More SAP Human Resource Interviews

1. How can you create new objects in org. mgmt?

A. To create a new object go to OM -> Basic Settings -> Data Model enhancement - > Create Objects their relationship and TC.

2. Can you assign a job to another job, and a position to another position? Explain.

A. We have to assign Position to Job. Because Job is General (Eg: Manager) and Position is Specific (Manager -Hr). We can relate two Positions like Reports to, subordniate...

3. What do you mean by assigning priorities to positions in recruitment? In orgn. Mgmt.?

A. In which Priority the applicant can apply for Position.

4. What is meant by an enterprise structure? (I said it comprises of Company code, Personnel Area and Personnel Subarea, but the panelist says, he's not satisfied with the answers. Do I need to add anything else to this answer?)

A. You have to explain the full concept of Enterprise Structure and how it related to Employee Structure and where we assign this to Employees, and for what purpose we defining the Ent structure.

5. How many co.codes can you assign to a personnel area? How many pers. Areas can be assigned to a company code? Explain.

A. Co Code can contain any number of PA, but one PA must contain One Co Code. Because Co Code is the legal entity of the company, using which the FI people draw various statements like BS, PL account.

6. What is the IT to store educational establishment types? Why do you need them? Do educational certificates and branches of studies come under the same IT?

A. IT0022. To maintain the educational details of the employee.

7. What is the IT store employee's previous industry sector?

A. IT0023.

8. What are dynamic actions? Where do you configure them?

A. Dynamic Actions are automatically trigerred by the system when certain actions met. Eg: If you enter no of Child as 2 in IT0002, the system automically triggers the IT0021, subtype Child to enter the details, Otherwise it wont trigger the IT0021, if you didnt mention any value in no of child in IT0002. Same like that we can configure Dynamic Actions depends on our need using the path IMG->PM->PA-> Customizing Procedure -> Dyn Action. or by using Table T588Z.

9. What is meant by work schedule rules?

A. WSR is used to define your WS for a defined period. It Comprises your EE Subgroup,PWS, HC. We can default the WSR using the Feature SCHKZ for your grouping.

10. Today is a holiday, and is paid, where do I do specify such type of things?

A. Using Holiday Class and Day Type.

11. What is meant by counting classes?

A. Counting Classes are used to define your various Counting rules for your A/A types.

12. What is the feature used to create a personnel no. How do you create a personnel no.?

A. NUMKR. Using the Tcode PA40.

13. What are the features connected to Organizational Assignment?

A. ABKRS, VDSK1,PINCH.

14. What is the feature IGMOD used for?

A. It is used to define your Infogroup.

15. What is meant by valuating of base wage types?

A. USed to valuate your WT, if it depends on some % of other WT. Say HRA is some 20% of Basic.

16. What is meant by day types?

A. Day types used to determine the particular day is payment relevant or not. 0 - Work/Paid, 1 - TimeOff/Paid, 2 - TimeOff/Unpaid, 3 - TimeOff/Special.

17. What is meant by Applicant Status and what are the reasons? Why do you need them?

A. Applicant Status denotes the current status of the Applicant, say Screening, On Process, On hold, Rejection and we have to define various reasons for each and every Status. Say why the Applicant Status is OnHold.

18. In which IT do you assign an applicant to a vacancy. Where do you assign that status?

A.Status we can assign using the TCode PB40.

19. How do applicant actions differ from applicant activities?

A. Applicant Actions can same as above like Rejected, On hold, On process. Activites can be what are all the various activites perform for each activity for the Applicant.

20.What are the ways to transfer applicant data? What is the difference between them?

A. PBA7 and PBA8.

21. What is the difference between prebooking and booking?

A. Booking is the actual booking of Attendee for an event, Prebooking is used to check whether the Attendee already booked for the event.

22. Tell me something about the IT Payroll Status

A. IT0003 is used to define the current payroll status of the employee like released, exit. We can lock the personnel number using the IT0003.

Human Resource Interview Questions

How do I change the hiring date which is wrongly entered without rehiring and changing personnel numbers?

There are Three Scenarios when you may need to change hiring date:

1) After payroll is run - when hiring date is before actual Hiring date.
2) After payroll is run when hiring date is after actual Hiring Date.
3) Before the payroll is run.

1) PA30 -- Copy actions infotype - action type - incorrect entry -- save and come out PA 30 copy actions infotype -- action type - correct entry - now correct your entries, save your date is changed.

2) PA30 - Utilities - change payroll status - delete accounted to feild, save and come out - then again utilities change entry leaving date - corrrect the hiring date - save and come out.

3) PA30 - Utilities change entry/leaving date change your date and save.

1. What is the use of IT 0003 ?
2. What is the differ. between App.Range and App.Group ?
3. What is the role of Enterprise structure and Personnel Structure in Time Management and Payroll?
4. I hired one employee, after three months he promoted as Manager, after one year again he promoted as GM, how many times will you upload this data by using LSMW ? and Explain in detail ?
5. What is the relation between IT 0007 and IT 0008 ?
6. What is the diff. between Job and Position in OM ? Can you asign Task direct to Position without Job ?
7. What have you done in Recruitment ?
8. What are the fields in IT 0007 ?

1. IT 0003- Infotype in which data on the Payroll status and Time Management status is stored. For example, the system stores the date of the last payroll run performed for the employee in the Payroll Status infotype (0003). The system automatically creates this infotype when the employee is hired. In general, the system updates the infotype and writes the changes to the payroll past.

2. Application range-It is used to classify applicants according to either hierarchical or functional criteria. Hierarchical classification involves classifications such as executive employees, salaried employees. Specialists. Functional groupings include corporate management, administration, production ......

Applicant group- It is used o classify applicants according to the type of employment contract for which they are applying. Exa- employees with a permanent contract, employees with a temporary contract and so on...........

3. Enterprise structure- It specifies groupings for Time Management. This enables to set up work schedules, substitution types, absence types, and leave types on the basis of a specific personnel sub area.

Personal structure- The employee subgroup grouping for the work schedule enables you to determine which work schedules are permissible for which employee subgroups. The employee subgroup grouping for time quotas enables you to specify which attendance and absence quote types are eligible for which employee subgroups

4. Relation between 0007 and 0008- The system takes the employment percentage and the average number of working hours from infotype 0007 and suggests them as default values for the capacity utilization level and working hours per period in infotype 0008.

5. Job Job is nothing but a general classification of sets of functions. A job describes a position. The position automatically inherits the tasks and and characteristics assigned to the job through a relationship.

Position-It can be occupied by holders at company. Each position occupied by a employee. Multiple assignment are possible. Position can be 100% filled, partially filled or vacant.

6. IT 0007 fields- Work schedule rule, Time management status, working week, employment percentage, Daily working hour, weekly working hour, monthly workinh hours, actual working hours, weekly workdays.

FAQs

1) 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 differantiating the employees into groups depending on their pay structures.

2) 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.

3) How is Time managment and payroll is integrated?

TM MGMT 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 utilizwed, and even with time evaluation and last with schemas integration.

X000 schema carries xt00 and these data can be transfered between other modlues.

4) 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.

CHECK THIS BY GOING TO IMG --> CTRL F AND GIVE INTEGRATION WITH OM )
CHECK ALL OF THEM , GO FOR PROGRAM

RHINTE00 PHINTE10 , PRHINTE20 , PHINTE30 AND 40 ALSO.

5) 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.

6) Find the scenario and give the result : A,B,C are employees, where A,B will get basic,HRA,DA. C gets Basic and DA. How to group for the allowances?.

Allowances are paid depending on his gradation and even wages are also paid on this criteria, if AB are paid bas, hra and DA then take three wage types ans assign to the ES Grouping and don't give HRA wage type to C.

Check basic salary of inda and ALlowances in indian payroll thorougly, bcos first of all v have to undestand this first and
then you have to decide the emp sub gtroupings.

FAQs

SAP HR Interview Questions

1) 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.

2) What are problems generally faced while posting result to FICO ?

Normally mismatching of amount get posted.

3) What is controlling area, what does it do, and how were is it assigned ?

Controlling area is under of FI person which helps to set for costing purposes also based on thses fiscal variant is set.

4) 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 payrol requirement to create salary head like expense account etc.

5) 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.

6) 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...

7) 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 muliple position by LSMW or batch programs for the Tcode PP01 or PPOCE

8) 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

9) What is the role of a administrator in PA ?

To restrict access to Personnel administration based on PA/PSA.

Administrator: we come across for Personnel admininstration, Time management, and Payroll in sap .

Each admiinistrator is reponsible 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 administrtor (is created in PA of PM) is responsible for recruitment.

10) What is golive actually ? What is the role of a functional consultant in it ?

Go live is transfering of data from Development server to Production server.

Development -----> Quality server

In Quality you need to Unit, Integration testing, Once it is OK in Qulaity server,

Then you need

Development ----> Production