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Chapter 6
Human Capital Management organizational unit is expanded to show the individual
employees in that unit.

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Organizational
structure and
employees

Functions in
task area

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FIGURE 6-5 SAP’s Manager’s Desktop provides a single point of access to human resources
functions

Human resources data includes employees’ personal information, so controlling
access to that data is critical. An advantage of an integrated information system over a
paper-based system is that controlling access to data is automated; managers can use the
system to determine which users should have access to various data.

ADVANCED SAP ERP HUMAN RESOURCES FEATURES

Discussing in detail the many SAP Human Resources processes is beyond the scope of this
text; however, some of the advanced features of the Human Resources module, including
time management, payroll processing, travel management, and training and development
coordination are presented in the following sections.

Time Management
Hourly employees, who are paid for each hour worked, must record the hours they work
so they can be paid. Salaried employees are not paid based on the number of hours
worked, but typically their time must still be tracked. For cost-accounting purposes, it is
often important to be able to attribute an employee’s time to a cost object—such as a cost
center (which may be a department or division), project, or production order—and any
time not worked must be attributed to vacation or leave. The SAP Human Resources

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