... Foreword ... 25

... Introduction ... 27

... Business Drivers for HR in the Cloud ... 29

... SAP SuccessFactors Strategy and Roadmap ... 30

... Licensing and Release Cycle ... 31

... Summary ... 34

... Part I: Foundations ... 35

1 ... Employee Central Basics ... 37

1.1 ... Globalization and Localization ... 38

1.2 ... Data Models ... 40

1.3 ... Admin Center ... 44

1.4 ... Employee Central Settings ... 44

1.5 ... Foundation Objects ... 45

1.6 ... Person, Worker, and Users ... 49

1.7 ... Employee Interface, Information, and Maintenance ... 50

1.8 ... Transactions and Self-Services ... 53

1.9 ... Event, Event Reasons, and Workflows ... 53

1.10 ... Extensibility ... 54

1.11 ... Business Configuration UI ... 55

1.12 ... HRIS Sync ... 57

1.13 ... Reporting ... 57

1.14 ... Deployment Models for SAP Customers ... 58

1.15 ... Summary ... 61

2 ... Implementation Steps and Considerations ... 63

2.1 ... Implementation Considerations ... 63

2.2 ... Setting Up Employee Central ... 74

2.3 ... Post-Implementation and Ongoing Administration ... 81

2.4 ... Implementation Resources ... 83

2.5 ... Summary ... 87

3 ... Role-Based Permissions ... 89

3.1 ... Overview ... 89

3.2 ... Scenarios for Creating Roles ... 93

3.3 ... Creating Groups and Roles ... 94

3.4 ... Permissions ... 100

3.5 ... Summary ... 115

4 ... Events and Workflows ... 117

4.1 ... Employee Status ... 117

4.2 ... Events and Event Reasons ... 120

4.3 ... Workflows ... 133

4.4 ... Summary ... 177

5 ... Extensibility ... 179

5.1 ... Metadata Framework (MDF) ... 180

5.2 ... Extension Center ... 182

5.3 ... Using Extension Center ... 187

5.4 ... Creating Extensions in Extension Center ... 190

5.5 ... Maintaining Extension Data ... 214

5.6 ... SAP Cloud Platform ... 216

5.7 ... Summary ... 219

6 ... Business Rules ... 221

6.1 ... How Business Rules Work ... 222

6.2 ... Creating a Business Rule ... 236

6.3 ... Offcycle Event Batches ... 243

6.4 ... Business Rule Execution Log ... 246

6.5 ... Summary ... 248

7 ... Foundation Objects ... 249

7.1 ... Basics ... 249

7.2 ... Categories ... 253

7.3 ... Associations and Propagation ... 259

7.4 ... Configuration ... 262

7.5 ... Creating Foundation Object Data ... 270

7.6 ... Extending Foundation Objects ... 277

7.7 ... Summary ... 278

8 ... Data Imports and Data Migration ... 279

8.1 ... Importing Data ... 280

8.2 ... Exporting Data ... 317

8.3 ... Mass Deleting Generic Object Data via Import ... 320

8.4 ... Permissioning Imports and Exports ... 320

8.5 ... Data Migration from SAP ERP HCM ... 324

8.6 ... Summary ... 330

... Part II: Features and Functionality ... 331

9 ... Position Management ... 333

9.1 ... Implicit Position Management ... 334

9.2 ... Positions Overview ... 335

9.3 ... Setting Up Position Management ... 344

9.4 ... Position Management in Other SAP SuccessFactors Applications ... 352

9.5 ... Company Structure Overview ... 355

9.6 ... Summary ... 358

10 ... Employee Data ... 359

10.1 ... Views ... 360

10.2 ... History and Audit Trail ... 382

10.3 ... Self-Services ... 386

10.4 ... Transactions ... 391

10.5 ... Configuration ... 396

10.6 ... Summary ... 402

11 ... Payments ... 403

11.1 ... Compensation Information ... 403

11.2 ... Pay Scale Structure ... 404

11.3 ... Location-Based Payments ... 406

11.4 ... Advances ... 406

11.5 ... Deductions ... 418

11.6 ... Summary ... 425

12 ... Time Management ... 427

12.1 ... Time Management Overview ... 427

12.2 ... Payroll Time Sheet ... 433

12.3 ... Time Off ... 440

12.4 ... Summary ... 456

13 ... Benefits ... 457

13.1 ... Global Benefits ... 457

13.2 ... Configuration ... 459

13.3 ... Using Global Benefits ... 461

13.4 ... Country-Specific Benefits ... 464

13.5 ... US-Specific Benefits .