SAP HR Interview Questions and answers

we can list out top SAP HR Interview Questions and Answers for Freshers and professionals to learn more on SAP HR Module. SAP HR (Human Resource), module with SAP which include some of the components for streamlining the organization structure of client organizations. We can list some of frequently ask SAP HR Interview questions and answers in this post. 

SAP HR Interview Questions and answers 

What is customizing? What does customizing support?

Customizing means modifying the functionality of the system provided by SAP to meet the needs of the company implementing it.

What are the important info types for a hiring action?

The following infotypes are part of the hiring action and will be edited in the same sequence when the hiring action is performed: 0000 – Actions (to capture employee movement info in the organ.

What are infotypes in SAP HR?

Infotype is a logical grouping of related fields of employee information. For example, Employee addresses (Permanent, Temporary, Home, Emergency etc…) form one Infotype. …

HRIS – Human Resources Information system

Basically there are four (standard delivered) ways to get information out of HR: 1. Report Tree which is HR -> Information System -> Reports -> Reporting tools -> Pick a sub-module such as Administ.

SAP HR -Deleting / Changing Employee Master

We use mini HR for tracking time thru CATS. One emp master was created with a wrong start date 1991 and now system gives error message that Fiscal Yr variant is not maintained for the year.

Hiring the Old Employee In To the Company

If we trying to re-hire an employee left the organization 2 years back. I configured the re-hiring action by copying the hiring action infotypes.

Employee Name not displaying in Infotype 1 and 17

Check In IMG Personnel management – > Customizing User Interface – > Define Infotype Header Q: I want to see the tables and data. What the transaction code for the same. A: USE SM31 or SE16

How to assign employees to two different company codes?

I don’t think it is possible. It should not be possible logically as well because Company is a Financially Independent Entity & one person cannot be employed by two companies.

Qualifications Catalog  

If qualifications are maintained in Qualifications Catalog within PD, how does it get into infotype 24? Can we maintain qualifications required to do a specific job within OM using …

List of used infotypes

You could find a list of infotypes off the IMG. Are you looking for PA or PD infotypes? Try RPUAUD00 Infotype Log Documents OR T512Z Permitted Wage Types.

Difference between Indian & US Payroll

These are the differences between Indian and U.S payrolls: SAP has given country specific payrolls for more than 40countries each country specific version is called country version. Every country.

Differentiate between Payroll area and payscale area.

Pay roll area indicates the group of employees for whom pay roll is run together, Pay scale area is geographical are or groups of employees for whom a particular CAP is Valid.

What is the t.code for authorization’s?

PFCG for roles authorizations and SU01 for creating Users.

What is an unsolicited applicant group?

The group of Applicants who have applied without any advertisement or requirement from the company. (The best example is , these days, most of the job seekers, go to company’s URL and load their cv …

What is an applicant group in SAP HR?

An Applicant Group (AG) is used to group together applicants on the basis of the type of work relationship for which they have applied for example, permanent employees and temporary employees.

What are the IT’s used in NUMKR? (I said NUMKR is associated with Org. Assgnmt.)

Its for defaulting No range in IT 0000,0002,0001,0006,007,0008,0009 etc .Infact this feature enable to default no range in all the ITs of Hiring infogroup which again customized on clients specificat.

What are the most important ITs in benefits?

General Benefits Information 0171 – Adjustment Reasons I 0378 – Health Plans 0167 – Insurance Plans 0168 – Savings Plans 0169 – Stock Purchase Plans 0379 – Credit Plans 0236

How many health plans have you configured, what are they?

This is always your choice. But general names are – Health Dental Plan – Medical Plan fro children – Health Medical Plan 2 – Medical plan with Partner – Medical plan for Singles …

What are the features you used in benefits?

Common Features Used in benefits: P0167.defaulting screens for IT0167.. P0168 defaulting screens for IT0168 P0169 defaulting screens for IT 0169 P0170 defaulting screens for IT170 P017.

What is absence quota type?

Absence quota is the quota up to which an employee can be absent from work. Generally sickness leave, Annual leave, Casual leave etc are types of absence Quotas which vary according to ESGs. …

How do you configure absence? Give an example.

In Time record administration you will have to configure the absences. First you group the employees for the absences and configure the different absences in the next screen.

What is absence type?

Absence types are nothing but leave type, Basing on the type Absence Type, pay roll is affected. …

What are day types? How many day types exist? What are they? Where do you configure them?

The day type determines the payment relevance for a day and the relevancy of the day for calculating attendances for each day of DWS. 0,(work paid) 1– Off–paid 2–Off–unpaid 3 off–special day.

How do you create customized Its? What is the no. range for customer specific Its?

It can be done through PM01 and the range is 9000 to 9999 .

What is meant by retroactive accounting?

Running pay roll from a previous date. if you don’t do anything in the system, the system will take the Earliest Retroactive account date stored In Pay roll status Infotype that 003. …

What is meant by payroll area? What are the uses of payroll area?

Pay roll area indicates group of Employees for Whom pay roll is run at the same time. Payroll can be run separately for different employee groups, using different payroll areas.

How do your correct payroll?

In the pay roll log you would see the errors or through the Check pay roll and make necessary correction in Corrections (PC00_M99_PA03_CORR)

How do you run payroll?

There are the steps to run the pay roll a) Simulation.. to see wheather everything is fine or not b) Release Pay roll( here you are actually changing the staus in the pay roll control reord)

How to create a HR infotype?

1) Go to Transaction PM01. 2) Enter the custom Infotype number which you want to create (Should be a 4 digit number, start with 9). 3) Select the ‘Employee Infotype’ radio button. 4) Sale …

How to add a logo into HR sap scripts?

To create the logo and save it in baseline tiff6 format ie logo.tiff – from sap menu choose – tools,abap workbench and choose abap editor. – in the program field, enter RSTXLDMC – execute – deter …

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