Centric tools against inconsistencies: Comprehensive plausibility check
Two key users are responsible for defining free checking rules. In the MADAP correction and checking tool, they can store generic checking rules for verifying HR master data and facts in SAP HCM or customer-specific infotypes and tables. With the help of MADAP PA, the HR master data is checked on this basis before each payroll run. Julia Ehrke passes on one of her team's experiences:
“Centric uncovers inconsistencies between infotypes that we wouldn't have noticed otherwise.”
Julia Ehrke, Head of Personnel Services
In combination with the PLK/PLX control system, this provides a complete picture of the error messages right down to the master data. The personnel master data in SAP HCM can then also be corrected from the standardized PLX user interface by jumping directly from the notes.
Successive optimization of master data
In order to process the initially concentrated error messages, the project team decided to take a step-by-step approach and work through the messages successively with each subsequent test run. Julia Ehrke estimates that it took around three to four months to process the old cases in addition to the current notifications.
The project manager can also pass this tip on to other users: With the introduction of Centric tools, not everything has to change overnight, but you can, for example, gradually optimize master data quality as part of the regular check runs alongside day-to-day business. Julia Ehrke notes:
“We have improved our HR master data month by month with the help of Centric tools and can now rely on top data quality.”
Julia Ehrke, Head of Personnel Services
Payroll with Centric: Automated check runs
The Payroll team prepares and checks around 1,700 payroll runs per month. The head office in Löhne is responsible for Nolte Küchen, while the HR department at the Melle-Bruchmühlen site is responsible for the subsidiary Express Küchen. The automated check runs are started on the 10th and 20th of each month. A major advantage of this is that the check no longer takes place shortly before the payroll run, as was previously the case. This means that errors are detected at an early stage and the information can be processed evenly throughout the month.
Positive feedback from the auditors
Stress and the potential for errors due to concentrated work processes at the end of the month are now a thing of the past. The Head of HR Services, Julia Ehrke, always has an overview of the status of the overall process thanks to the traffic light display of her team's processing progress. The HR department is now also on the safe side in terms of the required transparency and compliance: the introduction of the automated control system has been well received by the auditors at Nolte Küchen.
