SAP’s excellent human resources functionality can often be overlooked. But for HR managers looking to add strategic value – and minimise their admin workload – it can be a prime driver of enterprise performance.

Human Capital Management (HCM) has never been more important. Whether the economy is booming or slowing, every company faces critical questions about its workforce and how its skills are exploited. Organisations need to deploy their human resources (HR) experts to areas of the business where they can add most value – and away from time-consuming admin tasks.

For companies running SAP, the need to integrate HR is even more pressing. Running admin functions such as payroll, performance and reward management through the central system not only delivers the comprehensive view of the business that management needs, it also allows HR to roll out new functionality at marginal cost.

Best of all, for SAP customers, rolling out sophisticated and integrated HCM functionality need not involve the kind of major transition that would be required for a third-party HR application. With the support of Bluefin’s expert business and technology consultants, you can reap significant gains without the hassle.

At Bluefin, we believe every business and every HR team can benefit from our expertise in linking SAP’s HCM functionality with existing finance and logistics set-ups. Whether it’s delivering lower admin costs for traditional HR tasks, helping the transition to a full SAP solution or transforming HR into a strategic function, our track record of delivering ambitious, complex and demanding projects across most industries proves we’re a safe, dependable and dedicated partner.

What SAP HR can do for your business

The most compelling reason for turning on your SAP HR functionality is that it’s relatively straightforward. Bluefin can help you configure and develop the applications that will plug directly into your SAP database, delivering efficiencies from day one.

Many of our customers are simply looking to update HR procedures that haven’t been touched for years, often because they’re based on old technology that’s seen as reliable – despite the obvious drawbacks of manual processing and the benefits that integration can bring.

But some clients take the opportunity to go much further, evolving their HR function and their employee relationships in the process. For companies looking hard at their human resources requirements and how they are changing, this kind of strategic capability is fast becoming essential

Even addressing seemingly mundane HR processes can make a huge difference:

• Payroll and time management – we worked with Wolters Kluwer to solve some highly complex payroll and time recording needs. Even companies with very straightforward payroll set-ups can see immediate benefits from tighter integration with their core SAP implementation.
• Employee self-service portals – at United Utilities, we helped establish end-user systems that have radically reduced HR’s admin overhead and opened the door to range of additional services for staff.
• Management self-service portals – talent management is a crucial factor for most modern businesses. Giving line managers transparency in key areas like absences, training, rewards and benefits allows them to focus on managing people, not paperwork.
• Employee benefits – non-salaried remuneration provides companies with creative, and often cheaper, solutions to overall rewards. SAP HCM can take the pain out of flexible benefits and allow HR teams to design the right solution for their needs.
• Perfomance management – a critical application when productivity has become so critical. Whether its monitoring training, managing the appraisals process or delivering the perfect rewards package, only an integrated HCM system can really deliver a holistic view of talent.
• Travel management – using employee and manager portals, SAP’s HCM systems can automate much of the tedious work in monitoring, managing and minimising travel costs.
  

The Bluefin offering

The Bluefin HCM team offers more than just technical consulting services. We understand both the strategic opportunities and short-term pressures faced by HR departments. Our aim is to deliver solutions that can help you manage these demands, ensuring you realise clear benefits from your implementation.
Above all, we aim to make it easy for HR leaders and their teams to adapt to SAP technology by focusing on business drivers and usability, not just technology.

Contact Bluefin’s HCM specialists on +44 (0)870 233 0404
Find our more about HCM at SAP’s web site: http://snipurl.com/sap_hcm
Learn more from an SAP HR community: http://saphruser.com/