LIFECYCLE CAPABILITIES
Shape, secure, activate, manage, fulfil and close
These capabilities follow the employee lifecycle from workforce demand through the employment relationship.
Shape the workforce.
Define where work is needed and establish the organisational, position, capacity, and authority framework.
Open topicSECURE THE WORKFORCESecure the workforce.
Find, assess and commit the right person to the approved need. A requisition describes the role, approvals, hiring team, and candidate criteria. Applications, interviews, assessments, offers, and compliance records form the selection trail.
Open topicACTIVATE THE EMPLOYEEActivate the employee.
Establish identity, employment, assignment, access and readiness to work. Personal, job, bank, tax, benefit, equipment, and policy data are collected with appropriate access.
Open topicMANAGE THE EMPLOYMENTManage the employment.
Grow, move and maintain the employee through the changing needs of work and career. This active-employment lifecycle includes performance, skills, learning, promotion, transfer, compensation change, time, absence, and career movement.
Open topicFULFIL AND CLOSEFulfil and close the employment relationship.
Meet recurring pay and employment obligations, then complete final settlement and controlled separation when employment ends. Approved time and recurring pay feed payroll calculation, statutory deductions, payment, posting to Finance, and employee statements.
Open topicDATA AND CHANGE CONTROL
Understand the employee record before changing it
These topics explain the objects, extensible data, and effective-dated rules that determine an employee state.
How is an employee record put together?
Connect person identity, employment, effective-dated history, organisation, position, platform user, and payroll identifiers.
Open anatomyDATA MODELWhat is an MDF Object in SAP SuccessFactors?
See how fields, associations, effective dates, rules, permissions, UI, and API form a controlled data model.
Open deep diveDETERMINEWhat determines an employee change?
Trace business event, effective date, event reason, rules, workflow, permissions, synchronization, and downstream evidence.
Open determination guideRUN AND CONNECT H2R
Control work, integrations, and access boundaries
These topics help HR administrators and HR systems managers understand who owns the work and how employee data reaches other systems.
How does HR Operations control H2R?
Control pending work, approvals, alerts, cut-offs, failed hand-offs, and accountable completion.
Open operations guideINTEGRATION LANDSCAPEWhere do employee changes go after EC?
Follow the routes to ERP HCM through BTP, identity and access governance, and Microsoft Entra.
Open the H2R landscapeIDENTITY & ACCESSHow do identity, access, and HR data boundaries work?
Separate HR permissions, enterprise identity, access governance, target roles, and access evidence.
Open identity and accessPAYROLL AND FINANCIAL EXECUTION
Connect employee changes to payroll and FI/CO evidence
Use these topics to understand the time, payroll, and financial consequence of a people change—especially where SAP HCM executes payroll.
How do time, payroll, and Finance stay connected?
Connect effective-dated changes, payroll inputs, results, cost assignment, and Finance posting evidence.
Open the payroll and Finance guideSAP HCM PAYROLLHow does EC become an SAP HCM payroll result?
Follow the employee change through BTP, ECPAO/BIB, PA30, payroll selection, calculation, and FI/CO posting.
Open the HCM payroll guideOne workforce. Different HRIS models.
The H2R lifecycle may be common across the enterprise, but its system landscape often is not. See why multinational companies operate through enterprise HRIS, localized HRIS, or outsourced HR models — and how each reconnects to the enterprise backbone.
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