HCM, Performance Management 02

Technical Data
Technical Name of Business Function	`HCM_OSA_CI_2`
Type of Business Function	Enterprise Business Function
Available as of	SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0
Technical Usage	Human Capital Management
Application Component	Performance Management (Objective Setting and Appraisals) (`PA-PD-PM`)
Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition	HCM, Performance Management 01 (`HCM_OSA_CI_1`)

This business function offers you additional innovations to optimize and structure appraisal processes in your enterprise more efficiently. The business function has the following advantages:

Administrators can use the enhanced user guide to better manage the appraisal template in the relevant SAP Web application.

The enhanced and improved SAP Web application is available to administrators to set up the predefined Performance Management process. For example, you can do the following:
- User different templates for the Performance Management process in the same appraisal period
- Enter texts for the Performance Management Process based on role (Manager or Employee) and hide or show selected phases of the process.
- Better manager the Performance Management process

Integration

Prerequisites

You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:

Type of Component	Component	Only Required for the Following Functions
Software Component	`EA-HRGXX 605`
SAP NetWeaver	SAP NetWeaver – Adobe Document Services 7.01
SAP NetWeaver	SAP NetWeaver – Internet Graphics Service 7.01
External product	Adobe® Flash® Player 9
Portal Content	Business Package for Talent Management Specialist 1.51	Creation and Cascading of Corporate Goals and Core Values
Portal Content	Business Package for Manager Self-Service 1.51	Creation and Cascading of Team Goals Predefined Performance Management Process
Portal Content	Business Package for Employee Self-Service (WDA) 1.50	Predefined Performance Management Process

You use the Objective Setting and Appraisals application component in your back-end system.

In Customizing for Objective Setting and Appraisals, you have made all necessary settings.

Features

SAP Web Application for a Predefined Performance Management Process

Administrators can make the following settings in Customizing:

Enhancements for the appraisal template in the Performance Management process
An enhanced and improved user guide is available in the relevant SAP Web application to set up the appraisal template before the start of the process. This includes:
- Hide or show review phase
  Before the start of the process, administrators can decide whether they want a review phase to be available to managers and employees during the process.
- Hide or show meeting scheduling in the planning phase or review phase
  Before the start of the process, administrators can decide whether they want a manager to have the option of scheduling a meeting with an employee before the start of the planning phase or review phase.
- The application for creating appraisal templates has also been enhanced with the following functions:
  - You can copy appraisal templates.
  - You can delete appraisal templates on which no appraisal documents are based.
Enhancements for the configuration of the Performance Management process
A user-friendly SAP Web application is available for setting up the process. For example, administrators can do the following:
- Use different templates in an appraisal period (example: one year) for the predefined Performance Management process. The process and its appraisal template may look different depending on the process requirements. This allows you to make multiple processes available, each with an appraisal template.
  
  Example
  Template for process 1: Year-End Appraisal for Sales 2009 and template for process 2: Year-End Appraisal for Production 2009
  
  End of the example.
- Enter required texts for the process (such as the title or description) for both managers and employees based on role and make the texts available for the process in additional languages. They can also hide or show selected phases of the process.
- Use the Performance Management process from the previous year as a template and copy it as the Performance Management process for the following year.