HR/IT to follow along

What do SAP ESS and MSS offer, and what happens to your self-services under SuccessFactors? Explore processes, benefits and migration options.

Generic text, perfectly lit images, and interchangeable promises: It has never been easier to produce professional-looking content in no time at all. With the help of artificial intelligence, entire campaigns, career websites, and employer-branding copy can be created in just a few minutes. As our two moderators, Aline Schneefeld and Jakob Osman, already emphasized in our DGFP webinar on this topic: This is precisely where a growing challenge lies.

Learn how SAP SuccessFactors supports EU pay transparency, gender pay gap reporting, salary bands and compliant recruitment ahead of 2027.

SAP Employee Central Payroll combines SAP’s proven payroll engine with Employee Central as the central HR master data system. This guide explains how ECP works, what differentiates it from an S/4HANA payroll migration and which technical, organisational and data-related requirements companies should address before starting an ECP project.

Whether on-premise, cloud, or hybrid: SAP Time Management is undergoing a major shift. Caught between compliance pressures, the end of mainstream maintenance, and cloud migrations, HR and IT must jointly decide how working hours will be tracked, evaluated, and managed in the future. Discover which SAP option fits your system landscape, where hybrid scenarios offer the most realistic migration path, and when a dedicated workforce management tool is the better choice.

Whether recruiting, onboarding, or compensation, Position Management in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central creates a unified database, intelligently links modules, and enables automated workflows. Learn how companies can gain transparency, optimize HR processes, and support strategic decisions with data-driven insights.

Employer Branding doesn’t start on LinkedIn – it starts within.

Strong employer brands aren’t built through glossy campaigns but through authentic culture. In times of talent shortages and shifting work values, honesty beats image. Discover how real stories, genuine leadership, and lived values turn companies into true employer brands.

What Netflix, Spotify, and Amazon have long perfected is now becoming a game changer in recruiting: hyper-personalization. AI-powered candidate journeys, smart chatbots, and personalized career websites ensure that applicants feel understood—and that companies find the right talent faster. Find out why “one-size-fits-all” is no longer viable in recruiting and how AI is paving the way for genuine, personalized experiences.

Industrial companies are under enormous pressure: digitalization, skills shortages, volatile markets, and new generations with changing expectations. While HR has long been a strategic partner in many organizations, one area is often left out – production. Yet manufacturing employees are the backbone of value creation. It is time to think strategically about HR in this area too.

The year 2024 marked a phase of consolidation, realignment, and strategic repositioning for the German business travel market. The latest VDR Business Travel Analysis offers compelling insights into how the industry has evolved following the pandemic-driven disruption - highlighting clear trends, emerging challenges, and promising opportunities for Travel & Expense Management in Germany.

German industry is rapidly advancing digitalization: production lines are being automated, machines connected via IoT platforms, and workflows optimized through cloud applications. In many factories, machines now operate with an efficiency that was unthinkable just a few years ago—but this technological progress is increasingly hitting an unexpected bottleneck: a shortage of qualified skilled labor.

Constant availability, endless meetings, hardly any breaks: the digital world of work brings challenges that many companies still underestimate. Anyone who wants to digitize healthily today must consider the digital well-being of their employees—and promote it in a targeted manner. Here, we explain how SAP HCM can contribute specifically to measuring, shaping, and sustainably anchoring digital well-being in everyday working life—from smart working time management to mindfulness and leadership culture.