SAP SF Employee Central flashcards
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- Foundation Object
- An MDF-based object flagged as a foundation object that supports date-effective records and parent-child hierarchies; used for structures such as Company, Department, Job Code, Location, and Event Reason.
- FOCompany
- The foundation object representing the legal entity. The Company field on an employee's job assignment determines the legal employer, which drives payroll, country-specific data, and statutory reporting.
- externalCode
- The user-facing unique business key of an MDF or foundation object record. Imports and integrations reference it, while an internal system ID serves as the technical key.
- MDF object
- A Metadata Framework object defined in Configure Object Definitions. It supports custom fields, associations, workflows, and object-level security, and is the recommended framework for new custom objects.
- End-dating a foundation object
- Setting an end date on a foundation object record to retire it. Deletion is blocked while the record is referenced by employee data or by other objects.
- Association field
- An MDF field type linking a record to another object, for example Job Code to Job Family. It enforces referential integrity and drives the valid-value picker.
- Picklist Center
- The admin tool where picklist values are maintained. It supports parent-child values and country-specific restrictions that control which options appear for each country.
- Job Information
- Effective-dated employee record holding organizational assignment, including company, business unit, department, location, job code, position, pay grade, manager, FTE, and work schedule.
- Event Reason
- A foundation object value required on employee data changes. Its event type, such as hire, transfer, or termination, drives workflow routing, notifications, and downstream triggers.
- Employment object
- Holds employment-level data such as start date, original start date, seniority date, probation end date, and termination details, kept separate from job and compensation records.
- Original Start Date
- Field that preserves an employee's very first hire date across rehires, while the Employment start date reflects only the current employment period.
- Compa-ratio
- Salary divided by the midpoint of the employee's assigned pay range. A compa-ratio of 1.0 means pay equals the range midpoint.
- Range penetration
- Calculated as (salary minus range minimum) divided by (range maximum minus range minimum). It expresses an employee's position in the pay range as a percentage.
- Pay Component Recurring
- A pay component paid every payroll period, such as base salary. In Compensation Information it is stored with amount, currency, frequency, and pay group.
- Position Management
- A feature where positions are MDF objects with incumbents. When enabled, Job Information must reference a position, which controls headcount and over-hiring.
- Time Account Type
- Configuration object defining a leave plan's accrual rules, booking rules, and validity period. Each employee receives a Time Account created from it.
- Work Schedule
- Foundation object defining which weekdays are working days and the hours per day. It is assigned to employees and determines how absences consume time.
- Holiday Calendar
- Foundation object listing non-working dates. It is assigned to employees or locations so absences spanning holidays are not deducted from leave balances.
- Employee Time
- The MDF object representing a single leave request. Once approved through workflow, its hours are booked against the employee's time account.
- Time account balance
- Accrued entitlement plus manual adjustments and carry-forward, minus time taken and payouts. It is recalculated by the scheduled Recalculate Time Accounts job.
- Negative time balance
- Permitted only when the Time Account Type allows it. Otherwise a booking that exceeds the available balance is blocked when the employee submits it.
- On Save rule
- A business rule type that executes whenever the base object is saved. It is commonly used to default fields, validate data, or raise messages.
- On Change rule
- A business rule type that fires only when a specified field's value changes. This makes it efficient for conditional logic tied to one field.
- Raise Message
- A business rule action that displays an error, warning, or information message. An error blocks the save, while a warning lets the user continue.
- Permission Role
- Role-based permission container granting functional, object, and field permissions. It works with Permission Groups and Target Populations to determine what a user can access.
- Target Population
- An MDF-based definition, such as by department, location, or job code, that scopes which employees a permission group can act on.
- Field-level security
- An MDF role-based permission setting controlling read and edit access to individual fields, optionally with field criteria evaluated against the record's values.
- Payroll data replication
- Copying employee and payroll-relevant data from Employee Central to the separate SAP Employee Central Payroll system on a schedule, then monitoring the results.
- Integration Center
- An admin tool for building inbound and outbound integrations with field mapping, filters, and scheduling. It supports CSV, OData, SOAP, and SFAPI formats.
- Compound Employee API
- A SOAP API returning a full snapshot of an employee's Employee Central data model, including employment, job, compensation, and personal records, for external systems.
- Ad Hoc report
- A Report Center report type built by selecting a base object, fields, and filters. It can query MDF objects but has limited join depth.
- Operational Data Store
- The separate reporting database behind Advanced Reporting. Data is refreshed periodically rather than in real time, so reports can lag behind live employee data.