Table Of ContentSAP HCM – A Complete
Tutorial
Deploy and implement the diverse functionalities of
SAP HCM
Ganesh Karthik S
professional expertise distilled
P U B L I S H I N G
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SAP HCM – A Complete Tutorial
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Disclaimer
The author would like to advice consultants, end users, and aspirants to do a
scrupulous testing of the configuration/customization in the Development client
before moving the objects to the Production system. The author will not be held
accountable for any damage caused by using or misusing the information, code, or
methods suggested in this book, and anyone using them does so at his/her own risk.
The evolution of the book is from the author's own interests and book publisher's
trust in the author's abilities and not necessarily from the interests of his current and
former employers.
About the Author
Ganesh Karthik S, who prefers to be called Karthik, is a senior SAP HCM
functional consultant with Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH), based in Chennai, India. He
holds a Master's degree in Human Resource Management from Monash University
(Go8 universities), Melbourne, Australia (2005-2006). In December 2010, he earned a
certification in SAP Certified Application Associate - Human Capital Management
with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP4. He has close to 120 man months of progressive IT experience,
which includes working on SAP and Oracle ERP products. He has been associated
with multiple end-to-end implementation projects, along with projects on rollouts,
upgradation, and production support. He is also determined to share his experiences
with SAP aspirants and consultants in the form of a book. He is passionate about
SAP and takes joy in sharing knowledge with others. He is an avid blogger and
frequently writes on his blog (http://saperphcm.blogspot.in/). He loves sports,
and his favorite movie is The Pursuit of Happiness (2006). This book, SAP HCM – A
Complete Tutorial, is his first attempt at an endeavor of this kind, and he would like
to wholeheartedly thank the entire team at Packt Publishing for this opportunity.
He likes to network and can be contacted via his Skype ID, Dreambeckons or via his
Google Talk ID, sapenjooy.
Acknowledgments
At the very outset, I am thankful to my parents, sister, athimber (ak), nieces
(Ananya and Mridini), Sarayu maami, Jayaram mama, Babu mama, Saraswati
manni, chittappas, grandpa (ICF) for all their support and wishes. Special thanks
to my grandpa and grandma (chrompet), who aren't with me now physically,
for their blessings. I would also like to thank my friends Raja, Madhan, Venki,
Rajesh, Matheen, Jean, Bean, Anbu (Ramesh), Yogi, Chaks, Machan R, and Mahesh
(Alwarpet) for their encouragement. I would like to thank some of my mates in the
SAP sphere: Sivabalan, Eswar (Income Tax), Thomas, Arun Vajrakantham, Dinakar,
Gopalraj, Arathi, Sankaraman Subramaniam, Santhosh Somasekaran, Rajesh Burra,
Kamlesh, Lokesh Sharma, Lokesh, Shankar, Thaneesh, Bala, Guna, Singh, Kamba,
Gyan, Prasanna, Charmi, Papri, Suneeta, Eswar (ISU), Kishore, Raju, Govind Rao,
Laxmi Rao, Ashok (ABAP), Ganesh (FI), Radhey Shyam, Saravanagopal, and Vijay
NR for their continuous support. It's a big list and I apologize if I have inadvertently
missed mentioning any of you. I am indebted to the entire team of Packt Publishing
for this opportunity and a special mention to Rahul Nair, Mohammad Rizvi, and
Shaon Basu for entrusting me with the responsibility, and the technical reviewers,
Alexey Tveritinov, Eric Wildenstein, Vladimir Mikhaylenko, and Gordon Du, for
their invaluable suggestions and inputs.
About the Reviewers
Gordon Du has been working in the Information Technology sector for over
30 years now. He is passionate about helping others whenever he can. Being the
top contributor in the SAP Community Network since 2008, he has helped thousands
of users to utilize ERP package more efficiently and solve their problems. He has
broad knowledge in all aspects of ERP, especially for SAP.
Gordon has worked and trained in Canada, China, Singapore, and the USA.
In China, he was the first person to successfully implement an international ERP
software package in a domestic company. He is the author of Mastering SQL Queries
for SAP Business One, Packt Publishing.
Vladimir Mikhaylenko is a SAP developer with more than five years of
development experience in various SAP modules including, but not limited to,
Financials, Material Management, Sales, and Distribution. At present, Vladimir
works with SAP Globalization Services in the Russian Federation, and participates
in development projects for the localization of SAP Human Capital Management for
CIS and Ukraine.
Eric Wildenstein is a SAP techno-functional independent consultant, and has been
working on ERP implementations for blue chip companies in Western Europe and
Northern Africa regions since 1997. He mainly specializes in ABAP object-oriented
programming, NetWeaver XI/PI/AIF, and SAP Business Workflow, providing
technical expertise across the core business modules of SAP. Prior to becoming
self-employed in 2000, he worked as an in-house programmer analyst for
PricewaterhouseCoopers, UK, and Andersen Consulting, France, on both
SAP R/3 and C/S architectures.
Eric has already reviewed several SAP books, including the very informative
SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook, Rehan Zaidi, Packt Publishing.
I would like to thank my dear Laurence for her patience and
understanding. While I have been away from home working on
various projects for the past 19 years, she is still very supportive,
although I, myself, sometimes don't have much time to share
with her.
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