Sap (HR And HCM) Hard Questions

Sap (HR And HCM) Hard Questions

• 1. What are the different type of Wage Types? What are the characteristics of wages?
  Types of wage types
  1) Primary wage type
  2) Secondary/Technical wage type
  3)Customer specific wage type
  Wage type characteristics:
  1) Amount
  2) Number
  3)Rate
  
• 2. What is time management status ?
  Time Management status is the link between time management and payroll .The feature for  time management status is  TMSTA.
  Time Management status  field is available in infotype 0007 .
  Values for the Time Management status are
        0 - No time evaluation
        1 - Time evaluation of actual times
        2 - PDC time evaluation
        7 - Time evaluation without payroll integration
        8 - External services
        9 - Time evaluation of planned times
  
• 3. Structures in SAP Human Resources/HCM ?
  There are three types of Human Resource structure
  1.Enterprise Structure
  2.Personnel Structure
  3.Organizational Structure
  
• 4. Integration between Personnel Administration & OM ?
  Integration between PA and OM  is required to get default for job,position,org unit cost center etc in IT0001. Position is the integration between OM & PA.
  Configuration Step:
  IMG--> PA--> OM--> Basic settings --> integration-->set up integration with PA
  Table for OM - PA integration is T77S0
  In the above table set the integration switch PLOGI ORGA to X
  If this is set to "X" - the integration is turned "on"
  If this is a blank  - the integration is turned "off".
  
• 5. Reports in PA & OM Integration/Integration tools ?
  1.RHINTE00 - To transfer data from PA to OM
  2.RHINTE10 - To transfer OM data to PA tables
  3.RHINTE20  - To determine whether the data relevant for integration is available in both PA and OM
  4.RHINTE30 -To update IT0001 (org assignment)
  
• 6. Integration between Personnel Administration & PD(Personnel Planning and Development) ?
  Integration between PA and PD is set by turn on switch the  PLOGI ORGA with an X  in T77S0 table.
  Report RHINTE10 set up  PA & PD integration . This program allows you to create object types in Personnel Administration which have already set up in Personnel Planning and Development.
  
• 7. Integration between Personnel Administration & Time Management ?
  Infotype 0007 (Planned working time) is the integration between PA & Time Management. For PA & Time integration we need to maintain Infotype 0007.
  This integration is also based on PA and PSA grouping and EG and ESG grouping.
  
• 8. Integration between Personnel Administration & Payroll ?
  Integration between PA & Payroll through below info types.
  

  • Recurring Payments/Deductions (0014)
  • Additional Payments (0015)
  • Cost Distribution (0027)
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• 9. Integration between Personnel Administration & Recruitment ?
  Integration between Personnel Administration & Recruitment can set up using the following two features
  Benefits
  

  1. Transfer employee data to the applicant database(feature PRELR)
  2. Transfer applicant data to the employee database((feature PAPLI and feature PRELI)
  3.  
• 10. What are plan versions used for ?
  Plan versions are  used in OM to create  scenarios in which you can create organizational plans. The current plan version should be "01", as set in PLOGI PLOGI.
  2. What are the basic object types?
  The five basic building block object types in OM are SPOCK.
  

  • S - Position
  • P - Person
  • O - Organization Unit
  • C - Job
  • K - Cost Centre
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• 11. What is the difference between a job and a position ?
  Job is not concrete, it is is generic.(Eg: Manager, Assistant Manager,Consultant).
  Positions are related to persons .Position is concrete and specific which are occupied by Persons. (Eg: Manager –Finance , Consultant – SAP HR).
  
• 12. What are the different methods to customize Organizational structure of an organization ?
  hree methods  to customize Organizational structure of an organization. 
  1.Simple Maintenance 
  SAP Easy Access -> SAP Menu -> Organizational Management-> Expert Mode -> Simple      Maintenance -> PPOC_OLD C reate
  2.Expert Mode  / Detailed Maintenance
  3. Organization and Staffing
  SAP Easy Access > SAP Menu > Organizational Management> Organizational Plan >
  Organization   and staffing > PPOCE
  
• 13. Which infotype maintain relationships between objects ?
  Infotype 1001 defines the relationships between different OM objects.
  
• 14. What is an evaluation path ?
  An evaluation path describes a chain of relationships that exists between individual organizational objects in the organizational plan.
  You can maintain evaluation paths on img -> Personnel Management ->Organisation Management-> Basic Settings-> Maintain Evaluation Paths .
  
• 15. Integration between Organizational Management and Recruitment ?
  This integration allows to manage company vacancies & positions.
  Integration to Recruitment is switched through table T775S0
  PLOGI PLOGI 01
  PLOGI PRELI   99999999
  PPVAC             PPVAC      1
  
• 16. Integration between Recruitment and Personnel Development

  This integration manage qualifications in recruitment
  The integration to Personnel Administration is switched in T775S0 table
  PLOGI         QUALI          1 A032 Q
  

• 17. What are the various objects in an organizational plan ?
  1. Tasks
  2. Job
  3. Position
  4. Organizational unit
  5. Cost Center etc
  
• 18. How does any company use an organizational plan ?
  The company organization structure and reporting structure is represented through the organization plan. The active plan version is the current plan version and the other plan versions are considered as various planning stages.Used for manpower planning. Normally plan version"01" is always made the active plan version.
  
• 19. How do you integrate OM and PA? If integration is active what happens when a position is entered in IT 0000.? What else does the system default? Can these values be changed? What is this called ?
  Integration of OM and PA is possible through the integration switch setting in table T770S which is PLOGI ORGA 1. If the integration is active and the position is entered in IT0000 during a hiring action , than in IT0001 the following are automatically defaulted
  Percentage
  Job Key
  Org. Unit.
  These values are greyed out and cannot be changed. This is called account assignment.
  
• 20. Are cost center assignments hierarchical? Where do you assign these in OM ?
  Cost center assignments are hierarchical. You assign these in the account assignment for OM objects. If your org unit in the lower hierarchy does not have a cost center assignment , than it will be assigned the cost center of the upper hierarchical org unit till one is found. For a position, if the cost center is not assigned, it will be assigned the cost center of the org unit to which the position belongs and if not found here, than it will be assigned the cost centre of the upper hierarchical org unit till one is found. These assignments can be overridden by the cost distribution (IT 0027).
  
• 21. What are attributes of objects? Is vacancy a common attribute for all objects ?
  Attributes of an object are the properties of the object by which it is described. The OM objects have some common attributes like Description, Relationship, Account Assignment , Work Schedule etc and some unique attributes like Vacancy assignment which is only for the OM object position.
  
• 22. What are the other additional organizational assignments ?
  The other additional organizational assignments are assigning the employee to administrators in org assignment infotype 0001.
  
• 23. Name the three administrators? How do you default these in IT0001 ?
  The three administrators are
  1.Personnel Administrator
  2.Payroll Administrator
  3.Time Administrator
  
• 24. What is organizational key? How many characters does it constitute? How can it be defined? What is it mainly used for ?
  An Organization key is a 14 character code that could be formed by the combination of parts/whole of certain field values in the org assignment infotype (0001) eg employee group, subgroup, personnel area, sub area, org unit etc. It is used for authorizations.
  
• 25. What are employee attributes and how are they classified ?
  The employee attributes are all the information pertaining to that employee. They are typically classified according to the HR structures to which the employee belongs such as organization structure, pay structure, and are stored in form of well defined and related information called infotypes.