How to Define Personnel Subareas

Configure Personnel Subareas SAP R/3 IMG Path : – SPRO > IMG > Enterprise Structure > Definition > Human Resources Management > Personnel Subareas Double click on “Personnel Subareas” and select “Create personnel Subareas” and click on choose In next screen enter your personal area and enter Click on “New Entries” […]

Assignment of Personnel Area to Company Code

The following training tutorial guides you how to Assign Personnel Area to Company Code. After defining Personnel Area, next step is  Assigning the Personnel Area to Company Code. SAP R/3 IMG Path : – SPRO  > IMG > Enterprise Structure > Assignment > Human Resources Management > Assign Personnel Area to Company Code Double […]

How to create Personnel Areas in SAP

The following training tutorials guides you how to define Personnel Areas in SAP HR step by step. SAP R/3 IMG Path : –  SPRO  >> Enterprise Structure >> Definition >>  Human Resources Management >>  Personnel Areas You can create new personal areas by copying existed personal area or creating by selecting […]

Organizational Management

This article about organizational management is meant to be a launchpad to our discussion on structural authorizations– an unique and indispensable part of HR security. We ave already have had a brief idea on Org Mgmt or OM when talking about the PLOG authorization object. Lets take the discussion forward to the […]

HR Basics

SAP HR deals with private employee data much of which might be of sensitive nature. As a result the HR security is typically more stringent that security for the other SAP modules. In a lot of non HR applications, security is more geared towards prevention of wrongful entry of data […]

Authorization Switches

In our article on SU24, we saw the feasibility of selectively switching off checks for certain authorization objects. However, HR objects (objects for authorization class HR) can not be marked as “Do not check”. Howver, there is another option for selectively switching off checks for HR objects. This is done […]

SAP HCM Infotypes

Infotypes or Information Types always form an integral component of any discussion on SAP HCM. In general infotypes are structures to stores related HR data. For example, address of an employee is stored in an unique infotype 0006. Similarly we have different infotypes storing personal data (0002), bank details (0009) , basic salary (0008), […]

Types of HR Data

A discussion of SAP security for a particular application area, like HR, FICO, SD, MM generally starts with an outline of the applications/transactions for the particular area and the authorization objects needed to secure them. This is fully justified as most of the time, security administrators are given a list […]

Securing PA Data

We have already come across PA (Personnel Admin) master data in our initial discussion of different types of the HR data. Out of the box, SAP provides three main authorization objects for securing PA master data, P_ORGIN, P_ORGXX and P_PERNR. Lets see how we can use each one of these in […]

Securing PD Data

Personnel Development (PD) Data is part of the Personnel Planning (PP) Data model used in SAP HCM. The PP Data model is made up distinct HR object types like positions (S), Persons (P), Jobs (C), Tasks (K), etc. The main use of this data is in Personnel Development (PD), Organizational Management (OM) and the Training […]