Introduction Running a small or medium-sized business comes with its own set of unique challenges. From managing a growing workforce to handling payroll, recruitment, and employee development, these tasks can quickly become overwhelming. Without the right tools, HR processes can consume valuable time and resources—time better spent on core business activities. This is where SAP […]
SAP SuccessFactors
SAP SuccessFactors provides organisations with the ability to align their human resources to have the right people, to do the right things, in the right way at the right time to meet organisations objectives.
Discovery Consulting is an Australian leader in the delivery of SAP SuccessFactors cloud based Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions and customised Apps and extensions.
The SAP SuccessFactors cloud suite offers a number of modules to streamline an organisation's human resources processes into a single application that is accessible from desktop and mobile devices within the workforce.
These modules are:
Employee Central & Payroll
Centrally manage core HR and Payroll across the entire organisation with the flexibility, scalability, security and ease of the cloud.
Employee Central and Payroll provides a single source across Organisational Management, People and Transactions (ESS and MSS), HR Shared Services and Payroll.
The SAP SuccessFactors payroll application can help improve efficiency by as much as 30% through automating the payroll process and overall HR technology costs can also be reduced by delegating recurring and routine upgrades to cloud vendors.
Employee Central will increase productivity by providing visibility into teams and team structure, allowing you to easily adjust structures in line with business needs, trigger new hire requisitions or send data to SAP Fieldglass solutions to source external workers.
Employee Central and Payroll manages organisational data providing people with access to the information they need and connecting the right people with the right positions within the company.
Onboarding
Lay the foundation for employee success and ensure your staff enjoy an excellent employee experience upon joining your organisation with SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding.
This is an easy to use, automated and personalised onboarding process that will increase organisational productivity across the board by streamlining paperwork and simplifying the onboarding process, allowing staff to quickly and easily connect to the colleagues and resources they need.
SAP SuccessFactors onboarding can also impact turnover by connecting new employees with their teams and help them to engage better across the organisation.
Recruiting
Being able to proactively attract and hire the best talent is a critical and influential stage of the HR process.
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting helps organisations to source the best talent, helping to positively influence business performance outcomes, reduce HR cost per employee and increase HR FTE productivity.
SuccessFactors Recruiting provides a full recruitment process that includes Recruitment Marketing and Management to streamline the hiring process and secure the best talent on the market, resulting in a lower cost to hire, reduced time to hire and improved employee engagement.
Learning
Reduce service and support costs and effectively train internal and external audiences to achieve your business goals.
SAP SuccessFactors Learning Management Solution enables effective development of talent, ensuring your employees have access to tools that will help them continuously develop, learn and accelerate their career.
This solution can reduce compliance risk by leveraging automated assignment profiles to ensure compliance training is completed and enables learning communities that provide a platform for expert discussions.
SAP SuccessFactors Learning Marketplace allows you to deliver training to your extended business ecosystem including pre-onboarding learning and the training of external learners.
Succession & Development
Proactively plan succession and carefully develop career plans of your workforce with SAP SuccessFactors Succession and Career Development.
This tool enables organisations to fill critical positions quickly by creating targeted development plans that help ensure capable ‘ready-now’ successors, increasing the speed and quality of succession planning.
Foster career growth and personal development opportunities through innovative mentoring programs for employees and automate recommendations for potential ‘good fit’ careers.
Succession and Career Development will positively impact employee engagement by empowering employees to explore career aspirations and readiness with suggested roles and development opportunities.
Performance & Goals
Ignite better performance, ensure strategy and goal alignment and retain key talent to drive improved business results.
SAP SuccessFactors Performance and Goals helps you engage with your employees more efficiently and will help increase employee productivity and engagement.
It will facilitate two-way communication and feedback, and help to ensure goals and performance reviews are closely aligned with the company objectives.
Performance and Goals will provide employees with continuous feedback and coaching to help motivate them to always perform at their best and give them the information they need to stay engaged and succeed.
EHS
Employee Health & Safety (EH&S) for SAP SuccessFactors provides organisations with the ability to provide an integrated safety system to manage proactively their Environmental, Health and Safety obligations.
Mobile-enabled for access by the entire workforce, real-time reporting, workflow and notifications, EH&S for SAP SuccessFactors supports organisations compliance with regulations and standards.
Performance and Goals will provide employees with continuous feedback and coaching to help motivate them to always perform at their best and give them the information they need to stay engaged and succeed.
Time Management
Utilise SAP SuccessFactors to automate the entire workforce time and attendance processes. Employees and Managers are provided visibility of their data and team members information, such as the ability to view team leave and approve leave requests.
Greater access for employees is achieved through access using mobile applications, whilst managers can obtain up to date information to assist with planning.
Workforce Analytics
Workforce Analytics, a primary module as part of the Human Analytics of SAP SuccessFactors, improves and accelerate workforce decisions, processes, and results with digital solutions
This powerful analytical platform transforms data into high-end dashboards and reports with predefined metrics and benchmarks, together with powerful capabilities such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. Benefits include:
Reduce turnover by understanding trends related to turnover, movement, and workforce risks;
Reduce time to hire by gaining insight into workforce trends and areas of improvement;
Reduce HR cost per employee by providing managers with the data they need to make better, more informed decisions about the workforce and business;
Increase HR FTE productivity by reducing the amount of time spent on HR reporting.
Workforce Planning
Use SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning to identify workforce shortfalls and fill the roles to support the organisations strategic and operational plans.
Workforce Planning assists to help headcount planning by understanding operational and strategic human resource gaps, being able to model workforce scenarios. The benefits include:
Reduce bad hires by providing clear, early insight into headcount plans and job requirements;
Reduce time to hire by identifying workforce strategies that can expedite and improve the talent supply to support organisational objectives;
Reduce turnover by building talent according to short-, mid-, and long-term business strategies.
Position-Management
Ineffective position management can impact business productivity causing reporting problems, inefficient recruiting processes, and increased data maintenance needs.
A decentralised position management solution will reduce HR workload and empower managers.
SuccessFactors Position Management will simplify the process for maintaining the organisational structure by allowing managers to create and maintain positions in SAP SuccessFactors.
This application makes it easy for managers to create positions, copy existing positions and maintain positions within their own structure.
It also provides workflow to HR/Shared Services for approval and discretionary HR updates.
People Central Hub
Providing a central system for people data, that feeds SAP SuccessFactors applications and surrounding SAP systems with workforce data without a full Employee Central implementation. When running other systems, such as S/4HANA (cloud and on-premise), provides a read-only data hub, that can be maintained through web-based integration or simple SCV file imports.
The People Central Hub can be used for all workforce members, including contingent workers and these can be imported using SAP Fieldglass, which comes with native integration.
Compensation
Supporting global governance obligations can prove a challenge for many organisations, especially when efficiency gains are also required.
SAP SuccessFactors Compensation Management provides a tool to attract and retain talent, optimise department budgets, and reduce significant risk to all organisations with strategic compensation management, and the ability to handle local pay needs or country-specific requirements.
Compensation Management will help facilitate the acknowledgement of employees for their great work and rewarding outstanding performance when it occurs, impacting employee engagement.
Intelligent compensation modelling, more accurate budgets, and better business alignment will also support improved HR FTE productivity.