Rising Challenges in Personnel Management
Digitalization, globalization or even changing the expectations of employees, are all confronting companies with rising challenges in personnel management. The most important aspects are:
1A future-oriented
HR strategy
2Finding and
developing talents
3Increasing employer
attractiveness on the market
4Enhancing the value
contribution of HR
Successful companies embed the digital transformation centrally in their business strategy and personnel management. Human resource management counts on innovative and future-proof solutions, to find, bind, and motivate employees and to create a company culture.
How Does SAP SuccessFactors Assist Your Company?
SAP SuccessFactors is the comprehensive, cloud-based solutions suite, with which to bring your human resource management on to the path to success. Exploit your potential to the fullest by simplifying your personnel processes. The suite provides comprehensive core process functions with solutions for recruiting, applicant management, onboarding, learning management system (LMS), talent management, succession planning, as well as tools for social and commercial collaboration. The solutions have a modular design and can be combined with each other to suit company needs.
With SAP SuccessFactors, solutions for HR managers and managing directors can map employee strategies, measure results, and clearly communicate the impact on the company. You receive:
- Extensive analytic functions to assist the decision making regarding your workforce and business strategy
- Simplified valuation and communication concerning HR processes and operating results
- Greater company transparency and higher employee retention
- Increased agility and quicker decision making
- Facilitation of administrative tasks by best practice scenarios with pre-defined content, automation, and self-services
The SuccessFactors suite with all its capabilities is not only aimed at companies within the enterprise-class, but also finds application scenarios in small and mid-sized companies.
Which Modules Does SAP SuccessFactors Contain?
Personnel Administration
Employee Central – Core Processes in Personnel Management
The SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central solution is a flexible and reliable HR-System to manage the entire workforce worldwide. Essentially, the module assists with organizational management and controlling of personnel processes. With the core module you manage and oversee all important personnel master data, time recording and absences, as well as the position management in the company. On request all employee profiles can be managed by the employees themselves. All of the important functions are also available mobile device use.
Employee Central Payroll - Payroll accounting
The SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll solution provides the tools for the calculation of gross-net-payroll on the grounds of company and/or union rules, and statutory requirements. This includes the determination of gross remuneration and the calculation of company-specific, employee-related, and statutory deductions. Employee Central Payroll supports salary and financial systems in 41 countries.
Employee Central Service Center – Omnichannel Customer Service for Employees
The SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Service Center solution is the cloud solution that provides your employees with an omnichannel customer service. The solution assists with prioritizing the most important problems and sending tickets to the correct team members. Create complete transparency of your service activities with analytics, dashboards, and reportings.
Talent Management
Recruiting – Finding the Right Candidates
With the SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting module for talent management, you will optimize the recruiting for vacant positions within in the company. Besides the publication on own presences and the simple handle on your career pages, interfaces to job fairs, social media, and universities are provided. With the help of analysis functions you can identify the best sources for fitting talents, as well as reduce the recruitment and manager time with powerful self-service-tools. Keep fundamental information for internal company and HR processes at the ready with integrated, template-based, and customizable reportings.
Onboarding – Quick Productivity in Case of New Hire or Change of Position
With SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding you will accelerate the productivity of new hires and internal transfers by connecting them with the right persons and content from day one.
Simplify onboarding, cross boarding, and offboarding processes with tools for workflow automatization, including records administration.
Learning – More Productive Employees through Precise Developments
SAP SuccessFactors Learning enables the supply and management of cloud-based learning solutions, which provide a clear and personalized path towards advanced qualifications and management. With the Learning-Management-System (LMS) you will constantly improve the skill of your employees, reduce compliance risk, and incorporate external groups with learning objectives more effectively.
Performance & Goals – Keeping Top-Performers with Fair Evaluation
To create a committed and efficient workforce, use SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals solutions to focus on the performances and goals of your employees. A library of over 500 pre-defined “smart” goals will help you define your own. Create acceptance for performance evaluation through the possibility of self-evaluation, as well as peer-reviews and identify top performing employees through a comprehensive and objective performance overview.
Compensation – Performance-Oriented Rewards and Remunerations
The SAP SuccessFactors Compensation solution assists global individual payment regulations for base remuneration, as well as short-term and long-term incentives. Perfectly clear performance bonuses and the possibility for transparency with a complete overview of salaries will help you to eliminate prejudices and ensure internal justification through own calibration. Thanks to intelligent modeling you will also improve budget utilization and business orientation.
Succession & Development - Company Agility through Succession and Development Planning
With SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development you create suitable workforce planning to fill critical positions quickly by preparing goal-oriented development plans that will contribute to efficient successors. Boost the career growth and the personal development opportunities with intelligent proposals and innovative mentoring programs. Use the possibility of objective, transparent, and exact valuations through a visual comparative matrix for employee potential, measuring individual performance, as well as performance within a team.
Analysis and Planning
Workforce Analytics – Backed Decisions by Modern Analytic Functions
The SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics solutions assists decision making through pre-defined HR metrics and benchmarks, as well as analysis options, which are supported by high performing functions like machine learning and artificial intelligence. Use the capacity to follow and foresee trends, feeding knowledge from human resource management into company-wide decisions. Simplify your analysis through automated data collection from various sources, lucid dashboards, and reporting.
Learning Analytics – Evaluate the Success of the Training
The SAP SuccessFactors Learning Analytics solution offers a method for creating insights in your training and development investments. To achieve such insight, use the pre-defined learning criteria and analysis options relating to extent, type, and effectiveness of the offered trainings. SAP SuccessFactors Learning is a prerequisite.
Workforce Planning - Close Staffing Gaps Successfully
Meet operational and strategical business requirements, by finding and closing current and predicted staffing gaps with SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning. Evaluate the financial impact of deployment planning scenarios by modelling the composition and costs of the workforce. Additionally, a best practice strategy collection assists you with the planning.
Social Collaboration
SAP Jam – Social Platform
The social software platform SAP Jam offers social collaboration wherever you work. To resolve business-critical problems and achieve results, SAP Jam connects you with information, applications, and processes – either through mobile or web application. With that, you create a culture of learning and exchange, enhancing the on-boarding experience by providing themed and course specific communities with access to expertise.
Reasons for SAP SuccessFactors
Planned Spending
With the subscription-based exploitation model in the cloud, costs can be specifically viewed. You have no preliminary costs, no upgrade or third-party license cost, and no maintenance cost for IT. You pay an annual subscription on a user basis, one that conforms to your requirements. In case you are not satisfied, or your requirements change, we will simply adjust your subscription.
Available Mobile Use
The mobile-first-approach is an important part of the SuccessFactors license. The mobile access to personnel processes even outside of the company boosts social networking and collaboration, which therefore increases efficiency. Through that, all employees are given the possibility to use personnel processes everywhere at any time. The mobile application of SuccessFactors offers a wide variety of functions in the areas of recruitment, task management, performance management, and target management.
Orientation towards goals
SAP SuccessFactors combines different objectives and offers the possibility to communicate transparently in the company. In doing so, objectives from the human resource management can be matched with individual employee goals and applied to strategic business goals. SAP SuccessFactors thereby supports service providers in achieving a positive business development.
Enables Quicker Decision Making
SAP SuccessFactors collects data from different sources and consolidates these in one interface. Backed by best practice scenarios and artificial intelligence, valid predictions can be created and risks detected early on.
Rising Staffing Requirements
With the growth of employees new challenges and requirements await every company. Individual possibilities for development find themselves more in the focus. In addition, young employees are used to a digital environment and expect to find it in the company. Diversity and internationalization require new and targeted approaches in employee management. SAP SuccessFactors assists you with these challenges and is continually looking to develop further.
Expertise from the Market Leader
Even before the purchase by SAP, SuccessFactors pioneered with its cloud-based Talent Management Suite. Since the fusion with SAP, SuccessFactors has developed to an even more well-engineered product. Today SAP SuccessFactors is recognized by industry analysts as the leading provider for human resource management software. Thousands of customers worldwide already trust the HR solution by SAP SuccessFactors.
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