Does your Human Resource (HR) Department have the ability to:-

• View employees as people with skills, competencies, work experiences, dislikes, and preferences?
• React proactively to evolving situations?
• Have a timely insight into trends, events and opportunities?
• Align itself with the corporate strategy?

In today's competitive business environment, making the right decisions at the right time is crucial. Successful companies are able to spot trends and opportunities faster than their competitors allowing them to proactively deal with situations rather than just reacting to them. Managing and transforming the HR function from just a service provider allows the business to determine the human capital drivers for success and respond to them.

SAP provides the tools, content, and access channels to make Human Capital Management (HCM) data available for use in making sound business decisions.

The Solution - HCM Business Intelligence (HCM-BI)

SAP ECC6-HCM gives your HR Directors, Executives and Line Managers access to up to date information regarding your employees. HCM-BI enables reporting and analysis allowing them to spot trends, make informed decisions, predict demand and track costs.

SAP Business Intelligence delivers unmatched HCM content out of the box:

• Over 200 predefined HCM queries (allowing multi-dimensional views and drill-downs)
• Over 300 HCM key figures (e.g. time series comparisons)
• 100 templates for standard calculations
• 29 HCM-specific information cubes
• 7 HR BI Web Cockpits

Standard Extractors, InfoCubes and Queries available for:

• Personnel Administration e.g. Headcount, Personnel Structure, Headcount FTE, Average Headcount, Leaving Rate, Entry Rate, Average Age of Employees, Average Length of Service
• Recruitment e.g. Number of Applications/Applicants, Advertisement Costs, Hires/Offers/Rejected Contracts
• Organisational Management e.g. Position Overview, Occupied/Vacant/Unoccupied Positions, Positions FTE, Percentage Distribution of Vacant Positions, Number of Positions with Chief Function, Number of Temporary Positions
• Payroll Accounting e.g. Annual Wage Types Overview, Wage Types Comparison for Personnel Areas
• Time Management e.g. Overview of Employee Times, Illness Rate, Leave Rate, Overtime Rate, Employee Times and Debited Cost Centres _ Queries on Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS)
• Personnel Development e.g. Qualifications per Employee, Proficiency of Qualifications, Employees by Qualification Group
• Training and Events Management e.g. Number of Attendances and Cancellations, Business Event Duration, Business Event Fees, Costs, Resource Reservation, Resource Costs
• SAP Learning Solution e.g. queries for evaluating the learning processes and web based trainings, Number of Achieved Learning Objectives, evaluation of test results
• Objectives Setting and Appraisals e.g. queries on Appraisals, queries to monitor the performance feedback process
• Personnel Cost Planning e.g. Cost Comparisons between different cost plans, Plan/Actual Comparisons, Planned Costs per Organizational Unit/Position/Employee
• Compensation Management e.g. Compensation Analysis, Average Annual Salary, Average Bonus Payment, Salary Divisions of Employees in Pay Grades, Planned Adjustments to Annual Salaries, Long-Term Incentives, Comparison of Market Data and Employee Payment
• Benefits e.g. Cost Analysis According to Organizational Criteria, Cost Analysis According to Benefits Criteria
• Travel Management e.g. Overview of Travel Expenses, Number of Trips, Travel Expense Receipts, Overview of Travel Planning, Flight-, Hotel-, Car Rental Bookings

Data from external systems or non HR components of SAP can be incorporated into SAP Business Intelligence to allow the creation of reports delivering a single point of up to date, accurate information across the entire business.

Business Users can access this data via a variety of channels:

• Portal - Self Service and Professional Roles
• Analytic Dashboards
• Duet Software
• Mobile Devices
• SAP Business Intelligence