Manager Self-Service 1.41

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. In the context of their cost center responsibility, managers monitor and manage their budgets. Managers with personnel and cost center responsibilities also have to perform the appropriate planning tasks. As a project lead, managers are responsible for project management. Reporting enables managers to get 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

  • Competency Management , for example:

    • Determining position requirements

  • Personnel Administration , for example:

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

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

  • Compensation Management , for example:

    • Monitoring employees’ salary development and comparing it with general salary development in the company

    • Displaying employees’ long-term incentives

    • Checking employees’ eligibility for compensation plans

    • Planning compensation

    • Adjusting compensation

    • And 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 compensation and, if necessary, approving compensation planning of other managers

    • Planning headcount and transferring plan to Accounting

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

  • Reporting , for example:

    • Monitoring key figures

    • Displaying business intelligence reports and reports from Manager’s Desktop, for example

Integration

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

  • For information about the SAP ERP business processes in which the Manager Self-Service role is integrated, see SAP Note 824757.