PEOPLE PROCESS
Hire to Retire
Explore how SAP SuccessFactors supports workforce planning, recruiting, employment, development, time, pay, and eventual separation for employees and external workers. Start with any question.
H2R LEARNING PATH
Build from lifecycle understanding to project delivery
Each level adds operational and delivery depth to the same employee lifecycle.
What is Hire to Retire?
Explore how SAP SuccessFactors supports workforce planning, recruiting, employment, development, time, pay, and eventual separation for employees and external workers.
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 or external-worker 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 worker relationship.
Meet recurring pay and employment obligations, then complete final settlement and controlled separation when employment or an external assignment ends. Approved time and recurring pay feed payroll calculation, statutory deductions, payment, posting to Finance, and worker 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.
Open operating modelsH2R 303 · PRACTITIONER PROCESS MAPHow does H2R run across HR and payroll?
Trace lifecycle hand-offs, payroll controls, Finance evidence, and exception triage.
Open practitioner mapH2R 101A · HRIS OPERATING MODELSWhere does the employee lifecycle execute?
Compare enterprise HRIS, federated local HRIS, and outsourced execution without changing the common employee lifecycle.
Open operating modelsH2R 404 · SOLUTION AND CONFIGURATION WORKBENCHHow do you design and configure H2R safely?
Establish ownership, effective dating, security, payroll boundaries, integrations, and test proof.
Open solution workbenchH2R 505 · LIVE PROJECT WALKTHROUGHHow does an H2R implementation unfold?
Follow one lifecycle release from discovery through testing, cutover, and stabilization.
Enter the projectH2R 606 · PRODUCTION SUPPORTHow do you support H2R when an employee lifecycle event goes wrong?
Trace identity, effective-dated change, integration, payroll, Finance, access, and offboarding evidence to the first unreliable state.
Open the support guide