E-Recruiting Multiple Employment

Question

Hi all,
I am about to start a project implementing e-recruiting with Enhancement Pack 4 and I was wondering if anyone knew if there are any improvements to the handling of multiple/concurrent employees?
I have found a presentation from SAP which stated that in EHP4 there would be "Improved concurrent and global employment handling". However I have not seen anything like this in the release notes.
Has anyone implemented this or does anyone know any more detail about the changes?
Thanks
Tom

Answer 1

Hello,
Below is the detailed explanation from SAP regarding CE.
ALE - Inbound Processing and Concurrent Employment (New)
As of SAP E-Recruiting, Enhancement Package 4 (ERECRUIT 604), Business Function HCM, SAP E-Recruiting 2, the ALE inbound processing has changed. The ALE distribution is now based on the inbound processing of HR master data with integration to the Business Partner.
In the standard system, SAP delivers the implementation HRRCF00_INBD_NEWMOD of the BAdI HRALE00INBOUND_IDOC ( HR-CA-ALE: Inbound Processing for HR Master Data). The implementation is based on the HR-ALE pre-implementation EnhancedDistribution. This Enhanced Distribution is responsible for all HR master data and data for the Business Partner. In the standard system, the implementation HRRCF00_INBD_NEWMOD uses the method PROCESS_IDOC to delete all relationships between positions and persons from the inbound IDocs as well. Instead of the Person (object type P), the system assigns the Central Person (object type CP) to the Position (object type S).
SAP E-Recruiting uses the POST_PROCESS_IDOC method to perform the specific IDOC processing. In doing so, the system creates new candidates (object type NA) from the IDOC data and/or updates information for the candidate.
Concurrent Employment
The change to ALE inbound processing enables you to use SAP E-Recruiting even when Concurrent Employment is active in the connected HR system. SAP E-Recruiting then behaves as follows:
u2022     If an employee has multiple work contracts in the HR system, then a Candidate (NA) object is created in SAP E-Recruiting with the assigned objects Central Person (CP) and Business Partner (BP). All work contracts are accessible via the candidate.
u2022     In the case of Concurrent Employment, an internal candidate is regarded as active if at least one of the candidate's work contracts is active.
To be able to use Concurrent Employment, SAP E-Recruiting requires a decoupled infotype framework in the underlying HR system.
Effects on Existing Data
Once you have activated the business function, the system no longer executes the coding of the two implementations that were previously relevant for ALE distribution.
u2022     BAdI: HRALE00SPLIT_INBOUND, BAdI implementation HR_INB_PROCESS_IDOC
u2022     BAdI: HRALE00INBOUND_IDOC, BAdI implementation HRRCF00_DELETE_SPREL
This also means that any user-defined implementations of the BAdIs cannot be executed any more. If necessary, you have to create a new implementation for the BAdI HRALE00INBOUND_IDOC by using the implementation HRRCF00_INBD_NEWMOD.
The BAdI HRALE00SPLIT_INBOUND is no longer supported. To use the new ALE distribution, you have to deactivate the previous implementations of the BAdI. Before you activate the business function, you must repair any incomplete data records that were created during the previous data distribution. Otherwise, you have to perform ALE distribution for the data of the affected persons once again with the new distribution method.
If you activate Concurrent Employment (system parameter RECFA RECCE) and there are different instances (standalone scenario), you must execute again the ALE distribution for the candidates already available in the system for whom an entry exists in the table T77RCF_P_STAT (Bookmark Employee Status Based on HR Data).
Effects on Customizing
The conversion of the ALE inbound processing affects the following Customizing activities:
u2022     For more information, see Customizing for SAP E-Recruiting under Technical Settings -> SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) Integration -> Software Runs on Different Instances -> Set Up ALE Distribution for SAP E-Recruiting.
u2022     In the Customizing activity BAdI: Inbound Processing for HR Master Data, you activate the implementation HRRCF00_INBD_NEWMOD of the BAdI HRALE00INBOUND_IDOC or a user-defined implementation.
u2022     The ALE distribution is based on the inbound processing of HR master data with integration to the business partner; in other words, you must have the business partner integration switched on. For this, you have entered "X" for the system switch HRALX HRAC (Activate HR Integration) and "ON" for the system switch HRALX OBPON (Integration O-BP Activated) in the HR system. You have also activated the implementation CONV_HR_DATA_TO_EREC of the BAdI HRSYNC_P.
Activation of Concurrent Employment in SAP E-Recruiting affects the following Customizing
activities:
u2022     You use the system parameter RECFA RECCE (Concurrent Employment Active in ERecruiting System) to activate Concurrent Employment. You make this setting in Customizing under Technical Settings -> Set System Parameters.
u2022     For more information about Concurrent Employment for SAP E-Recruiting, see Customizing under Technical Settings -> SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) Integration -> General Notes for Concurrent Employment.