Whitaker-Taylor Insights

With the SAP SuccessFactors Q1 2017 Release around the corner, companies can expect to enhance customer experience, bridge functionality gaps and broaden their base with new, exciting features.

Compensation pros face many challenges, some of which can make or break an organization. Among them are alignment to business goals, managing risks, and employee communications.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a new version of the Employment Eligibility Verification Form (I-9). Employers we authorized to use the existing form until January 21, 2017. Effective January 22, 2017, employers must use the new version of Form I-9.

When you maintain employee master data in SAP, you may encounter an error that reads Pre-booking exists for personnel number. We will show you how to solve this problem in a few minutes, even if it involves a large number of records. We will also show you how to prevent it from happening again.

New hire turnover is expensive. The costs of recruiting, administrative processing, and training seem insignificant when a new employee gets up to speed quickly and provides years of service. However, when new hires leave before producing anything of value, you never recover the loss.

For most employees, scheduling is simple. What happens during work time is so routine or so fluid there is no need to define it in detail. Many small businesses manage schedules by scribbling names on a wall calendar.

If you are a SuccessFactors Administrator, you can now view data about system performance and system usage. The user experience has an impact on how users view the tasks in your talent management applications and will affect user adoption. It pays to keep a close eye on how well your SuccessFactors applications are serving your users

Many data operations once the exclusive domain of IT experts have become tools for ordinary business users. One such operation is extracting data from SuccessFactors to send to other systems.

Many firms are still using the SAP Human Capital Management (HCM) on-premises platform, especially for core HR functionality. They have a stable platform that meets their needs, and it is easy to integrate with newer cloud talent management applications.

For almost all businesses, their biggest expense is employees, and most of that expense is salary, wages, and incentives. It makes sense to use the right tools to manage that expense.