SAP HR (Human Resource) Interview Questions and Answers
SAP HR /HCM is one of the most widely used modules in SAP. I have written a lot on SAP HR Tutorial and this is a summary post that will work as an index to go through with all of them in order. We have listed of SAP HR interview questions and Answers that have been designed for SAP HR professionals who are preparing interviews on SAP HR (Human Resource).
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What is internal recruitment?
Internal recruitment is search for internal applicants. when you integrate with personal development, you can use profile match up which help to search for resources internally.
Also in recruitment it is represented by \\\’P\\\’ as Person and \\\’AP” as external person.
What is controlling area, what does it do, and how where is it assigned?
Controlling area is under of FI person which helps to set for costing purposes also based on these fiscal variant is set.
What is Recruitment Cycle?
It is the complete process of recruitment right from identifying the vacancies displaying the same, notifying them, inviting the applicants, screening the applicants, interviewing them, selecting them, and recruiting them and appointing them (giving an organizational position in the organization— all these processes constitute the recruitment cycles.
What is the role of an administrator in PA?
To restrict access to Personnel administration based on PA/PSA.
Administrator: we come across for Personnel administration, Time management, and Payroll in sap Each administrator is responsible for each individual activity. You can get the name of the administrator in the pay slip so the employee for any clarification he can meet the responsible administrator (accessed through payslip) This administrator (is created in PA of PM) is responsible for recruitment.
How to group employees for their allowances in payroll?
Go to basic salary of India in Payroll India and group the employee first depending on the allowances to be paid and this is applied for even differentiating the employees into groups depending on their pay structures.
What is the purpose of creating symbolic a/c, what is transaction code for same? Can we assign one symbolic a/c to multiple wage types?
It depends upon your payroll requirement to create salary head like expense account etc.
What is report variant for off cycle activities, what do we do in this step?
Variant is to save all input field parameters. once you saved as a variant, you can use the same for future purposes.
What all infotypes which has to be created at the time of hiring OR PA40 and cannot be maintained later with PA30?
Why you require creation of infotypes… If we have to create multiple positions, what method OR tool we can use to avoid errors due to creating them manually.
You can create multiple position by LSMW or batch programs for the Tcode PP01 or PPOCE
What do is LANDSCAPE in SAP Project, I think its related to no. of servers used, Pls correct me if I am wrong, Or what it is?
It is related to Basis
In OM, how to get the details for group of employees (ex.) group of Drivers in the organisation?
Drivers can be identified depending on their position at which they are working and you can have a different job codes for them who do you want to look into.
How is Time management and payroll is integrated?
Time Management and Payroll are integrated in ways are time data is collected from the info type 0007 and these hours are taken in basic as Number of hours worked or utilized, and even with time evaluation and last with schemas integration.
What are the other modules integrated with OM?
OM contains all the modules to be integrated, depending client requirement it is done. As OM-PA, OM -RECT, OM-BENEFITS, OM-TRAINING & EVENT MGMT, OM – PD AND OTHERS.
In TM, if group of employees get 10 days of annual leave, what will be the time evaluation status?
TIME evaluation shows the exact details maintained over to the employee through his 2006 and 2001. if they are all allowed to take leave it shows leave as paid or unpaid depending on the configuration done by the consultant for these situation. in processing time data in payroll or even Time evaluation (Valuation of absences) also.
What is meant by a schema?
(I said I’m only aware that it is a set of rules which is copied and renamed, but never worked on that.)
No, you have to say him that schema is a set of instructions (Programs) modified as per requirements and its process is to collect the data as from all the defined instructions with sub schemas and PCR’s. As I was not authorised to work on them I know just the process of schemas only, (you should have said like this.)
How do you restrict the data to be entered in payroll area?
No, data is entered in a payroll area, but the employees are defined depending on their pay scale structure. If you are restricting any data to be entered for pay strcs this is for indirectly for payroll area.
What is meant by authorization? Did you ever work on it?
Authorisations are the transactions given to the end users or the developers for only some areas to work, infotyopes, transaction codes, org units and others depending on the requirement of the client or the developing enterprise. Check this at PFCG tcode.
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