SAP HCM Reviews

My primary use case for the solution was managing employee data and handling all payroll-related operations. It included managing employees from their entry into the company until their exit and resolving any errors within the system.

The product significantly improved our organization by automating many processes, which reduced paperwork and provided clearer, more accurate goals and competencies. 

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.

The product could be improved in terms of cost. Additionally, having a reliable support partner who thoroughly understands our needs and can promptly address issues would enhance the overall user experience.

I have worked with the SAP HCM solution for five years.

The product is stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

Our experience with customer service and support was moderate. While the support provided by the vendor was helpful to some extent, some areas required improvement in terms of understanding our specific needs and providing timely solutions.

We are planning to switch to a local program due to financial constraints.

The initial setup was straightforward. We followed the guide and translated our company's needs into the system, making the process smooth and manageable.

We implemented the solution with the assistance of a vendor team.

The product is expensive. 

SAP HCM is a powerful program that can greatly benefit organizations with its comprehensive features and integrations. However, companies should be mindful of the costs and ensure they have the necessary support infrastructure.

I rate it a nine. 

We use SAP HCM for recruitment and payment modeling features.

It is a valuable product that helps our company organize payment structure, recruitment, and talent management.

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

The product's license is very expensive.

I have been working with SAP HCM for seven years.

It is a stable platform. I rate the stability an eight.

Our organization has 300 SAP HCM users working from the finance, administration, HR, and engineering departments. I rate the scalability a seven or eight. It is a scalable product.

The technical support team is responsive.

Neutral

We also use SAP S/4HANA, a business suite product from SAP. It enables financial, controlling, and material management.

I am a technical expert, and thus, it is very simple to install for me. They have documentation to refer to. However, configuring HR processes, including reporting and workflow features, can be challenging. The deployment depends on the number of employees. It takes around three to six months to complete the process. We have a team of three technical executives. One resource can maintain the product. SAP also provides support to each customer for maintaining the application. They release updates every year.

The product generates a return on investment with the capability to develop and manage the talent in the company. It helps with detecting talent, employee rotation, and managing resources. We can make a decision on employee retention using SAP HCM.

It is an expensive platform. The pricing depends upon the specific model and number of user accounts included in a bundle. The licenses for 1000 users might be less expensive than licenses for 100 users. We have to pay around 20% of the license cost for maintenance and support services for two years.

I recommend SAP HCM to others. It is a very useful application that can centralize the management system. We can integrate it with S/4HANA for financial features.

I rate it an eight out of ten. I would not rate it a nine as it requires specific change management and deployment training. It is a new application, and users need to familiarize themselves with the functionality.

With SAP HCM, decision-making is very helpful. Every data that's related to our employees is stored in the solution. We are an organization of over 2,000 employees, and the solution has helped to maintain a database for everyone.

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

SAP HCM's long and tedious transactions can be improved.

We have been working with SAP HCM since 2004.

We have never faced any stability issues with SAP HCM. We have an on-premises system and never faced any server issues or technical glitches.

SAP HCM is a scalable solution.

SAP HCM's technical support was on point. I appreciate that every data we wanted, every help, reconfiguration, or customization we wanted in the system, happened as soon as the request was made.

Positive

The system is now becoming outdated because it involves all the transactions and is very detail-oriented. We want to move towards the cloud solution they're offering.

The solution's maintenance happens weekly for us because we have a lot of customizations done in the system. We're directly in contact with the SAP facilitation team, and they do it for us, the local partners in Pakistan.

Before choosing SAP HCM, users should consider the transaction time, how the data is being configured, and how the data or report generation comes out for them.

Overall, I rate SAP HCM an eight out of ten.

We have different structures dealing with the enterprise, starting with enterprise structure, employee structure, payroll structure, and other structures in SAP Human Capital Management. We make these structures in SAP HCM and deal with organizational management and other information related to personnel administration, management, payroll, and personal actions. HR deals with different master and permanent data aspects. The administration aspects, the different functionalities, and the processing features in the personnel administration are necessary to define default values and business authorizations like decision-making. Other use cases include personnel calculation rules and different schemas, sub-schemas, rules, recruitment, e-recruitment, and time management, including positive and negative time management. SAP HCM is also important for payroll processes, including country-specific payroll. Training for event management is also a sub-module to prepare candidates for training events and event management, booking events at the company's internal cost. SAP HCM also covers employee and manager services. Along with that, integration interfaces, and human resources are reporting.

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

What cannot be facilitated through the product's standard functions can be done through development. Success factors also come into the picture in the new cloud management aspect and integrations. For instance, S/4HANA. The two aspects are development, with reports, interfaces, conversion, enhancement, prompts, and smart forms. The reporting aspect covers employee and manager self-service, anything the employee can do. Then there are already success factors for the cloud solution which cannot be integrated into S/4 HANA.

I have worked with SAP HCM for about ten years.

The solution is stable.

The solution has chain management, so it is scalable and climbing up. Some of my clients are smaller and medium-sized businesses, while others are enterprises.

The initial setup is not difficult. The time we take to deploy the solution depends purely on the project's scope, size, and budget. On average, it could take one to two years, but sometimes it can take longer or less time.

I have seen a return on investment. In the long run, I need to check the depreciation. After calculating the depreciation on the cost of this solution, I can count the return on investment. Based on what the client invested in the project, SAP HCM is stretching as per their business process while minimizing their wastage. And as per the decision-making, clients can save a lot of revenue.

The solution is cheap. Suppose a client can afford to purchase their software and hardware on-premises, even if it's expensive. In that case, that's okay because they can afford their agenda, which is an on-premises installation for security. And some clients who cannot afford the same, but allocate it to a business expansion, can choose either a private cloud or public cloud, sometimes operating in a hybrid mode. Some clients can pay a subscription if they want to go for a certain route.

Now and then, SAP changes as per the requirement. Earlier, it was ECC, and some clients still run on databases with limited aspect software. In 2012, they came up with S/4HANA. I'm comfortable with the previous one and the new one, S/4HANA, including on-prem and on the cloud.

I rate the solution a ten out of ten because clients have received a return on investment.

It didn't go live with it.

Sap HCM is not a flexible solution to meet our requirements.

There are several issues with GuI, and it's not easy to use. Additionally, it requires a significant amount of configuration, and we haven't been able to find anyone who can meet our specific data configuration needs. But the major issue it's a really old fashion app. We are in 2023, there is no need to use an app that looks like this.

It's been around two years now. We already had SAP in our company, and we already were working with a partner to finalize all the configurations, but it didn't succeed. So it's not working yet.

It is a pretty stable solution.

It is a scalable solution. For other modules, it's around 100 to 200 users in my company. We had 12 administrators.

The customer service and support team is okay for all modules. But for HCM, we couldn't find a dedicated consultant to assist us.

Negative

It was difficult to deploy. However, it has already been deployed, but there were challenges regarding configurations and implementation. So, we had a lot of issues.

The setup took around one year. Because configuration included our requirements and making the rules, ensuring compliance with insurance rules and governance tools. It's like insurance policies in Egypt or something similar that may affect the SAP HCM system.

The pricing is really high. Compared to Odoo, it's very high. However, if you already have the other modules, it's okay. But SAP will cost you a lot of money.

We are looking to switch to Odoo. It seems easy to use. It is very, very easy to use and configure according to our requirements.

I don't recommend implementing SAP HCM. It's not good at all. Overall, I would rate the solution a three out of ten. It is primarily due to complexity, configuration, and pricing. 

SAP HCM is used by our clients for all their business processes, such as HR, finance, procurement, and supply chains.

SAP HCM has a good performance.

SAP HCM could improve by having more resources and making it more user-friendly. It is complex.

I have been using SAP HCM for approximately 20 years.

The stability of SAP HCM is good.

SAP HCM is a scalable solution.

We have over 20 clients using this solution.

The support services are not good for SAP HCM. It could be faster.

I have previously used other solutions, such as Oracle.

The initial implementation of SAP HCM is complicated. It's complicated for users and for implementers. It took a lot of time to do the implementation. For example, to do the complete UK payroll implementation, can take approximately nine months.

The amount of people we need to support the solution depends on the project, but per client support, you need approximately 10 people to support one client.

The cost of SAP HCM is high, the license should be reduced. SAP HCM has a lot of hidden costs.

There are two people have to do before implementing SAP HCM. One is the license cost. SAP HCM has a lot of hidden costs. They charge per module, they should be aware of what exactly they are going to use. They have to be clear about whether SAP HCM is a good solution for them or possibly another one, such as Oracle.

I rate SAP HCM a seven out of ten.

We use the product for benefits and payroll. 

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. 

SAP HCM cannot integrate with other third-party applications. One of the drawbacks we encounter with SAP HCM, specifically in payroll management, is the limitation regarding changing payroll areas within the same month. For instance, if an employee transitions from staff to non-staff status during the month, we face difficulties because the system doesn't allow us to change the payroll. 

We encounter issues related to employee repatriation, especially when individuals return within a two-year timeframe. The system sometimes picks up previously processed data, complicating the repatriation process. As a result, we often have to find workarounds to address these issues. These challenges may stem from our system configuration, but we're still investigating to determine the exact cause.

I have been using the product since 2014. 

I don't always find SAP HCM to be stable. Sometimes we encounter issues that we thought were resolved, but they resurface. It may be due to our configuration, but we do experience these issues from time to time.

We use SAP SuccessFactors for recruitment and performance marketing. 

The tool's deployment and installation can be complex because numerous adjustments are required to tailor it to our needs. For instance, when processing education grants, it takes considerable time to customize SAP to suit our purposes due to our various requirements.

Maintaining SAP is generally manageable, but we sometimes need assistance from external contractors to handle tasks that we cannot manage internally.

I find the reporting satisfactory. The quality of reports depends on the data input, particularly the master data. However, I am optimistic about transitioning to newer tools like SuccessFactors, which can integrate with other systems outside SAP. I rate the tool a seven out of ten. 

SAP HCM helps maintain employee records, payroll, timesheet management, etc. 

The tool's best feature is SAP SuccessFactors. 

SAP HCM needs to improve its UI. 

I have been working with the product for seven to eight years. 

Oracle HCM is stable; I rate it a seven out of ten. 

The solution is scalable, and my company has more than 40,000 users for it. 

We inform our in-house technical team about the issues. 

Positive

SAP HCM is easy to maintain, and I rate it a nine out of ten.