionality, and get step-by-step instructions on the best ways to set it up. Learn how to add content and customize the look and feel of the homepage framework to include any combination of standard and custom iViews (portlets) along with delivered ESS and MSS services. See examples of real-life portals that successfully combine ESS and MSS in a single framework. Gather ideas to increase the effectiveness of self-services. Take home a tutorial with detailed steps you can follow to add previously developed or new custom iViews to the framework.

Expert guidance for delivering full delegation functionality with manager self-service processes using the object and data provider (OADP) framework

Lessons from customers who are optimizing workforce process management using SAP ERP HCM processes and forms

This session provides step-by-step configuration tips to properly leverage the object and data provider (OADP) framework to enhance delegation in manager self-service processes. Step through demos that show how to enhance OADP views using standard configuration, including object selections, object selection rules, organizational views, and organizational view groups. Understand when ABAP development is required to modify iViews (portlets), and get tips to leverage business add-ins (BAdIs) and custom function components. Find out what’s required to display all the table views within the OADP framework and which manager self-service iViews — such as ”directly reporting employees” and ”all employees” — utilize the OADP framework as a standard. Receive expert advice to configure the OADP framework to support these manager self-service iViews, along with compensation planning and cross-application timesheet (CATS) approval iViews.

Review the successes and lessons learned by customers who have implemented SAP ERP HCM processes and forms. Get expert advice to properly blueprint and prepare for a technical implementation, including details on how to set up and use critical infotype fields and structures. Review back-end system configuration requirements, including recommendations for designing a form, building a workflow template, and customizing a process. Obtain guidelines for properly testing, correcting, and rolling out SAP ERP HCM processes and forms. Learn about the new process types available in enhancement package 4, including processes for maintaining organizational management objects and enabling fast data entry through the HR administrator role. Take home over 300 pages of documentation explaining the uses of SAP ERP HCM processes and forms.

Strategies to properly secure employee and manager selfservice applications Get an overview of the fundamental authorization concepts you need to know to avoid the top four security vulnerabilities that commonly occur in employee and manager self-service applications, including conflicting portal and back-end authorizations. Ensure that managers and employees access only the data that is relevant to their jobs by unifying SAP NetWeaver Portal roles with SAP ERP roles. Get criteria to determine whether to enable single sign-on across your whole IT network or solely within your SAP environment. Understand the impact that integrating SAP and non-SAP applications has on single sign-on. Find out how to achieve the right level of access control and compliance through the proper use and provisioning of roles, including recommendations on automating role assignments. Take home a checklist of steps for testing security and a cheat sheet of common authorizations and security transactions.

Insider discussion forum

Real-world lessons to deploy and optimize employee and manager self-service applications Are you evaluating your options for employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service (MSS) functionality, about to begin utilizing ESS and MSS, or currently utilizing ESS and MSS applications in your SAP system? Join your peers to discuss the opportunities and unique challenges of a self-service project to determine whether it’s the right choice for your organization. Explore the unique ways other SAP customers are using employee and manager self-service applications and SAP NetWeaver Portal, along with the critical decisions, steps, and resources they have tackled. Examine the functionality these resources offer and discuss the business, usability, and navigational and technical tradeoffs encountered along the way. Learn how your peers are leveraging SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe to enhance usability and increase adoption of employee and manager self-service applications.

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Payroll, benefits, and time management Case study

Mannington Mills’ innovative approach for improving the efficiency and accuracy of payroll processes and operations Learn how Mannington Mills streamlined payroll processes in SAP ERP HCM. Hear the company share its best practices, lessons learned, and tips to avoid potential pitfalls. Find out how Mannington Mills leverages SAP functionality for job scheduling to run payroll overnight and on weekends. Hear how the company uses alternate remuneration statements to simulate payroll reports by wage type. Understand how and why Mannington Mills created custom schemas to ignore ”other bank” results on infotype 0009 when processing payroll. See how the company ensures data integrity by reducing the number of off-cycle payments and reversals. Explore in detail how Mannington Mills applies and tests tax update bulletins (TUBs). Take home custom ABAP code that the company used to enable the automatic release of payroll for corrections.

Step-by-step instruction to customize payroll processes in your SAP system with custom schemas and rules Step through actual payroll processes to see real-life examples of how schemas and rules are used and how each impacts the final payroll output and results. Learn how to create and modify schemas and rules to meet your own needs. Leave with advice to avoid potentially costly mistakes when making changes to existing objects. Get tips to modify schemas and rules to generate different premium wage types and amounts based on the type of hour worked from a single premium code. Walk through a comprehensive example and learn how to build a custom rule, from designing the logic to adding documentation for the rule. Find out what’s required to update the schema to activate the rule. Take home sample custom rules for calculating taxable tuition and supplemental savings plan wages.

Best practices for updating your SAP ERP HCM implementation with HR support packages and tax update bulletins (TUBs) Examine what’s contained in tax update bulletins (TUBs) and HR support packages, and get best practices for determining why, when, and how to install them in SAP ERP HCM. Step through a checklist of the key applications, user roles, and system access necessary to ensure a successful installation of TUBs and HR support packages. Get tips for developing a TUBs installation strategy that keeps your organization current with critical updates, such as year-end and mid-year adjustments. Find out how to reduce the resources needed to install and test updates by implementing TUBs and HR support packages simultaneously. Learn which standard reports can help you identify the employee records that may need to be retroactively processed after installing TUBs. Find out how these reports can help you determine the differences employees can expect to find on their remuneration statements after an update.

Strategies and technologies for handling complex global payroll processes This session explores different options for setting up and processing payroll for multiple countries in a global or local system, including support for country-specific payroll regulations. Review the latest features, toolsets, and configuration options available with payroll functionality in SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM). See firsthand which payroll functions support global payroll administration. Explore the various country versions that SAP delivers for payroll, and get an overview of the functionality available within each, including tax calculation, social insurance, various labor distributions, and legal compliance reporting. Understand how business process outsourcing fits into the picture, including an overview of country-specific payroll versions provided by partner solutions. Leave with an understanding of additional payroll functionality planned for future releases of SAP ERP HCM, including maintenance and legal implications.

Case study

Lessons from The City of Burnaby for implementing and leveraging SAP functionality for concurrent employment Learn how The City of Burnaby developed its business case for implementing SAP functionality for concurrent employment. Examine the implementation, integration, and process decisions that were critical to its success. Step through demos that illustrate the city’s reallife scenarios for managing employees with multiple assignments. Find out how to determine whether your organization can benefit from, or is ready for, concurrent employment. Understand the effort The City of Burnaby underwent to convert existing payroll activities to concurrent employment. Get advice to configure personnel calculation rules, functions, and operations required to process payroll in a concurrent employment environment. Hear how The City of Burnaby continues to improve its concurrent employment process, including how it leverages dynamic actions to interface benefits information to the provider.

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Lessons for extending SAP ERP HCM functionality for payroll to support global requirements

Best practices to get the most from standard and ad hoc benefits reports

Examine standard and add-on SAP functionality for payroll that is available to support specific country requirements. Understand your options for processing payroll in countries that the SAP system does not support. Explore requirements and success factors associated with alternative payroll approaches, including partner solution country versions and third-party applications. Understand how the architecture of partner solution country versions differs from SAP solutions for payroll, and see how this will affect your landscape. Learn how to overcome potential limitations and risks associated with implementing and integrating partner solutions by making certain provisions in your global rollout strategy. Receive interface design and development best practices to properly integrate SAP ERP HCM functionality for payroll with a thirdparty payroll system, such as ADP. Come away with evaluation criteria to determine which payroll solution best suits your organization’s requirements.

Receive an overview of the standard benefits reports SAP delivers to manage and monitor costs, contributions, and overhead calculations. Learn where to find the most effective standard reports for health plans, flexible spending accounts, insurance plans, 401(k) plans, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Get proven tips for optimizing benefits reporting selection criteria, performance, and results. Come away with advice for creating ad hoc queries that address specific benefits reporting needs. Obtain instruction to create queries that capture dependent data so that you can avoid pitfalls such as inadvertently providing coverage to ineligible dependents. Explore how date specifications, such as retirement dates and benefit eligibility dates, can add tremendous value to your reports. Improve your ability to manipulate benefits report data through the use of Microsoft Excel.

A detailed look at the new overpayment recovery process functionality from SAP

This session explores key components behind quota records generated in the time evaluation schema and offers strategies to tackle the most common production problems that can occur. Learn how the validity interval and deduction interval interact with one another. Discover how SAP determines which quota record an accrual belongs to, and how this affects the availability of the accrual. Get best practices to handle “use it or lose it” quotas, rollover of balances at year-end, and quota payouts upon termination. Learn how to prevent undesired outcomes, such as negative quota balances. Find out how to avoid reactivating old quotas at rehire. Take home step-by-step instructions on how to fix absence quota deductions.

Discover the new overpayment recovery process available with enhancement package 4 that replaces the traditional SAP functionality for payroll claims. Learn how to self-direct claims recovery based on specific requirements, including how to set minimum wages to ensure that an employee is paid the specified amount, how to set a threshold to determine the recovered amount, and how to set a forgiveness flag. Examine the new payroll cluster that stores wage types and amounts that caused the overpayments and a new payroll function that can be used to repay the debt and recover the money. Find out how to leverage the new claims infotype that displays the amount owed from the payroll cluster, as well as data related to employee consent, employer notification attempt, total forgiveness, partial forgiveness, repayment amount, or percent.

Key concepts and best practices for trouble-free absence quotas

Case study

How and why Vistaprint implemented a custom interface between its SAP system and ADP payroll software Get an in-depth look at the design, development, and execution of Vistaprint’s interface between its SAP system and ADP’s PCPW and Pay eXpert® software. Examine the benefits the company realized, including improved Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Gain insight into why Vistaprint made the decision to create a custom ABAP interface. Review samples of Vistaprint’s interface files and explore the structure, format, and frequency of the files generated. Learn how Vistaprint resolved data conversion issues that occurred due to differences in the ways the ADP software and SAP system handle data. Find out how the company overcame obstacles associated with implementing an interface globally across separate instances and programs. Take home sample interface files, a copy of Vistaprint’s test plan and schedule, and a list of bugs found during testing.

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Consolidate small paychecks with a quick and simple business process Learn how to configure a business process using SAP functionality for payroll that automatically holds back small payments for employees until a specified minimum amount is reached. This configuration helps streamline the payroll process as a whole by consolidating multiple small paychecks into one larger check.

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Critical lessons for linking wage types and tax models as part of your payroll process

Guidelines to implement advanced custom payroll functions and operations

Understand the important link between wage types and tax models in SAP functionality for payroll, and learn exactly how and where wage type and tax information comes into play during payroll processing. Step through a comprehensive demo that shows how the link between wage types and tax models is utilized in the BSI® TaxFactory™ solution. Know what wage types are covered by processing classes 69 and 71 and how they relate to the tax model link. Understand how SAP ERP HCM supports key tax models, tax combinations, and tax types, and learn when and how to create them on your own. Learn how to avoid costly pitfalls associated with wage types and tax models, including tips to tweak the existing model for deferred compensation and volunteer taxes.

Move beyond basic table maintenance, schemas, and rules, and delve into the technical underpinnings of SAP ERP HCM features for payroll to learn how to build your own functions and operations. Get step-by-step instructions and code samples to customize your current payroll environment to meet specific requirements not supported by the standard configuration, such as customer-specific infotype data. Obtain guidelines to determine when custom functions and operations are appropriate to meet your payroll requirements, and get best practices for using them properly. Step through a real-world example that shows how to set up a cost accounting split, and get ABAP code to perform the operation. Examine specific programming methods for performing functions such as calculating and charging fringe benefit expenses. Learn how to bring a custom infotype field into a payroll rule for calculating vacation pay.

Tips and tricks to streamline benefit enrollment processes Get expert recommendations for customizing benefits functionality to ensure simple and effective enrollment and minimize the impact on network and server resources. Gather best practices to maximize the user experience, such as presenting plans in a determined order and including an ”as-of date” on confirmation letters. Control the plans and options that appear on the open enrollment screen by using an adjustment reason in place of the standard open enrollment offer. Review a sample program for mass load of infotype 0378. Understand the advantages of providing return values in all features and completing all cost and coverage rules with ”extra” entries. Take home a custom program that provides default enrollment for discontinued options, including creating an old-to-new mapping list, identifying target options, and assigning coverage in advance.

Expert guidance to set up and administer garnishments Get step-by-step guidance to properly create, adjust, and delimit a garnishment order using SAP functionality for payroll. Find out who issues garnishment orders and what basic information must be documented before you begin processing them. Understand how the maintenance of employee master data affects the accuracy of garnishment processing. Get proven tips for managing the effective dates of your garnishments. Find out which standard reports are available to track and monitor garnishment activity. Get tips for reading and interpreting the payroll results that drive the report output. Step through detailed examples that show how garnishment orders integrate with SAP ERP financial transactions, such as third-party payments. Come away with best practices for performing table maintenance in the implementation guide (IMG) to handle annual changes to tax levies by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Speed up configuration by using a manual transport of configuration table entries Learn one method that allows you to use an ABAP program to quickly load thousands of configuration table entries. Discover how you can follow this with a manual update in the transport to ensure that your changes are correctly captured.

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HR and payroll reporting, analytics, and compliance strategies Case study

How Valero Energy Corporation leverages query tools for its ad hoc reporting needs Hear how Valero Energy Corporation’s HRIS team uses query tools to provide a user-friendly reporting environment while also controlling user access to reports and reducing reporting errors. Get a step-by-step account of how the team leverages query tools to create ad hoc reports on benefits and general employee information with minimal training required for end users. Understand how and why the team was able to create a small number of queries with only two infosets while still satisfying many needs. Step through Valero’s tips for reducing reporting errors, such as duplicate lines, that are commonly committed by inexperienced ad hoc report users. Get ideas for how casual users can take advantage of queries and variants to create their own reports. Come away with an understanding of how your HRIS team can create the most efficient infosets for your organization.

What every HR team needs to know about using SAP NetWeaver BW for HR analytics This session guides you through the key elements, terminology, and acronyms that must be understood before fully utilizing SAP NetWeaver BW for HR reports and analytics. See how to tailor your SAP NetWeaver BW strategy depending on the audience you’re serving — executives, HR process owners, or end users. Through detailed visual examples, review the prerequisites, skills, and learning curve required to leverage SAP NetWeaver BW for your HR reporting needs. Understand how it integrates with SAP ERP and SAP BusinessObjects™ solutions. Get strategic guidelines to help determine whether it is suited for your environment. Hear lessons learned from a recent SAP NetWeaver BW implementation for HR, including how the project roadmap was outlined.

An essential guide to assessing and choosing the right option to meet your payroll reporting needs This comprehensive session provides best practices for running payroll reports properly and efficiently using the various reporting options available from SAP. Step through detailed examples of standard options like the wagetype reporter and payroll journal tools, as well as custom payroll reporting options and SAP NetWeaver BW. Understand the pros, cons, and requirements associated with each of these methods. Find out how to leverage existing SAP NetWeaver BW business content for HR reporting and analytics, and explore the hidden strengths of payroll’s integration with SAP NetWeaver BW data, including the integration of payroll and accounting data. Receive guidelines for determining when SAP ERP is better suited for your HR and payroll reporting requirements and when to use SAP NetWeaver BW.

How to improve workforce decisions using new analytical content and applications Learn the best ways to leverage the latest prepackaged content and analytic functionality available for SAP ERP HCM to streamline workforce, talent management, and shared service analytics. Find out how to optimize workforce process management and get tips to provide managers and other business stakeholders with timely organizational and policy information. Get an overview of the scope of analytic functionality available for SAP ERP HCM, which includes over 200 queries, 300 key figures, and 100 templates within SAP NetWeaver BW and six analytical composite applications. Learn about the concurrent employment enablement of SAP NetWeaver BW business content. Hear how you can achieve better insight into your workforce processes by leveraging SAP BusinessObjects tools for visualization. Examine screenshots that show SAP BusinessObjects integration features, including an embedded launch of content from Crystal Reports® and Xcelsius® software.

Case study

How Freescale Semiconductor manages compliance with safety training requirements using SAP functionality for qualifications Learn how Freescale Semiconductor utilizes SAP functionality for qualifications to manage manufacturing operator certifications and track regulatory requirements at the job, position, task, and organizational levels. See how this helps the organization manage compliance with environmental, health, and safety training requirements. Hear firsthand how Freescale Semiconductor migrated more than 10,000 data elements from legacy systems into a qualifications system using load programs, thus avoiding unnecessary manual data entry. Get advice for maintaining data integrity in a qualifications catalog, including tips to identify and overcome common risks, such as losing qualifications requirements due to position changes. Come away with key recommendations and lessons learned, such as why it is important to deploy a qualifications system globally.

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Case study

How MassMutual generates robust, user-friendly SAP E-Recruiting reports and analytics Learn how MassMutual leveraged a mix of standard SAP NetWeaver BW content along with customized infoset queries to achieve user-friendly SAP E-Recruiting reports. Hear how MassMutual ensured data integrity across a complex system landscape. Understand why the company runs SAP E-Recruiting on a dedicated server to meet stringent security and firewall requirements. Get tips to properly install and activate data sources in SAP E-Recruiting. Learn how the company minimized the data modeling and development impact on its IT teams as well as its clients. Step through a demo that illustrates how to build an infoset query and leverage it to create custom SAP NetWeaver BW reports. Collect tips to best assess and meet end-user needs by engaging them in the early stages of the project.

Best practices for creating and leveraging SAP Enterprise Learning reports

Comprehensive instruction to satisfy your HR reporting needs with query tools

Through lecture and detailed demos, this session offers expert guidance on when and how to use each of the various reporting options available with the SAP Enterprise Learning environment. Explore methods that simplify and expedite report development. Learn how to customize user menus by properly leveraging the SAP list viewer tool, and see how this can improve the end-user experience. Receive best practices for creating ad hoc reports that meet unique learning requirements, such as email lists for level 3 evaluation follow-ups. Step through examples that show common custom reporting options, such as “training not taken” reports, and get detailed instructions to create them. Hear how SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) can be leveraged to pull training data from various sources into a single training transcript. Take home uploadable examples of the ad hoc reports demonstrated in the session.

This session offers expert guidance to roll out, administer, and make the best use of query tools in an HR environment. Learn the best ways to define and set up query groups, configure infosets, and use logical databases. Through step-by-step instruction, learn how to use standard query tools for basic and advanced reporting needs and how to integrate them with Microsoft Office applications. Learn to create transaction code shortcuts for reports, automate scheduled jobs that email PDF versions of query reports, and much more. Leave this session with the knowledge you need for training end users to use these query tools, along with tips to reduce end-user reliance on custom ABAP reports or third-party solutions.

Insider discussion forum

How other customers are exploiting opportunities and overcoming challenges with HR and payroll reporting and analytics Come to this special moderated networking session to find out how other SAP customers are dealing with the opportunities and challenges of preparing and delivering HR and payroll reports and analytics. Learn what kinds of reporting challenges other SAP customers face and the innovative measures they are adopting to leverage both SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) to meet their most pressing requirements. Engage in a discussion about the latest set of options now available to SAP customers for reporting, including formatting, printing, Web-enablement, and customization; drill-down analytics; and dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs). Learn how others are leveraging these tools to maximize the effectiveness of their HR reporting strategy.

Create statistics lists using the SAP query tool for a summarized analysis of your HR data Follow these steps to create a statistics list using the SAP query tool. You can use a statistics list to summarize data and create totals and averages.

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HR objects, organizational charts, data, and security Case study

Case study

Lessons from Vistaprint’s strategy to improve HR data accuracy and user productivity

How Merck & Co. gained transparency into its global workforce

Hear Vistaprint share undocumented tips, tricks, and lessons, based on its own experience, to improve HR data integrity, automate cumbersome data entry processes, and increase end-user proficiency. Get a firsthand look at how Vistaprint leverages dynamic actions to seamlessly integrate a life event with a benefits enrollment change. Hear how the company modifies wage types to run in countries where standard country versions do not exist. See how Vistaprint simplified its position management processes by creating a custom mass changes utility that automates supervisor, organizational unit, and cost center assignments. Hear how, through an international end-user support model, the company overcame the challenges of supporting a decentralized HR user base. Take home sample code and configuration steps to implement data validations and process automation, including Vistaprint’s mass changes utility.

This session provides detailed insight into Merck & Co.’s implementation of organizational chart and succession planning functionality delivered with the SAP Talent Visualization application by Nakisa. Gain insight into why Merck & Co. chose this functionality to analyze and identify leadership candidates from more than 56,000 employees globally. See how the company transformed raw data into meaningful business intelligence. Step through a demo that illustrates how Merck & Co. can now gain real-time, enterprise-wide visibility into its talent pool. Explore the company’s approach to aligning talent with business goals, ensuring a powerful leadership strategy for the future and preparing for market changes. Obtain techniques Merck & Co. used to address the volatile economy, an aging workforce, and the global shortage of skills. Hear the company’s plans to manage future mergers and acquisitions.

Step-by-step advice for customizing and streamlining organizational management maintenance Explore the functionality of the standard-delivered hierarchy framework tool from SAP, and learn how to optimize its content and functions to streamline your organizational management (OM) maintenance activities. Walk away with a step-by-step process for customizing the hierarchy framework interface to suit your specific OM data maintenance needs. Learn how to add, adjust, and remove the objects that are maintained in the hierarchy framework functionality by SAP. Find out how to make changes to the screen layout tab pages to include only those OM infotypes you want to appear. Step through project examples to see how your peers have customized the OM interface for specific user populations and walk away with strategies and best practices to apply in your organization.

7 tips to help you optimize your organizational management (OM) processes and structures This session explores the symptoms and causes of the most common organizational management (OM) challenges and provides tips for avoiding them. Learn why it’s advisable to model OM structures after your organizational structure (rather than your cost centers) for reporting, and the problems you’ll avert by doing so. Discover the proper ways to set up and troubleshoot your organizational structure for headcount and reporting hierarchies. Learn how to create a position with four basic links from the organizational structure — position, cost center, job, and organizational unit — and understand why maintaining chief relationships may be necessary for future functionality enhancements. Learn which common OM mistakes adversely impact employee and manager self-service functionality and get tips for avoiding these pitfalls.

Advanced techniques for building a custom suite of organizational management relationships, objects, and evaluation paths Go beyond the basics of SAP functionality for organizational management (OM) and get best practices for creating a custom suite of objects, relationships, and evaluation paths to solve the most complex HR and self-service challenges. Explore common reporting, authorization, and managerial view scenarios that may require custom OM objects. Walk through the steps required to design and configure new objects. See specific examples of how to leverage a custom suite of objects, relationships, and evaluation paths to enhance report output and performance. Find out how to use a custom object suite to solve complex self-service and delegation authorization challenges that cannot be met with standard objects.

Step-by-step instruction for creating organizational charts Learn the best way to configure your organizational structure to produce organizational charts using SAP functionality for organizational management. Get tips for storing the hierarchical relationships among the employees. Step through detailed examples that show you how to configure supervisor relationships and the maintenance strategies that keep them up to date. Obtain best practices for creating an ABAP program to download information that is presented in an organizational chart, including tips to design a detailed selection screen. Assess the pros and cons of various organizational chart options. Get detailed instruction to leverage Microsoft Visio to create customized, real-time organizational charts. Take home ABAP code to assist you in producing the output file.

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Proven techniques to properly configure and optimize personnel administration (PA)

Leverage dynamic actions to streamline HR data entry and improve information flow

Best practices for building and maintaining an HR data and document management strategy

This session offers best practices for the proper design, configuration, and maintenance of personnel administration (PA) functionality. Gather tips for setting up your compensation structure to prevent keying errors. Learn how automating PA processes using standard SAP tools, such as dynamic actions and features, can save time and reduce manual and paper-based tasks. Drill down into organizational structures to learn how proper PA design can drive more efficient HR reporting. Examine the right ways to name and number your actions. Find out how your approach affects how smoothly you are able to merge disparate systems, split systems, and incrementally roll out new systems in the future. Identify key fields to be aware of when modifying infogroups. Get best practices for integrating PA with organizational management (OM) functionality. Gain insight into when it makes sense to keep employees’ PA records separate from the OM structure.

Take a new look at the best ways to leverage dynamic actions to improve data entry accuracy, drive workflow, and streamline infotype and personnel action maintenance in SAP ERP HCM. Come away with an understanding of important dynamic action configuration elements, including action types and plausibility checks. Walk through a demo of HR dynamic actions, and follow a dynamic action from configuration through the actual end result. Receive unique tips to troubleshoot and avoid the most common errors and syntactical mistakes users make in their dynamic action design. Take home a quick reference guide to dynamic action types and a list of tips and tricks to ensure proper dynamic action syntax.

Explore the many benefits of effective HR data document management, including improved system performance, reduced data storage costs, and tighter compliance with regulations and data retention policies. Step through detailed examples to understand how proper data and document management improves HR document control, system availability, data accessibility and integrity, and disaster recovery. Find out how to leverage standard SAP functionality to properly archive HR data and documents and ensure that future retention requirements are met. Learn how to identify data dependencies that must be considered prior to archiving. Explore standard data retrieval options available in your SAP environment, and get tips to select the ones that best fit your needs.

How to get the most out of standard HR security functionality in your SAP system Broaden your HR security knowledge with a comprehensive and up-to-date review of key concepts covering HR table and data access, self-service roles, and user/role assignments. Explore the most effective methods for tracing and troubleshooting HR security problems in your SAP system. Get valuable tips for running critical transactions such as SU53, ST01, and ST05. Discover proven methods for tracing HR transactions when the normal SU53 trace fails to reveal the security problem. Get an overview of security reports that enable you to quickly review which users have access to sensitive HR data. Improve your ability to respond to security audits with a review of key transaction codes and authorization objects. Take home an up-to-date spreadsheet that helps you align HR infotypes to authorization objects.

Unify standard and structural authorization concepts with context-sensitive security To accommodate users whose jobs encompass multiple functional roles, a security administrator typically assigns more than one standard and structural role to those individuals through multiple user IDs. Find out how SAP functionality for context-based security addresses this problem by enabling you to link standard roles with structural profiles. Delve into the technical authorization switches and settings that enable context-based security. Understand how the possible switch values and the different context switches work in combination. Find out how to control access to records for employees without current organizational assignments or who hold integration default positions. Step through examples that show how to configure and test switches and settings. Learn how to consolidate multiple user IDs and transition from your current security setup to a contextbased plan.

Insider discussion forum

Proven methods for securing and protecting your HR environment This no-holds-barred exchange of ideas with experts and peers takes on the toughest challenges of protecting your HR information and preparing for critical security and data privacy requirements. Find out which security and authorization concepts are working well for your peers and where they’re facing challenges. Examine what others are doing to improve their authorization concepts with more efficient and secure structural authorizations, and draw lessons from their successes and setbacks. Network with your peers to determine how security and data privacy should be addressed differently when configuring your system locally versus globally. Take part in the discussion and come away with best practices for meeting your organization’s authorization requirements for SAP ERP HCM.

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Best practices to strengthen identity management through automated user provisioning Allow users to view organizational structures in multiple languages Learn how to set up organizational structures in different languages and still view them in your preferred logon language. Ease your next global implementation with this simple report.

A complete guide to automate user provisioning by integrating SAP BusinessObjects Access Control with SAP ERP HCM Obtain expert advice for leveraging the integration features that exist between SAP BusinessObjects Access Control and SAP ERP HCM to help build efficiencies in your provisioning processes. Walk though three sample business scenarios that demonstrate how to automate manual processes, which can result in fewer errors and an immediate positive impact on your bottom line and ROI. Learn ways to configure the system at the authorization level to identify and monitor information conflicts, as well as standard transaction-based segregation of duties (SoD) conflicts. Acquire best practices to properly configure and leverage SAP BusinessObjects Access Control for your SAP ERP HCM implementation. Walk away with a complete list of the integration features available and the technical specifications for each.

Step through an automated user provisioning method that ensures access compliance and sound identity management across your business processes. Identify data fields within SAP ERP HCM or other HR solutions that can drive the automated user provisioning and deprovisioning process. Learn how to define business roles as a collection of technical roles for automated user management. Find out how and when to incorporate SAP BusinessObjects Access Control to run SoD compliance checks against your business roles, as well as individual user assignments. Collect tips for managing ad hoc access requests to minimize exceptions to the business role framework. Take home a list of sample business roles that are relevant to key business processes, and a sample process flow chart that demonstrates how to create compliant identity management utilizing SAP BusinessObjects Access Control.

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Special Sessions

System globalization Special sessions for teams that are optimizing their SAP ERP HCM functionality to support global requirements

Best practices from IDEXX Laboratories’ global rollout of SAP ERP HCM

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Results of Towers Perrin’s 12th annual survey of HR service delivery and technology: How does your organization measure up?

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Driving HR process efficiency and business value with proven metrics and analytics

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Lessons learned from Microsoft’s innovative global SAP E-Recruiting project

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Proven techniques to optimize your organization’s global compensation management strategy

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Best practices and lessons learned from Coca-Cola Enterprise’s global rollout of SAP functionality for employee and manager self-services

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Strategies and technologies for handling complex global payroll processes

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Lessons for extending SAP ERP HCM functionality for payroll to support global requirements

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How and why Vistaprint implemented a custom interface between its SAP system and ADP payroll software

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How Freescale Semiconductor manages compliance with safety training requirements using SAP functionality for qualifications

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Lessons from Vistaprint’s strategy to improve HR data accuracy and user productivity

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How Merck & Co. gained transparency into its global workforce

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(Insider Discussion Forum) Proven methods for securing and protecting your HR environment

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(HR Experts Live) Allow users to view organizational structures in multiple languages

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Valuable take-home resources and demos As an HR 2010 attendee, you will receive take-home materials containing valuable information — every HR 2010 presentation, expert guidelines, and recommendations that will expedite your HR activities throughout 2010 and into 2011. Take home helpful bonus demos and resources, including: „ A checklist of key factors that accompany a global rollout of enterprise compensation management functionality „ A guide to SAP self-services benefits and requirements „ Guidelines for determining when SAP ERP is better suited for your HR and payroll reporting requirements and when to use SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) „ A list of best practices to properly integrate newly merged or acquired companies into your SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) environment

Session Materials

„ A tutorial with detailed instruction to add previously developed or new custom iViews to a self-services environment „ Custom ABAP code to enable the automatic release of payroll for corrections „ Sample custom rules for calculating taxable tuition and supplemental savings plan wages „ Instructions to fix incorrect quota deductions using program RPTKOK00

„ Demos of the SAP Talent Visualization application by Nakisa functionality from a real-world SAP ERP HCM project

„ A custom program that provides default enrollment for discontinued benefits options

„ A guide to implementing an organizational charting solution

„ An up-to-date spreadsheet that helps you align HR infotypes to SAP authorization objects

„ Guidelines for choosing and leveraging the right SAP performance management template „ A project proposal from a real-world SAP talent management initiative „ Uploadable examples of custom SAP Learning Solution ad hoc reports

„ A quick reference guide to dynamic action types and a list of tips and tricks to ensure proper dynamic action syntax „ Sample code and configuration steps to implement data validations and process automation, including a custom mass changes utility

Who should attend? Join your peers at our networking events and roundtable discussions. Share experiences and discuss the tools and approaches that have (and have not) worked well for your counterparts at other companies.

Executives, vice presidents, directors, and managers: CIO Compensation Corporate HR Services Employee Development Executive Vice President Finance and Payroll General Manager Human Resources Information Systems Principal Principal/Partner Recruitment SAP Development Staffing Training

Information technology (IT) teams: ABAP Programmers Application Specialists Functional Analysts

HRIS HR Systems Managers Integration Specialists IT Applications Managers Project Managers SAP Configuration Specialists SAP Developers Security and Authorizations Solution Architects System Administrators Systems Analysts Technical Analysts

Managers, analysts, and specialists of: Benefits Business Systems Change Management Compensation Compliance Employee Management Systems Employee Resources E-Recruiting

ERP Employee and Manager Self-Service Global HRIS Human Resources HR Processes Organizational Management Payroll Personnel Recruiting Reporting SAP ERP HCM SAP Implementations SAP Services Staffing Talent Management Time Management Training and Development

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Strategies • Best practices • SAP updates • Skills development Full Event

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Jumpstart Day Only

March 15-19

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March 15

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Pay by March 12 (save $100)

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(Conference and Jumpstart Day)

Educational and networking opportunities More than 95 educational sessions and forums Expand your skills and knowledge by learning from the top experts at SAP, independent consultants, and your industry counterparts. HR 2010 offers sessions across six tracks that will show you how to improve process efficiency, strategic influence, and employee satisfaction, and much more.

Orlando, March 15-19

Walt Disney World® Swan and Dolphin 1500 Epcot Resorts Blvd Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830 +1-800-227-1500

Solutions and technologies covered in this conference include: BSI TaxFactory solution Cross-application timesheet

Jumpstart Day

HR support packages

Special three-hour, pre-conference sessions hosted on Monday, March 15, offer you the opportunity to explore new trends and strategies, fortify your understanding of critical SAP technologies and solutions, and enhance your learning experience at the main conference.

SAP Legacy Systems Migration Workbench

Ask-the-Experts

Object and data provider framework

Sit down one-on-one with the leading experts to ask questions and get detailed, authoritative answers. Build on what you learn in the breakout sessions, and get insights you can apply at your own organization.

Payroll journal

Case studies

SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM)

Take away best practices and methodologies taught by the companies that practice them. Learn from highly experienced SAP customers to solidify your own strategies and tactics.

Insider discussion forums Hear about your peers’ projects, challenges, and ongoing initiatives. Benefit from the insights of a moderator who is a topic expert and who will also facilitate discussion. Share “war” stories, “how-to” information, and techniques you’ve learned based on your own experiences.

Evening receptions Interact with the best and the brightest minds working with SAP software. The people you meet here share the same challenges — they are peers you will stay in touch with and look to for guidance well after the conference is over.

POWER lists SAP BusinessObjects™ solutions

SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse SAP NetWeaver Portal SAP functionality for query reporting SAP Talent Visualization by Nakisa Tax update bulletins Time evaluation schema Wage type reporter

Attendees of HR 2010 can attend sessions at Financials 2010 and GRC 2010

Web Dynpro for ABAP™

Three conferences are hosted in Orlando, March 16-19: HR 2010, Financials 2010, and GRC 2010. Attendees of one conference can attend any sessions of interest at the other two conferences at no additional cost.

Web Dynpro for Java

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