White Papers

Symphony regularly attends events where we will present a topic which is of interest to the SAP Human Resources market. After the conference, Symphony will post those presentations on our website for clients to download and utilize for informational purposes. If you don’t see a presentation here which is of interest to us, please let us know.

Current Whitepapers

Regulatory Compliance
This presentation was given by Kellie Fitzpatrick HR Conference.

Explore the most important SAP reports needed for regulatory compliance and gain an understanding of what's required to run them. Learn how to avoid the most common pitfalls related to system configuration and data entry and maintenance that can cause incorrect results in your reports. Review how and when to use - and where to find - the standard reports available to support Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), Occupational Safety and Healthy Administration (OSHA), and Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) compliance. Get the best practices for how to maximize regulatory compliance report performance and accuracy, including step-by-step guidelines for how best to maintain and select data to produce the results you want. Know your options for non-standard reporting, including valuable tipes for how to use SAP Query to run reports or group output by EIN.

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Config. & Admin. Payroll Claim
Examine what causes payroll claims, how SAP Payroll creates them,and the three main ways to clear them.
Gain an understanding of when and how to use the Payroll
Reconciliation Report to read current results and the SAP Claims Report to gather information about the claim.
Learn how to configure wage types to support claims forgiveness, repayment, and deduction recovery
Understand how to configure payroll processing class 59 in order to properly clear claims for employees with garnishments.
Gain an understanding of claims crossing years and the implication of the claim-of-right regulation.

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Why HCM for your Organization
This session will provide an overview of SAP HCM and the reasons an organization may want to implement the functionality. This session will also outline the integration between HCM, implementation plans, accelerators available within standard SAP and considerations of what to implement first, second and third. We will delve into the various HCM sub-modules and how to attack a particular area as it relates to business processes, common issues and corporate objectives. The overview will go through high-level each of the individual HCM Modules and the functionality offered by SAP for an organization. The audience will understand the functionality and how to further evaluate if and when they would like to implement SAP HCM.

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7 Tips for Org. Management
Setting up an Organizational Structure can often be confusing and time consuming for a new implementation or for ongoing maintenance. Many clients believe or have been guided to mimic their Financial structure because of time and understanding. However, this presentation will focus on why HR utilizes an Organizational Structure and the purpose of a complete and accurate structure for the integration into other modules and sub-modules within SAP. We will talk about how to set up a multi-tiered structure and how to allocate positions to that structure. This presentation will talk about the common pitfalls of creating and not accurately maintaining an organizational structure over the course of time and how to rectify and utilize this structure to the fullest potential of the system.

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SAP HCM for Global Languages
This session will provide global clients who are looking to implement HCM some tips on how to configure their system in multiple languages. Attendees will learn how to set up their organizational structure so that each country can view the structure in their native language. A critical part of any system is to be able to use the data once it is entered and maintained. This presentation will show the user how to set up their queries to view multiple languages and make the data accessible and usable to the organization in the language of choice.

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Tips and Tricks for Appraisals
Valuable tIps and tricks regarding utilizing Objective Setting and Appraisal functionality for both LSO and Personnel Development will be covered. The session includes detailed step-by-step configuration tips and tricks to make appraisal templates work for your organization. The attendee will learn how to make use of anonymous appraisals, weighted appraisals, and time-sensitive appraisals.

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How LSO assists FDA Compliance
If your organization has experienced an FDA audit of training records or you see an audit in your future, SAP's Learning Solution can be the answer you are seeking to make the experience as painless as possible. If your organization is faced with needing a validated learning system, join us to discover more on how to conquer this challenge faced by FDA regulated organizations

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Dynamic Actions
Cut through the complexity of dynamic actions, a set of configuration steps that can improve data entry accuracy, drive workflow, and streamline infotype and personnel action maintenance in SAP HR. See examples of their most common uses in SAP HR. Come away with an understanding of the dynamic action configuration elements you need to know, including action types and plausibility checks. Walk through a demo of HR dynamic actions, and follow a dynamic action from configuration to the actual end result in SAP.

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Where to find Benefits Reports
This presentation was given by Kellie Fitzpatrick at the HR2007 conference.

Get an overview of the standard benefits reports SAP delivers to manage and monitor costs, contributions, and overhead calculations. Learn where to find the most effective standard reports for health plans, flexible spending accounts (FSA's), insurance plans, 401(k), and the Health Insurance Portability Act (HIPPA). Get proven tips for how to optimize benefits reporting selection criteria, performance and results. Know your options for benefits reporting in SAP that go beyond the standard reports, and come away with advice on how and when to create adhoc queries that address specific benefits reporting needs that standard ABAP reports do not cover. Increase the usefulness of your benefits queries and reduce your risk of providing coverage to ineligible dependents with instructions for creating a query that captures dependent data, including eligibility status and Medicare flags. Explore how date specifications, such as retirement data and benefit eligibility dates, can add tremendous value to your reports. Improve your ability to navigate and manipulate benefits report data with best practices for exporting report data to Excel.

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Testimonials

Symphony implemented SAP HCM Mini-Master along with Travel & Expenses for Houston Independent School District on time and under budget. We successfully went live and were able to implement Travel & Expenses and the HR Mini-Master. Symphony worked with HISD to implement a solution which best fit our need. Great Job!!

James Rodriguez
HISD

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