PEOPLE PROCESS

Hire to Retire

Explore how SAP supports workforce planning, recruiting, employment, development, time, pay, and eventual separation. 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.

H2R 101 · PROCESS OVERVIEW

What is Hire to Retire?

Explore how SAP supports workforce planning, recruiting, employment, development, time, pay, and eventual separation.

SHAPE

Workforce structures define where work belongs before a person is hired.

Legal entities, business units, departments, jobs, positions, locations, and cost objects connect people decisions to security, workflows, payroll, and reporting.

Open topic →SELECT

Recruiting moves an approved vacancy from sourcing through selection and offer.

A requisition describes the role, approvals, hiring team, and candidate criteria. Applications, interviews, assessments, offers, and compliance records form the selection trail.

Open topic →OBJECT MODEL

How is an employee record put together?

Connect person identity, employment, effective-dated job and compensation history, Position, foundation objects, platform user data, and payroll identities.

Open anatomy →ACTIVATE

Onboarding turns an accepted offer into a ready worker and complete employment record.

Personal, job, bank, tax, benefit, equipment, and policy data are collected with appropriate access. Tasks coordinate HR, manager, IT, payroll, and the new hire.

Open topic →GROW

Talent development connects goals, feedback, skills, learning, performance, and internal opportunity.

Managers and employees maintain goals and development plans; reviews and learning evidence support fair decisions without replacing human judgment.

Open topic →SUPPORT

Time, payroll, benefits, and separation complete the employment lifecycle.

Approved time and recurring pay feed payroll calculation, statutory deductions, payment, posting to Finance, and employee statements. Offboarding ends access and settles final obligations.

Open topic →DATA MODEL

What is an MDF Object in SAP SuccessFactors?

See how object definitions, fields, associations, effective dates, rules, permissions, UI, and API form one controlled data model.

Open deep dive →DETERMINE

What determines an employee change?

Trace business event, effective date, event reason, rules, workflow, permissions, synchronization, and downstream evidence.

Open determination guide →RUN OPERATIONS

How does HR Operations control H2R?

Control pending work, approvals, alerts, cut-offs, failed hand-offs, and accountable completion across the lifecycle.

Open operations guide →

H2R 303 · PRACTITIONER PROCESS MAP