No, it is not a question of taking stock today. Nor is it about staying behind. It is now time to grasp the full extent of the challenges facing HR leaders in the post-VIDO era. Even if we are all still in it, the day after will come and we all need to be prepared for it.

In the life of a consultant and especially in the life of a Kronite, working remotely for many of our clients was already part of our daily life. However, in the last few months, we have all had to face many challenges in this new reality where working remotely was not an exception but an obligation. Among these challenges are problems of connection, speed, security, but also the rapidity of change that any company has had to adapt to.

As SAP Basis, I have often seen confusion about SPAU and SPDD transactions following an update. These transactions are poorly understood, and no one wants to deal with them although all the developers are responsible for them as well as the Basis.

Founded in March 1969, Maritime Data Center was created as a result of a federal board that was set up to deal with labor relations problems in ports across Canada. At the time, longshoremen had established pressure on employers to standardize their working conditions, collective agreements and payroll system. The federal government allowed the operators to form an association. MDC's mission is to consolidate all timesheets across all ports and standardize pay for all stevedores, regardless of their working conditions. For over 50 years, MDC has been operating the payroll for the personnel of Eastern Canadian ports. 

With this blog series we provide a review of SuccessFactors interoperability, we will have a complete overview of most integration capabilities available in the current SAP integration ecosystem. Our objective is to organize in a structural way the information related with SuccessFactors integrations and tools. There is plenty of material about SuccessFactors integration but not all information applies for specific customer needs, process, or data interoperability challenges.

In this era where instantaneity triumphs in absolute mastery, it is certainly less obvious to take the time to ensure safety, consistent results, and continuous quality. Just as hyper-fast text messages in which grammatical, syntactic, or spelling errors seem permissible, or even justified, quality can sometimes be eroded.

Agropur is a Quebec agricultural cooperative specializing in milk processing. It processes more than six billion litres of milk produced by local farmers every year. Agropur is the largest dairy products company in Canada with annual sales approaching $6.7 billion.

Today, Agropur has 39 plants in Canada and the United States, with more than 8,800 employees.

The end of the year is approaching, and the Year-End Payroll Process is back on the top of our agendas. Though we carry this task out year after year, it still takes a lot of time and effort if not done optimally. I would like to share three main points of focus to better navigate the process. The three points will help to ease the company's stress and facilitate the entire procedure. 

Whether the organization is public or private, whether the company is a goods or services company, whether the business field or industry sector is financial, manufacturing, tourism... it doesn't matter. All these microcosms generating activities have projects and move from one project to another.

This is the second of four blogs regarding the Success Factor deployment model. The first blog was on the Talent Hybrid model, now I will shed light on the Core Hybrid Model.

One day came the moment when the starred chef stopped to eat in a boui-boui, the day when the doctor fell ill, the day that saw the poorly shod shoemaker wandering around in the landscape garden on fallow land. A difficult day, a day of questions, disbelief or why not.

Before asking yourself the right questions to evaluate and situate your change management in your company, let's start by talking about "change management" in everyday life. You will see that this type of management is present more often than you might think.

In SuccessFactors, processing HR Administration and Benefits managements at the same time may sound like a good idea. But regardless of whether you use Payroll with SAP or have Benefits integrated to it, it is worth your time to read the various options offered by SAP.

This is the third of four blogs regarding the SAP SuccessFactors deployment model. The first blog was on the Talent Hybrid model, the second was Core Hybrid Model, now we will talk about the Full Cloud Deployment Model. SAP SuccessFactors users and project leads, let me enlighten you. 

SAP has been changing their plans regarding the future of their HCM product according to the market’s demands and their intentions to move towards new technologies.

As an SAP Consultant and Service Delivery Manager, I have been asked different questions by many clients regarding this matter. They all want to know what the intentions of SAP in the near future are and how this will impact their current solution. I noticed some confusion and uncertainty around it. Therefore, I decided to investigate more and gather all the important information in one place. The aim of this blog is to simplify and give some clarity on the SAP strategy.

The business world is certainly a world of values. A world that evolves well when it is in tune with its societal environment, much less well when it is on the margins. Societies have evolved, and inevitably so has the business world. Taylorism and utilitarianism are gone. An organization that aims for a certain degree of sustainability must take the path of sustainable development, which involves a Human-Centric management philosophy, a business ethic based on respect for human resources as a primary resource.

Many of my clients using advanced scheduling often express the need to have a tool as powerful as the Scheduler, but more user-friendly. They want to allow their supervisors to consult their entire team or department at a glance. They also want to allow their supervisors to make changes more quickly.

Keeping in mind the best practices to continue to serve our Kronos customers well, several additional challenges must be taken into consideration so that the workshops (collaborative workshops) remain a success, all from a distance!

A project is not a static beast, a project is first and foremost a set of coordinated activities, interacting with each other, and aimed at achieving a specific objective. The achievement of this objective must be achieved within the limits of the three markers described above. The first guideline presents the very nature of the project, the third corresponds to the technical component, while the second addresses the human component.

In your company, have you ever participated in an IT implementation project? If so, what is the most common project management approach used by your company and what are the benefits?

Recently (yes, yes...), and obviously even today, it was common practice to address the issue of user interface (UI) usability.  As a key element of a successful user experience, usability directly referred to the ease and efficiency of use. The term was so widely used that its own meaning was diluted by its number.

EXFO found themselves expanding year over and year and realized that they needed to move to a “Best in Breed” HRIS and selected SAP SuccessFactors to equip the organization’s HR needs with the best possibility of success.    

In 2018 EXFO started their SAP SuccessFactors journey by implementing SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC) and Recruitment.  When it came to expanding their SAP SuccessFactors footprint by adding SAP SuccessFactors Performance and Goal Management, they decided to partner with IN-RGY.

In Release 6.2 in Dimensions we have seen a new and useful option for our customers. From now on you can manage the absence requests made by employees directly in the Scheduler. Indeed, this option previously only existed in Employee Self-Service where the direct manager could approve or refuse absence requests. Now, schedulers also have this option.

Since mid-March, all the news has been focused on a single subject, on a single major concern and all its consequences. Since the middle of March there has been this uncomfortable atmosphere of the end of something. More than two months confined between two brackets that are still not behind. Then, a feeling of suffocation. The body which, bowing under the pressure exerted by the desire to regain a certain idea of freedom, is shaken by a daily life that now seems detached from reality.

The writing will have marked the passage from prehistory to history. Man, in the generic sense of the term, offered himself, around the year 3300 B.C., a tool, a technology based on the same structures as language in order to make the transmission of information possible, while disregarding the temporal dimension.

In the current situation, as for many other types of environmental and social crises, companies need to become more flexible to accommodate and keep their workforce engaged and motivated.

Some companies are forced to react quickly to the COVID-19 pandemic and find appropriate responses to ensure that their employees are healthy or well taken care of, that they are not exposed to health risks through their professional activities, that they are able to ensure continuity in their work and therefore to provide them with the conditions for effective remote work.

In this blog entry, we will focus on one particular benefit type being supported in SAP SF EC Global Benefits: insurance. Insurances are a big part of enterprises the employee’s perk package that help attract and retain clients but to this date, there are very few references or blog on SAP SF Insurances. Therefore, I’m hoping to fill some of this gap with this entry.

No matter how long you’ve been in HR, it’s safe to say this current crisis has been like no other. None of us have ever faced anything like this. We are being forced to re-think how we work, how we communicate, and how we manage our businesses. 

Labatt recently launched products into the antiseptic market, many automobile manufacturers are lending their resources to produce medical devices, and large restaurant franchises are putting take-out menus to good use during this strange time. The aforementioned companies all have a common denominator: adaptation, and active steps towards transformation.

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. Maxim often attributed to the philosopher Aristotle, who studied with Plato. While this Aristotelian attribution has little justification (nowhere written as such in his work and reductive to a geometric analysis), the fact remains that the holistic ideology underlying this sentence is still grounded.

You have probably seen this message appear on some internet browsers since the beginning of the year. This announcement is the final step in switching from flash-coded applications to HTML5 code. What are the consequences for the LMS? 

Strictly speaking, benchmarking consists of analysing the operations, practices and management tools of organisations with very similar activities, i.e. competitors. This approach makes it possible to identify how others overcame the challenges in question, how they adapted. Find out the major challenges companies can face by benchmarketing their work process.

Did you know? A successful change management will be significantly influenced by the user experience. So how do you carry our your project? Who would you consider in your change process, and why?

All you questions can be answered on this blog article. 

Tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock... Comfort then sets in, ambition slips away, and the project goes awry. Have you ever thought that your project could be driven not in the HOW but in the WHY ? Read our article to know more about the three risk factors involved in each of the previously-identified rationales. 

Great News! We’re facing a serious labor shortage. How to turn the issue of labor shortage into a strategic advantage ? Read the article here.

We’ve noticed something unsettling. In our many interactions with clients using SAP SuccessFactors, we have uncovered that most do not take advantage of a critical security feature that allows administrators of the solution to have direct visibility and control over who can access their environments. Scary, right? 

IN-RGY will tell you everything about SAP SuccessFactors view provisioning access, required permissions, etc... This will help you easily grant and control provisioning access, that until recently, was not so easy to manage. Now, you are in control and only approved users have access to your system.

Disruption has a name and it’s called: CHANGE. rganizations must adapt to grow, particularly when they also have to manage younger resources. To guarantee the implication and retention of employees, traditional management methods must be updated to meet the constant evolution of the present and future workforce.

WorkForce Software, time management software publisher, launched the Standard Product at the end of 2016. This module includes a base product to which extensions are added and based on an implementation methodology called Xcelerate.

The 25^th edition of the Branham300 annual listing of top tech companies in Canada is an important barometer of Canada’s tech sector for both public and private companies.

In 2017, IN-RGY gives effect to its R&D efforts by offering for sale an innovative plus-in module for the Kronos solution.

In our on-going SAP SuccessFactors series of blog postings dedicated to maximizing and optimizing your system use, this month we delve into the power you hold in your very hands, the power to get your enhancement ideas realized!

You may have heard that more than 50 percent of Fortune 500 companies are already exploring deployment of software robots within their IT landscape. The market – which is growing at a rate of 30 percent – is expected to hit $2.7 Billion in 5 years. Imagine that!

Intelligent automation solutions such as, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) have rapidly moved from hype to reality and are working their way into mass market adoption.

What if emotional intelligence was the new leadership? Placing emphasis on soft skills development in today's company culture is crucial to engaging teams and guiding them towards success – a key element at IN-RGY.

The configuration of a system should be designed with the end user in mind, but functionally should also play a role.

This month’s blog focuses on a specific setting within the Platform Configuration that you likely may not know about. I’m referring to the “Hide User Name From UI” setting that SAP SuccessFactors and partners like us, can configure.

Project Management… This activity filled with unexpected twists and surprises! If only this concept could only mean to manage a project and then execute the project plan. But, as you very well know, project management is a little bit more difficult.

Often images of humanoid machines or robotic arms in plants immediately come to mind when we talk about “robots”. Yet, this vision is today still a little bit inaccurate. New robots in the form of software called RPA (Robotic Process Automation) arise and figure prominently on the present technological market.