... 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 . sakriti opis