Hello Everybody,

I need information on SAP HR.

Could you please share your knowledge on this part?

How this is beneficial if we have the experience as a general HR for 1.5 yrs?

Whats the market demand?

Will highly appreciate if you can share your opinions.

Thanka a lot

Pooja

Dear Pooja,

SAP R/2 is a mainframe based business application software suite that was very successful in the 1980s and early 1990s. It was particularly popular with large multinational European companies who required soft-real-time business applications, with multi-currency and multi-language capabilities built in. With the advent of distributed client-server computing SAP AG brought out a client-server version of the software called SAP R/3 that was manageable on multiple platforms and operating systems, such as Windows or Linux since 1999, which opened up SAP to a whole new customer base. SAP R/3 was officially launched on 6 July 1992. SAP came to dominate the large business applications market over the next 10 years.

SAP R/3 is arranged into distinct functional modules, covering the typical functions in place in an organization. The most widely used modules are Financials and Controlling (FICO), Human Resources (HR), Materials Management (MM), Sales & Distribution (SD), and Production Planning (PP) Each module handles specific business tasks on its own, but is linked to the others where applicable. For instance, an invoice from the Billing transaction of Sales & Distribution will pass through to accounting, where it will appear in accounts receivable and cost of goods sold.

SAP HR is a complete integrated system for supporting the planning and control of personnel activities and HR module is sometimes equivalently referred as HCM (Human Capital Management).

This is beneficial for an HR person, if he/she desires to become an external consultant to work on off-shore projects in leading technology companies in India. SAP demand is on the rise since major economy companies across the world are on an outsourcing spree and also the indian companies have been recently feeling the need to implement SAP for their internal processes. We can say that market demand for skilled SAP professionals is much too high, demand > supply. However, the cost and fees for learning SAP is reasonable high going into a lac or more and it should always be taken care to learn the same from a reputed SAP training institute.

Regards,

brian

As I understand and belive, the SAP HR system caters to every possible business solution that any enterprise asks for and is very much recommended for Large Multinational concerns as well as medium sized enterprises. 

With regard to having experience  prior to taking SAP, as I can gather HR is the most complex module and has a different concept compared to other SAP modules.

People have said that they find it utmost important to have systems exposure of HR Functioning in an industry. Plus the hot cake, the Payroll and Time sub module under HR Module needs an practical exposure in Payroll management, without an practical experience, you will not achieve what you target for when you work for the companies and would always be dependent on someone to drive you.

Getting a break for first job as HR Consultant is tough, at least in India though the situtaion of demand vs supply is just as alarming as it is anywhere in the world.
Every company is expecting, you should have at least one implementation experience.What is important is you need to get to the right institute to take the SAP training as among some top companies like SIEMEN's offering this expensive course, there are a lot of "small timers" and "fly by night operators" who claim a lot and also make a lot of assurances of placements and great careers etc.