ESS/MSS Global Implimentation

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Hi Gurus,
     What do I need to consider, If we do Global ESS/MSS implimenation? Please advice.
Regards
Francis

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Francis Smithe wrote:
> Hi Gurus,
>      What do I need to consider, If we do Global ESS/MSS implimenation? Please advice.
>
> Regards
> Francis
The number of countries you implement definitely impacts ESS fairly heavily.  Certain ESS applications are country specific, such as the personal data editing, so the more countries you have, the more involved your ESS implementation will be.  A simple example I just encountered at our client is for benefits enrollment in the US you can choose your smoker status (smoker, non-smoker).  The default canada screen from SAP did not have the same field available, although it was needed for the customers benefit election process so they had to customize the canada screen.  each process for each country would have to validated to your needs. 
Than for MSS - everything is fairly global, one application from SAP.  However, the proceses on your side may not be truly global. 
Say for intance you go-live with Time approval for vacation and sick days.  you may only have that live for US managers, and not for other countries.  Than you need to decide if you will explicity hide the time application from non-us managers.  and can you even hide, because what if you have non-us managers that may have US employees and non-us employees? 
If you need to "separate" MSS functionality, based on what is live for certain countries, it will be custom development.  This same questioning should be applied to each MSS process you consider going live with. 
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