Wieland-Werke AG SUCCESS STORY OF A CUSTOMER PROJECT
For many years, Wieland-Werke AG from Ulm has been using the SAP HCM optimization by FIS including the FIS/hrd CCC and FIS/hrd SRA components. The applications are used for anonymized copying and conversion of personnel data, e.g. to transfer current data from the production environment to a test system in an anonymized way. Furthermore, schemas and rules are developed for SAP HCM in an audit-compliant manner. Versioning makes it possible to reproduce changes to the payroll schema at any time and has essential advantages in case of release upgrades or when support packages are imported.
INDUSTRY
Metalworking industry
ENTERPRISE
9,000 employees
Location: Ulm
TARGET
Optimization for SAP HCM
TECHNOLOGY
FIS/hrd
CHALLENGES
- Volatileness of schemas and rules in the SAP standard version and missing traceability in case of changes
- Cumbersome, manual documentation of changes to schemas and rules
- Anonymized transfer of test data from the production environment to a test system
- Adjustments due to statutory or pay-scale provisions as well as due to complex company remuneration arrangements
- Target: implementation of an SAP HCM optimization enabling anonymized copying and conversion of personnel data and audit-compliant development of schemas and rules
SOLUTION AND CUSTOMER BENEFITS
- Traceability of interventions in the schema and rule set of the SAP HCM system
- Precise comparison of payroll data and logics possible by using data of the previous month or previous versions
- Possibility of versioning ensures audit compliance and simplifies release upgrades and the import of support packages for instance
- Documentation of adjustments incl. note function
- Provision of anonymized data for copying and conversion
- Increased user-friendliness due to working in the FIS/hrd user interface
Wieland-Werke AG
The Wieland Group based in Ulm is one of the leading international manufacturers of semifinished products and special products made of copper and copper alloys. Special products are, for instance, sliding components, ribbed tubes and heat exchangers. As an international company, Wieland has manufacturing companies, slitting centers and trading companies in many European countries as well as in the USA, South Africa, Singapore, China and India. The Wieland Group supplies customers in numerous markets: more than 100 different copper materials are particularly used in electronics and electrical engineering, building and automotive industry, machine and apparatus construction as well as refrigeration and A/C industry.
Versioning of schemes and rules in SAP HCM ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE SAP STANDARD WITH FIS/hrd
The development of schemas and rules in the SAP HCM environment is an essential task for the HR department of Wieland-Werke AG. For this purpose, the team uses the convenient FIS/hrd SRA user interface (Schema and Rule Analyzer). The versioning of previous payroll schemas plays a key role in this development. The SAP HCM payroll consists of a payroll schema with different subschemas and corresponding rules.
The volatileness of schemas and rules in the SAP standard version is challenging: if you change a schema line or calculation rule, the existing one will be overwritten; the same applies to the attributes of a wage type. The SAP standard means hardly recognize these changes and if at all, they are not really transparent and hardly traceable. The FIS/hrd Schema and Rule Analyzer enables the audit-compliant development of schemas and rules in SAP HCM. The versioning of the previous payroll in FIS/hrd enables an accurate comparison between old and new payroll logic. According to Siegfried Singer (IBF application organization in the IT team of Wieland-Werke AG), no other tool compares to FIS/hrd when it comes to such a comparison.
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