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Why SAP HR is difficult to learn?

&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;ve heard a lot of times people complaining SAP HR is difficult to learn and nobody could explain why&period; Let me share with you my thoughts why SAP HR is complicated module and why you should not afraid to step into it&period; There are number of reasons HR consultants paid a little bit higher on the market&period; Read further to find out why&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>First of all I need to say there is a clear and straightforward solution how to become proficient&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ve written a post about this and you can read it here&nbsp&semi;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;saphcmsolutions&period;com&sol;how-to-become-a-sap-consultant&sol;">How to become a SAP consultant<&sol;a>&period; It doesn&&num;8217&semi;t mater what SAP Module you choose but stay there and learn it hard&period; There is no cheat sheet to jump on the running train and get promoted in months&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ve mentioned some personal advises if you would like to see my approach&period; Here is the link&nbsp&semi;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;saphcmsolutions&period;com&sol;five-efficient-steps-to-build-sap-hcm-consultant-career&sol;">5 Efficient steps to build SAP HCM Consultant Career<&sol;a>&period; Back to HR and SAP&period; SAP HR is a huge module and a lot of people think of it like a personnel records management or time and attendance&comma; or just payroll&period; It is not truth&period; SAP HCM is all about personnel but not as a chunks of separate data&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a whole integrated solution which includes personnel records&comma; time management&comma; payroll&comma; performance&comma; talents&comma; learning&comma; recruiting and much more&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s all named SAP HR module or SAP HR Suite&period; Architect level guys need to know all these &&num;8220&semi;chunks&&num;8221&semi; and how to marry them in a cake&comma; tasty cake&period; Other SAP modules have no such variety of functionality or components in SAP terms&comma; this wide spread of data management&comma; reporting and different technologies like old-school assembler coding&comma; infotype-approach and portal solutions &&num;8211&semi; all in one module&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In real life nobody knows all functions of all SAP HR components&period; This is too much to know for one person&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s why we have PA&sol;OM consultant&comma; Time Management Consultants&comma; SAP Payroll Consultants and a lot of other talent-pool consultants &lpar;one per component&rpar;&period; Saying this companies and recruiters don&&num;8217&semi;t make any distinguish within HR module and name all of us the same way &&num;8211&semi; SAP HR consultant &&num;8211&semi; while every component has its own specific&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Let&&num;8217&semi;s answer the question&comma; why HR is so difficult to learn&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;--more-->&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"wp-block-list"><li>Like mentioned above it&&num;8217&semi;s a <strong>large module with a lot of functionality<&sol;strong>&period; You need to choose one or two components and stick to them&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s rarely happens when you switch them in the future&period;<&sol;li><li>HR has own coding or <strong>programming language<&sol;strong>&period; Yes&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s truth that we code algorithms for time evaluation and payroll functions&period; And this language looks like old x86 assembler language which is not popular today &lpar;in some sense&rpar;&period;<&sol;li><li>It has a <strong>variety of technologies<&sol;strong>&period; HR has a back end like with a classical ERP interface&period; It has BSP pages for some <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;saphcmsolutions&period;com&sol;just-stop-using-sap-hcm-like-calculator-run-sap-hcm&sol;">ECM functionality<&sol;a>&period; It has SAP Netweaver Portal solution&period; <&sol;li><li>SAP Payroll is something specific&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s not only about programming skills for schemas and rules but about knowing the Law&period; In other components the processes are almost the same in every country but in payroll you need to know all Federal and Local Laws to stay current&period; I&&num;8217&semi;d say this is the <strong>main reason <&sol;strong>why <strong>SAP Payroll Consultants are paid more<&sol;strong> comparing to others&period; <&sol;li><li><strong>SAP HR updates<&sol;strong> almost monthly comparing to other modules&period; Because SAP supports a lot of countries from legal perspective&comma; they stamp a new support package every single month&period; And HR consultant needs to review it&comma; test it&comma; basically know what is in there and how it could affect current customer&&num;8217&semi;s solution&period; It could be a single note but could be hundreds of notes in just a one package&period; Read this my blog post about SAP updates <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;saphcmsolutions&period;com&sol;updating-sap-systems-for-customers&sol;">https&colon;&sol;&sol;saphcmsolutions&period;com&sol;updating-sap-systems-for-customers&sol;<&sol;a><&sol;li><li>From the user perspective&comma; HR in SAP looks different to a intuitive and easy to understand document approach systems&period; In other systems there is a document&comma; like a folder or a card with employee&&num;8217&semi;s data&period; All in one and in one sight&period; <strong>SAP HR infotypes have different nature<&sol;strong> and allow to track data changes over time more efficiently while it&&num;8217&semi;s harder to understand when you see SAP for the first time&period; <&sol;li><&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Doesn&&num;8217&semi;t these reasons seem to be self-explaining why SAP HR is difficult to learn&quest; If it&&num;8217&semi;s not that obvious to you&comma; look at average salaried&sol;rates on SAP HR market&period; They are usually a little bit higher&period; And market usually takes into account risks&comma; investments&comma; time to build a fair price per service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Do you want the final argument&quest; Try to read these two screenshots&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;saphcmsolutions&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;01&sol;xrr0&period;png" alt&equals;"Payroll Schema in SAP HR Payroll Module" class&equals;"wp-image-11354"&sol;><figcaption>Payroll schema in SAP Payroll<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;saphcmsolutions&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;01&sol;xppf&period;png" alt&equals;"Payroll Schema Rule in SAP HR Payroll Module" class&equals;"wp-image-11355"&sol;><figcaption>Payroll Rule in SAP HR<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Let me know what you think on this&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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