Manager Self-Service 1.51

Technical name: com.sap.pct.erp.mss.manager_self_service

Tasks

Managers with personnel responsibility have the task of leading a team in keeping with the company's goals and of providing the employees in their area of responsibility with optimal support to promote their performance. As part of their cost center responsibility, managers monitor and manage their budgets. Managers with personnel and cost center responsibilities also perform the appropriate planning tasks. As project leads, managers are responsible for project management. Reporting gives managers a detailed overview of all the activities in their area of responsibility.

The tasks of managers include activities in the following areas:

  • Employee information, for example:

    • Accessing general information such as contact details or personal data

    • Monitoring compensation information

    • Contributing to the personnel development of their employees, for example:

      • Setting objectives

      • Performing employee reviews

      • Checking target achievement

      • Monitoring qualifications and training activities of employees

  • Talent Management, for example:

    • Performing talent assessments

    • Creating appraisals for employees

    • Entering team goals

    • Performing compensation planning

    • Checking and approving compensation planning

  • Competency Management, for example:

    • Changing position details

  • Personnel Administration, for example:

    • Starting processes for one or more employees, such as the transfer to another department

    • Starting processes for the object types job, position, or organizational unit

  • Enterprise Compensation Management

    • Monitoring employees’ salary development and comparing this with general salary development in the enterprise

    • Displaying employees’ long-term incentives

    • Checking employees’ eligibility for compensation plans

    • Planning compensation

    • Adjusting compensation

    • If necessary, approving the compensation planning of other managers

  • Working time, for example:

    • Monitoring employees’ attendances and absences

    • Approving leave requests and the working times employees have entered in the time sheet

  • Travel Management, for example:

    • Approving trips and expenses

    • Setting up a substitute for the approval process and being a substitute

  • Recruitment, for example:

    • Creating requisitions

    • Appraising candidates

    • Tracking the status of requisitions and candidate appraisals

  • Controlling for cost centers, profit center, orders, and equipment, for example:

    • Checking critical variances and postings

    • Checking costs and the assignment of equipment to employees

  • Project management, for example:

    • Creating and searching for projects in SAP cProjects

    • Monitoring plan and budget consumption for projects and orders

    • Requesting external services and confirming the request

    • Tracking the status of external services

    • Billing for external services

  • Planning, for example:

    • Processing planning activities from Express Planning

    • Monitoring budget consumption for cost elements, activity types, and statistical key figures

    • Tracking the status of internal service requests

    • Planning headcount and transferring the plan to Accounting

    • Displaying elements from the balanced scorecard and entering appraisals and comments for them

    • Personnel Cost Planning

  • Reporting, for example:

    • Monitoring key figures

    • Displaying business intelligence reports and reports from Manager’s Desktop

Integration

For the Business Package for Manager Self-Service (SAP ERP) 1.51 , users require the Manager Self-Service 1.51 role and the ERP Common role. For more information, see Assigning Portal Roles to Users .

For information about which SAP ERP business processes integrate the Manager Self-Service role, see SAP Note 824757 .