SAP and other folks "Best Practices"

[Edward Diehl]

Hi Ron,
What transaction will you use for you BDC function?  I can tell you that PA40 will not work because of "dynamic actions" within the transaction.  We are needing a way to update the action infotypes and hope that we will find BAPIs that will do this.
 
Another question, you mention that the services team is involved in updating the SAP system.  I thought the Interactive Forms would "post" automatically.  Is this not the case?  What advantage is the interactive forms solution if it does not do this?
 
We are currently reviewing Interactive Forms for our PA actions workflow.  It sounds like you are thinking about getting away from this mechanism.  Would you mind sharing the reasons for this?  If you don't use Interactive Forms, what will you use?
 
Best wishes,
Ed Diehl
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


From: radkins1 at surewest.netTo: sap-wug at mit.eduSubject: SAP and other folks "Best Practices"Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:23:19 -0800




Hello Everyone,
 
It has fallen to my team to "Sanity Check" a request from Management to automate some of our workflow processes in the HR Instance.
Currently, many of our processes have an ADOBE form that is completed for various personnel actions by a manager in MSS.  These are
routed via workflow to a "One Up" manager for approval and then on to a services team who sort and process these from the various workflow 
Inboxes.  The new process would remove the services team and populate the data directly into the system by loading the personnel data along with the 
Changes into the BDC table and then calling the function module to update the SAP Employee data directly in R/3.
 
Some of the processes include:
 
Salary Changes
 
Job Code Changes
 
Location Changes
 
Title and Position Changes
 
Is anyone else going this far with MSS / ESS automations?  It has been suggested that SAP does not recommend that Salary and some personnel changes be 
Automated and updated without a review layer in between.  Anyone seen any white papers or recommendations stating this?  We are a bit weary of the data integrity
issues associated with this request and I am very interested in what you folks think.
 
Thank you for your time,
 
Ron Adkins
Sr. SAP Analyst
Nortel 
 
 
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