Harmonize Foundation Objects Establishing a Smooth Globally On-Premise to Cloud Before implementing Employee Central, there are organizational steps that can be taken Data Migration to ensure an easier project. Harmonizing As we touched on above, data migration is organizational structures, pay structures, and something you should always have at the top job structures company-wide are helpful from of your mind. In moving from SAP ERP HCM an employee data perspective—these are the on-premise to SuccessFactors Employee foundational objects of the system. Central, there are likely to be con昀椀gurations Organizational structures are most and data that you’d want to carry over from important—they need to be aligned from one system to another. The good news is a business unit perspective. Job structures that with the Employee Central subscription, are also a good thing to have harmonized, SAP offers a tool that helps with that data it will make it easier down the road from a transition called Infoporter. recruitment perspective. Pay structures are Infoporter offers an easier migration path nice to globalize, but we often see customers from SAP ERP HCM to Employee Central that have necessary differences across through pre-built integrations that can locations. be enabled via con昀椀guration without development effort. This helps expedite Create Standard Approvals your data migration and replication process. and Work昀氀ows Take employee data replications, for example. When migrating, you will replicate With approvals and work昀氀ows, it is best to approach them with the 90 percent rule. an employee from Employee Central, and in doing so the ERP may generate a That means the global template for approvals will take your implementation 90 percent of new personnel number, even though that employee already exists. The issue then the way there, leaving the 昀椀nal 10 percent becomes that the employee’s master data is for local speci昀椀cs. The same can be done for many HR processes and transactions. then replicated to the new personnel number. With Infoporter, this issue will be resolved Build Strong Central Governance because it ensures that existing personnel numbers are reused during replication It is vital that the governance of the global because employee key mapping tables are project itself is very tight, no matter where updated throughout the migration. the implementation is occurring. All key Any good SAP ERP HCM to Employee Central stakeholders need to be aligned with the migration will use Infoporter. Make sure that idea of a global template and you need to your project team and partners are aware have a strong process in place to protect of it, because it will save plenty of time and the global template. ease the challenge of data migration. For example, it is a good idea to have a design decision team that reviews all design decisions to ensure that requirements coming from different countries are met with the global template in mind as much as possible. Effective governance will tie all the other work together in harmonizing a global implementation. Utilizing all these steps will create a more ef昀椀cient rollout for your global organization. / 18 © 2020 Rizing LLC or a Rizing LLC af昀椀liate company. All rights reserved.