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SAP HCM Valuable Features

Renelia Villanueva - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President & Group Head- People & Workplace Management at Alorica

The payroll suite is very valuable. The calculation and the schema help a lot. Capturing all the attendances and absences is a huge task that must be completed before running payroll. We also see that the results that go to S/4 HANA for booking are very good.

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Imran Hafeez - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager IT at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

The integration provided by SAP between different modules is very good.

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MT
Global Practice Head Sap HCM/Succeess at Sutherland Global Services

SAP HCM is a competitive and comprehensive tool that covers major programs in the enterprise and supports the global process. It's a well-integrated model.

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Fachlul Infithar - PeerSpot reviewer
IT PMO at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The functions are really important in the product in ReadyNodes. Based on experience with vSAN ReadyNodes, potential room for improvement could be identified for the product.

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reviewer2516868 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Digital & Innovation at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We're implementing SAP SuccessFactors to streamline our HR operations. Before, we only did payroll in SAP HCM. Now, we're bringing in personal and recruiter information to make the workflow easier and less time-consuming.

The payroll function in SAP HCM has been most beneficial for managing global workforces. We plan to use goal management and KPI features to link to payroll through the SAP SuccessFactors module.

The payroll functionalities have greatly enhanced our efficiency. Previously, we did payroll manually in Excel, which was time-consuming and error-prone. Now, there's a single source of truth in the system, drastically reducing human errors - I'd say by about 60-65%.

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Vasu Narasimha - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO at BluTech Talent Plus LLP

Imagine SAP SuccessFactors (HXM), the human experience management software, as the equivalent of the business ERP for employees and HR. It's an ERP for managing your most valuable asset – People, which is why effective talent management is crucial!

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Kumar-Saurav - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder, CEO at AccelSoft Infotech

For payroll management, we have the flexibility to define wage types, which allows us to effectively define different pay scales and allowances. 

Additionally, we can merge rules to accommodate leaves and policies, like determining holiday entitlements versus leaves taken, and whether it's within the limit. 

If it's within the limit, the full salary is allowed. Otherwise, based on the rule, the amount is deducted before releasing the final amount. This is done through Infotypes. By defining these details, we can accurately calculate summaries and other relevant information.

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reviewer1039926 - PeerSpot reviewer
Independent Integrator at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Payroll is always the central area the tool focuses on. It needs to ensure things are flowing, employees are paid on time, and there are no issues related to location, pay, or hiring. SAP HCM helps observe all the work, from hiring to paying paychecks every month. It's a system that depends on the data you input. You don't want to work with bad data and expect miracles. If the data isn't clean, it's more work.

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Rajkumar V P - PeerSpot reviewer
Director & CHRO at Tecple Innoventive Solutions Pvt Ltd

SAP HCM has valuable features for analytics data management. The employee experience feature is another good functionality that allows us to note down feedback. It provides ease of utilization and efficient integration with stand-alone products and works well in delivering reports. It has a better mobile application compared to others.

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MA
SAP HCM Professional at Al Rajhi International for Investment

The most valuable feature of the SAP HCM solution was its integration with SuccessFactors, particularly the Performance Management feature. This integration allowed for effective employee performance and payroll data management.

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reviewer2306628 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The platform is simple to use and has a user-friendly dashboard and integration features.

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MN
SAP manager at Pakistan Telecommunication Limited

The valuable features of SAP HCM include managing employee data from hiring to retirement. It handles settings for new hires and stores employee information. 

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MM
HR Intern at Pakistan State Oil Company Ltd

All our employee data, like performance and payroll, is managed through SAP HCM.

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SG
SAP Delivery Manager at Tec Grato

We have features such as ABKRS based on the client's requirement, tariff and TMSTA, and so on.

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VK
Software Engineer at Nexogic

The feature I like most in SAP HCM is its effectiveness for talent management. I'm comfortable with the complete accounting module, using transaction codes and generating invoices. The process is easy, and using entry sheets is flexible. I find the accounts module very good.     

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NK
HR Assistant at Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization - CTBTO

The tool's most valuable features for our HR operations include easy reporting capabilities, which allow us to generate reports for management meetings and auditing purposes. Additionally, it supports appointment preparation and processing benefits. 

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AjayKumar14 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations director at FeatherThread LLP

The tool's best feature is SAP SuccessFactors. 

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Ahmed_Kamal - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Supervisor at Gieco
Arsala Abbas - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP HCM / SF Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Payroll processing is my favorite HCM feature, and I like all the SuccessFactors talent modules also. SAP is making good progress on enhancements to the features in the SF modules.

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Sara Kadry - PeerSpot reviewer
HR Digital Transformation Senior Manager at Integrated Diagnostics Holdings PLC

The core modules of this solution are for personnel and payroll, which is the basic setup for any HRIS system.

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DS
SAP HCM Senior Consultant at WadiDegla

The solution has powerful capabilities for managing small, medium, and large businesses. They provide the most stable and powerful technology in the areas of human resources, information systems, and ERP. 

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Sameer Younas - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Leader at Fauji Meat Limited

I think that it's a very powerful tool for maintaining your company data. When you maintain your data in SAP, you can generate any kind of HR report with one click.

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Kumar Madhur - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Project Manager at HCL Technologies

SAP HCM has a good performance.

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AR
Management Executive at Pak-Arab Refinery Ltd.

The solution has the best customization features. It provides good data management features and integration with enterprise resource management platforms.

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VK
Senior Consultant at HRPAth

The payroll and time management features are useful.

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Rajkumar V P - PeerSpot reviewer
Director & CHRO at Tecple Innoventive Solutions Pvt Ltd

Most of it is similar to Oracle HCM. 

They have some interesting features in the learning space.

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reviewer938739 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

SAP HCM can handle a large number of employees. We can easily process payrolls and check the arrangements, and the client can also check the performance of the employees. Additionally, it has some advanced features. 

It can be integrated into any platform and is very secure. It's very difficult to access SAP's database, and if anyone tries to log in, his computer's name and password amongst other information will be saved in the system. We can integrate your fingerprint in the system to automatically log in to the system. The integration is very good with other applications.

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Fachlul Infithar - PeerSpot reviewer
IT PMO at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It simplifies everything for human capital management, and all users can do self-enrollment for leaves and those kinds of things. The employee self-service feature is quite a powerful feature for me.

You can install it on your mobile phone or iPad and do your employee service activity there.

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it_user1220727 - PeerSpot reviewer
Interface Developer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is Organizational Management (OM).

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NontokozoKunene - PeerSpot reviewer
Professional Officer at The National Research Foundation of South Africa

It's highly flexible, allowing you to understand the employee processes from hiring to departure. Additionally, you can access comprehensive information. It essentially structures the employees and their data to achieve organizational goals efficiently.

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Andrews Raj - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President at Chain-Sys Corporation

We are satisfied with the reporting by SAP HCM.

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reviewer1338723 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Sales and Marketing at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
reviewer1466862 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Finance at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product has been very stable overall.

We've found that the solution has the capability to scale. 

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AG
Applications Specialist at Bidvest Tank Terminals

The most valuable feature is the Personnel Administration.

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reviewer1406562 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner & Founder at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I like the talent, recruitment, and learning features the most.

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AA
Executive Manager & CO. Founder at Phoenix Consulting

The most valuable features have to do with finance and payroll. Some organizations — like banking, insurance, and the government — are regulated and can not or do not want to host their critical financial data and employee data on the cloud. What we are doing right now for clients of this sort is we split the implementation to their advantage. We put financial and personal information management on-premises and the other information which is not critical — like learning, performance and setting goals — goes on cloud and we integrate those solutions. We use the cloud when data is not critical for security purposes and when it is not confidential. This can save the client money.  

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reviewer772467 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Consultant at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

The user interface is the solution's most valuable feature. It makes it easy for us to use.

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reviewer1155018 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant Application Manager at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The product overall is very good.

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reviewer1199859 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP HCM/FICO Team lead at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

All of the core processes are very valuable aspects of the solution. These include personnel, administration, organizational structure, and payroll.

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LM
Owner at Simply HR

The master data where most of the reports were run from was the most valuable. We were quite satisfied with this module.

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reviewer1194150 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a consultancy

The most valuable feature, in my view, is the level of exceptions or error messages that come back when something goes wrong. 

One of the valuable features is that it is integrated with a finance system, with journal and ledger integration. When you process, for example, payroll or costing then it can be posted directed into the finance system.

There are lots of good features, including the reporting, as long as you know what to look for.

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PD
Specialist SAP Division at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The integration between the different models like personnel administration, work management, payroll, and time management are the most valuable and key features. It's also very important to make sure that the data is correct as well, to make sure that you get the best out of the solution. 

The interface is simple to use. It is quite easy. The dashboards are also user-friendly. 

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US
Head HRM Technology at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
  • Core HR data management for employee and organizational data is very stable and flexible. 
  • Customers can create custom infotypes to store any custom data points.
  • Time/payroll management is a very stable, sturdy product.
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it_user765252 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP HCM/SuccessFactors Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  • OOB integration between different modules. 
  • SAP Payroll module is one of the best in the market and is integrated with benefits, time, etc.
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it_user516576 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Global Operations at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Breadth of services
  • Ties to enterprise Finance and Supply Chain
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it_user521961 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Chief Learning Officer at a government with 10,001+ employees
  • Ease of use
  • Improved productivity of personnel, because we use SAP for our inventory
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VS
Sr. SAP HCM Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It provides payroll solutions across the world; there is no other solution that can provide payroll calculation for more 50 countries.

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it_user472119 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP HCM and HR Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Integration with all business processes, standard features, flexibility in configuration, full scalability.

Integrating Information systems between different business processes allows in my opinion the increase of efficiency in the organization. This is because data coming from HR is directly available to other processes. Extra HR (imagine Posting of Travel Expenses, Reports on Subordinates, Hours posting to WBS Elements or different Cost Centers, Employee's Master Data as Vendors or Customers of the Company etc.)

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it_user531717 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Leader at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

The product is flexible and has periodic updates. It is supports several different functional areas in the company, such as financial, controlling, logistics, and human resources.

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it_user522975 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Project Manager at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Integration with FI and MM are the best features. The localization packages and, of late, the Rapid Deployment Solutions have proved to be immensely time saving and thus have made SAP implementations monetarily viable for the SME sector. The cloud-based package extension for SAP HCM, which is named SucessFactors, has added a new dimension to the ERP functions. Features such as SAP JAM and Apps have made SAP ERP HCM social media- and mobile-friendly.

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it_user517131 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior SAP HCM Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

SAP gives the best automation solution, which not only reduces paperwork but also with minimal manpower we can obtain maximum results. Senior management can view the current status of the organization, financial status, stock condition, sales status, etc. from one place, and can even check these things from their smart phones from anywhere in the world. This helps management take result-oriented decisions that will result in higher expected revenue, which in turn provides the best ROI from this application.

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reviewer1646067 - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Director at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We find all the features to suit our needs. 

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Buyer's Guide
SAP HCM
June 2025
Learn what your peers think about SAP HCM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2025.
861,390 professionals have used our research since 2012.