HR Personnel Planning and Development Using SAP: How to get the most from your SAP HR systems

This compelling new reference book gives you a comprehensive view of the most important personnel planning and development functionality within SAP. Whether you need to implement, customize, or optimize your HR systems, the real-world insights this book provides will help you master the concepts essential for effective personnel planning and development. This book will help you leverage the many HR options and processes supported by SAP and gives you practical examples and key metrics to help you measure your success.

You'll instantly benefit from in-depth explanations of critical concepts such as organization management and defining roles. Plus, you'll uncover the full potential of new solutions such as E-Learning and SEM. An ideal companion for HR teams, project leaders, and consultants, this book is based on extensive practical experience with R/3 Release 4.6C. It also covers new enhancements that are available with R/3 Enterprise and SAP Enterprise Portal.

Highlights include:

• Leveraging Employee Self-Service (ESS)
• Understanding roles
• Getting the most from SAP Business Workflow
• Techniques for Salary Management
• Maximizing integration with SAP BW, SEM, and others
• How to enhance queries
• New R/3 Enterprise and Portals innovations
• Guidance on E-Learning and Learning Management Systems
• Best Practices, exclusive tips, critical success factors, and much more!

Christian Krämer has been working as department manager HR & Payroll Solutions for Media-Saturn IT Services GmbH (www.media-saturn.com) since mid-2008. Before this, he spent ten years working as a senior consultant, servicing customers in the field of SAP ERP HCM with a focus on E-Recruiting, Personnel Recruitment, Personnel Development, and Time Management. He has also carried out extensive projects on processoriented design for the implementation of SAP ERP HCM and gained experience in e-learning projects. Until mid-2008, he was a senior consultant at iProCon GmbH and a member of the AdManus management committee.

Christian Lübke is managing director of iProCon GmbH, which offers services complementary to SAP ERP HCM. He was previously manager at IDS Scheer AG in the personnel center and has over a decade of experience in national and international HR Projects.

Sven Ringling has worked as a consultant with organizations in 8 countries and various industries on improving their Human Capital. In SAP ERP HCM his focus recently was on performance management, quality assurance (QA), and international rollouts. He co-founded iProCon GmbH in Germany in 2000 and was a managing director until 2008, when he co-founded iProCon HCM Ltd. in the UK. He is now Senior Partner and heads the people strategy practice. His latest projects comprise HR-IT strategy, rightsourcing, change management, and innovation culture.