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SAP Time and Attendance
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Project Planning and Governance
Invest Up Front and Be Realistic: Establish realistic timelines, standards, and expectations while considering outside factors that will stretch your resources.
Transparency Is Key: Ensure that every person on the team is aware and on board with the level of preparation, communication, and planning required for a successful implementation.
Define Entries and Exits: For each project phase, define the criteria for completion and designate a point person for approval.
Start Where You Are: Understand your organization’s current systems and data storage methods. Involve the third-party vendors that will be integrated with your workforce management.
Staffing and Key Roles
Set It Apart: Workforce management is not a module of core HR or payroll—it requires its own dedicated stream and leaders.
Create a Winning Lineup: Take the time, focus, and resources to choose a dedicated team. No one knows your business as your people do—their knowledge and experience will be integral to good decision-making.
Deliberately Delegate: A clearly defined RACI matrix is key to instilling confidence in your team to carry out their responsibilities and make decisions.
Bridge Theory and Reality: Bring representatives into the core team from all business functions that will use the workforce management systems daily.
Requirements Gathering
Engage the Experts: Enlist HR and payroll solution owners during requirements gathering to offer insight on data flow and break down silos in your digital transformation.
Define Success: This can include criteria like the level of automation, change in workflows, flexibility, etc. Plus, the ability to test any element of the solution with a clear pass/failure is a requirement.
Consider the Everyday Users: Gather requirements from the people who will use the systems every day to improve downstream adoption and change management.
Follow the Data: In addition to descriptions of requirements, gather examples of input/output calculations for the solution. This will help capture all impacts on upstream/downstream in your test plan.
Stakeholder Strategies
Communicate, communicate, communicate: Connect early and throughout the implementation with all stakeholders.
Engage Often: Plan for regular check-ins and status updates. Doing the work to keep stakeholders involved is critical to aligning all parts of the organization.
Customize Your Message: Consider your audience and refine your messaging with engaging, relevant points. Empower everyone from executives to personnel in the field to advocate for the project.
Best Practices
Think Globally and Act Locally: Align all global stakeholders on project aspects such as policies, integrations, requirements, processes, access rights, and workflows. This standardization will reduce project risk by minimizing regional variations and exceptions.
Focus on the ROI: Use the ROI as your North Star. Question if the requirement will detract from the ROI, reduce automation, etc. If the answer is yes, don’t do it.
Aim to Maintain: Remember, go-live is not the system’s final state. Focus on processes and rules that won’t complicate ongoing maintenance.
Change and Risk Management
Anticipate Change: Establish a straightforward change management process that includes tracking and documenting all changes.
Specify Functionality: Define clear expectations for what the solution can and cannot perform to avoid mistaking a lack of functionality for an error.
Training vs. Change Management: Training is how to use the product. Change management is when to use policies, workflows, labor distributions, etc. Instruct your team on both.
Testing
Train Your Testers: To distinguish between errors and lack of user knowledge, train testers on how to use the solutions on a business-rules and product level.
Use Clean Data: Clean data is critical. Reset your data before testing functionality every time.
Engage Front-line Managers: Enlist those ideally involved in project scoping for user acceptance testing.
Test Strategy and Pay Comparison: A rigorous strategy and pay comparison testing process is vital to ensuring changes made to the system have the desired impact and do not disrupt other processes or rules.
Don’t Test for the 100-Year Storm: Base your testing plan and dataset on real-world scenarios that are typical in your organization. Don’t overcomplicate your UAT by trying to break the solution with use cases you will never see.
Rollout and After Go-Live
Protect Your Investment: Plan for userbase support post-rollout. Train your team at the admin level, create internal support processes, and build a support team.
Plan for Support: Establish 30-/60-/90-day reviews to assess small tweaks and adjustments.
WorkForce Software has been an SAP global partner offering solution extensions since 2015. Together, we have more than 300 customers who are leveraging WorkForce Software solution extensions for SAP HR and payroll software to manage and optimize the performance of their global employee teams.
SAP Time and Attendance Management by WorkForce Software provides you with the ability to decrease payroll errors and overtime costs, reduce administrative effort, comply with local laws, and improve employee engagement.
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Deloitte is on a mission to inspire and help organizations thrive. Together, WorkForce Software and Deloitte help organizations transform their operations and employee experience with SAP Time & Attendance Management by WorkForce Software.
Since 2013, EPI-USE and WorkForce Software have partnered together on more than 50 successful projects. Together, our experience in solving workforce management challenges spans over three decades.
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WorkForce Software and SAP have had a global solution extension partnership since 2015, working with over 280+ clients deploying both SAP and the WorkForce Suite. We have co-developed integrations and have a deep understanding of how the two solutions complement each other within large global organizations.
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