SAP Process Improvements
Your SAP system is a highly valuable investment – naturally, you would want to ensure that it is well executed.
Keeping up with technological innovations and evolving functionality is an important ongoing commitment, as is guaranteeing compliance with regulatory requirements. You will also need to update processes proactively, not as an afterthought, as your business circumstances change.
Some customers often lack the metrics to evaluate how effectively their SAP systems are working after they go live, which also results in significant potential for improved business processes and reduced support not being recognised. This results in unnecessary costs and stagnating unlocked value in your business. In those cases, our SAP experts recommend a Business Process Review.
Business Process Review
Any organisation that runs SAP and suspects that it is not getting the most out of its people, processes, and technology can benefit from an Absoft Business Process Review.
If you notice any of the following processes in your business, it may be time to consider optimising your solution:
- Key staff members spending more time fixing data or transactional problems than performing their job function
- Knowledge gaps in SAP systems
- Core business processes being executed manually rather than in an ERP
Absoft's Business Process Review
During Absoft’s Process Review, we take a holistic view of your business processes across three dimensions and provide solutions to improve performance. This helps you move from your current situation towards an optimum process state. We then will work with you to determine which recommendations your organisation would like to proceed with and provide a plan as to how this will be achieved.
Is Your Entire SAP System Up to Date?
Stay updated, ahead and get maximum return with more of our SAP Process Improvements services below:
HR & Payroll
Whether your main aim is to become more efficient, or to reduce the overall costs of your HR processes, or perhaps both, Absoft’s dedicated HR & Payroll team can work with you to help you realise the potential of your SAP HCM investment.
Having worked with clients across the UK since 1991, Absoft’s HR team have provided various services to an expansive range of customers – from simple process improvements to larger scale projects which drive compliance and efficiency across the organisation.
Compliance
How is your organisation contending with the UK HR & Payroll compliance crunch? Are there any areas risking an HMRC fine?
The HR & Payroll compliance crunch taking place in the UK has already impacted numerous companies, as HMRC will penalise businesses who don’t strictly comply with new and ever changing requirements. Making sure you fully adhere to legislation while keeping up with the additional duties is no easy task. Many HR departments across the country are feeling the strain.
Absoft has been implementing and supporting SAP HR & Payroll systems since 1991. We make it our business to stay up to date with all UK HR and payroll legislative requirements, as well as evolving SAP functionality.
Some of the important benefits of our service include:
- Identifying key areas for HR and payroll related improvement
- Ensuring legislative, sector, and organisational compliance
- Reducing the risk of penalties from government bodies
- Delivering tangible cost savings through process optimisation and SAP system efficiencies
Payroll
There are many issues that can arise in your payroll set-up and execution.
Complex processes in SAP ERP to gather payroll data, an overabundance of outdated and obsolete wage types, and the challenge of consolidating consistent HR information and employee records often lead to inefficiencies and inaccuracies in payroll management. Accurately retrieving hours of work from multiple systems, calculating legislative pensionable or HMRC requirements, and ensuring compliance with statutory sick or parental pay can also be needlessly daunting. Moreover, manual intervention to correct wage calculations, data collection encroaching upon tight execution windows, and limited time to perform RTI or reconciliation processes further can complicate your systems. Any one of these issues can necessitate the adoption of more streamlined and automated solutions.
At Absoft, we understand these pressures that organisations face when executing their weekly, fortnightly, or monthly payroll.
With unrivalled experience in helping customers simplify and automate their complex payroll processes, Absoft have helped our client base achieve the efficiency, accuracy, and stability in their payroll execution that they desire.
Across our customers, our payroll services have resulted in:
- 33% reductions in support tickets raised
- 40% reductions in support hours required
- Over 100 corrections to wage type properties – some of which were legislative
- 20% reductions in reactive payroll interventions – allowing more time for introducing improvements
HR Administration
SAP Human Capital Management (SAP HCM) provides you with the most comprehensive global HCM solution available in the market today. Having worked with clients across the UK for over 25 years, Absoft’s HR team have extensive experience of helping our customers improve their SAP HR module.
Some of the more common improvements we help our customers with include:
- Automating manual, repetitive tasks involved in scenarios such as new employee induction, separation, job move via automatic generation of email notifications, reminders, and correspondences
- Activating parts of the HR module you don’t use such as Personnel Cost Planning. We review your organisation’s SAP HR systems with a view to optimise support for your exact business needs.
- Facilitating time capture and ensuring seamless flow of time data into Finance and Supply Chain modules
- HR’s reporting capability and helping you to fill any reporting gaps
- Streamlining typical HR scenarios such as employee take-on, change in organisational assignments and retiring
- Ensuring that your HR system integrates as well as it possibly could with Payroll – whether you use SAP Payroll, a different system or use an outsourced payroll service.
- Ensuring that you make the most of SAP
Employee Self-Service
Organisations are under ever-increasing pressure to reduce costs and do more with less. We believe that self-service is an area where the “more for less opportunity” is tangible. For example, consider activating ESS (Employee Self-Service) and MSS (Manager Self-Service) which is a functionality that sits within SAP HR, and allows the users to directly update SAP in relation to their personal information. ESS/MSS can be used in conjunction with Fiori/SAPUI5 applications which provides the user with a simplified user interface and allows for a more enjoyable user experience.
Finance
Are you looking to improve the way your system supports and drives your financial processes?
Whether your main aim is to become more efficient, or to reduce the overall costs of your financial processes, or perhaps both, Absoft’s dedicated Finance team can work with you to help you realise the potential of your SAP FICO investment.
Having worked with clients across the UK since 1991, Absoft’s Finance team have a vast amount of experience in providing various services to our customers, from simple process improvements to larger scale projects which drive automation and transparency across the organisation.
Specific projects we can help with include budgeting and forecasting, invoice automation, FICO process review and more.
Across our customers, our FICO services have resulted in:
- 33% reductions in support tickets raised
- 40% reductions in support hours required
- Over 100 corrections to wage type properties – some of which were legislative
- 20% reductions in reactive payroll interventions – allowing more time for introducing improvements
Operations
Are you looking to improve the way your system supports and drives your organisations operational processes?
Whether your main aim is to become more efficient, or to reduce the overall costs of your operations, or perhaps both, Absoft’s dedicated Operations team can work with you to help you realise the potential of your SAP investment within Maintenance, Inventory, Logistics and Production.
Absoft helps you better manage your operations and supply chain by;
- Maximising visibility of the order, transportation, delivery and returns process
- Driving down supply chain costs
- Reducing planning cycle times
- Enabling collaboration across departments and out with organisational boundaries
- Streamlining purchase requisition and approval processes
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