ESS/MSS

By
ManikyaRaju.Potnuru

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INTRODUCTION
Employee Self-Service (ESS) enables employees to create, display, and change
their own data in the intranet used at their enterprise. By enabling employees to
access their own data, HR processes are standardized and simplified. As a
result, employees in the Human Resources Department can concentrate on other
tasks of greater strategic importance.
If employees need to access their own data in the intranet used at the enterprise,
they require an SAP user. The system needs to know which ESS user belongs to
which employee because employees must only be able to maintain their own
data. The component enables you to create relationships between employees
and users
Employee Self-Service and Manager Self-Service Business Processes
Using Employee Self-Service (ESS), employees maintain their personal information
and they control many administrative transactions and other processes normally
handled by the Human Resources staff. The goal is to streamline approval
processes and tasks like viewing vacation time, or choosing benefits. SAP ESS
not only grants better access to personal data, it also informs employees of
changes in life and work events by integrating applications with support
information.

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Manager Self-Service

Manager Self-Service application includes a variety of work sets -- business

packages that contain all the tools and information needed to perform management
tasks, such as monitoring budgets or hiring personnel. These work sets support
decentralized, best-practice work processes, and they can be integrated and used to
support one or more roles.

Manager Self-Service (MSS) provides all your employees who perform management
tasks at an operative level with the applications and services that they need to
perform their tasks. It also provides managers with centralized access to all important
data and information for their particular area of responsibility.

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Enterprise Portal Structure

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Single Sign On

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Portal Applications –Overview of Available Portal Applications

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Portal Layout

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 Basic Human Capital Management Customizing Settings- Define
Resources
HCM Home Page Frame Work-Overview
Configuration- Define Resources.
General Description
• In this IMG activity, We define resources ,to be used in area group pages and
area pages.
Purpose
The Home Page frame work the following service types
• ITS (Internet Transaction Server) based service
• WebDynpro Application.
• In addition to these entries we need to enter PCD page that starts a service in
the SAP Enterprise portal.
For example:
• The service that lets employees display and change their skills profile is a
Web Dynpro application and is also a service in ESS MSS.

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 IMG Activity
SPRO>Personnel
Management >Employee Self
Service >General Settings>
Home Page For Self-services
> Resources

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Define Area Group Pages

Overview
• Area Group Pages contains
description of areas .
Purpose
• We need to define atleast one
area group page.

IMG Activity SPRO>Personnel

Management >Employee Self
Service >General Settings> Home
Page For Self-services > Headers
and Area group pages>Define
Area group pages.

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Define Area

General Description
• Area pages contain services (web
applications) that are related to each other.
Employee’s access an area page from an
area group page.
Purpose
• We need to define atleast one area page.
Example: We define an area page for all
services in working time area like record
working times, leave request and so on.

• IMG Activity SPRO>Personnel Management

>Employee Self Service >General Settings>
Home Page For Self-services > Areas
>Define Areas

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 Define Sub Areas

General Description
• Areas and subareas can be
compared to headings and
subheadings in a document.
Purpose
• We use subareas to group services
that belong to the area on the
screen.

• IMG Activity SPRO>Personnel

Management >Employee Self
Service >General Settings> Home
Page For Self-services >
Subareas>Define Subareas

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Assign Areas to Area Group Pages

General Description
• We assign an area to area group page
and define its page.
Purpose
• If we want to hide an area on area
group page we give the position as 0

• IMG Activity SPRO>Personnel

Management >Employee Self Service
>General Settings> Home Page For
Self-services > Areas >Assign areas to
Area group pages.

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Assign Sub areas to Areas

General Description
• We assign subareas to areapages and
define their position.
Purpose
• If we want to hide a subarea on an
area page then the position should be
set to 0.

• IMG Activity SPRO>Personnel

Management >Employee Self Service
>General Settings> Home Page For
Self-services > Subareas>Assign
Subareas to Areas.

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Define Services

General Description
• In this activity we define the services
(web applications) that are to appear
on the area pages.
Purpose
• We define services to be used in
areapage and subarea.

IMG Activity SPRO>Personnel

Management >Employee Self Service
>General Settings> Home Page For
Self-services > Services >Define
Services.

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Assign Services to Sub Areas

General Description
• We assign each service to a subarea
and define its position.
Purpose
• If we want to hide a service in the
subarea that has been delivered by
SAP we will enter the position as 0.

IMG Activity SPRO>Personnel

Management >Employee Self Service
>General Settings> Home Page For
Self-services > Services Assign
services to Subareas

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Working Time

General Description
• We specify the group of employee for
which we want special rules for web
applications to apply.
Purpose
• To determine the number of rule
groups required we need to find out
how many different groups of
employees in our enterprise require
different customizing settings for the
applications
IMG Activity SPRO>Personnel
Management >Employee Self Service
specific settings > Processing
Processes > Create Rule Groups

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WEBMO Feature

General Description
• This feature is used in customizing for
the web application to store different
regulations for employee groups
Purpose
• The return value of the feature is the
eight digit alphanumeric rule group
customizing tables in web environment

IMG Activity SPRO>Personnel

Management > Employee Self-Service
>Service Specific Settings >Working
Time > Leave Request > Processing
Processes > Create Rule Groups
>Adjust WEBMO feature

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Define Processing Processes for each rule group

General Description
In this activity we define processing
processes that are valid for all types of
leave that are requested using the web
applications.
Purpose
• In the check including unposted
request specify whether you want
requests that have not yet been
posted.
• In the remaining leave without
unposted requests specifies whether
you want time account statuses to be
calculated without taking account of
requests that have not yet been
posted.
• In the determine next agent field
specifies whether and how you want to
determine the next agent of a request
that has to be approved or forwarded
for information.

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IMG Activity SPRO>Personnel Management >Employee Self Service
specific settings > Processing Processes> Define Processing Processes
for Each Rule Group

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Specify Processing Processes for Types of
Leave

General Description
• We use this activity to specify which
absence types are displayed in team
calendar, overview of leave etc…
Purpose
• We specify which types of leave are
displayed in the Leave request Web
Application and which can be
processed. We specify how the
absences are to be processed.
IMG Activity SPRO>Personnel
Management >Employee Self Service
specific settings > Processing
Processes> Specify Processing
Processes for Types of Leave.

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Specify Processing Processes for Types of
Leave

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Specify Processing Processes for Types of
Leave

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Layout of the Web Application

General Description
• In this activity we define for each rule
group how far into the past we want
the web application to display
absences
Purpose
• Enter the required display rule for each
group.

IMG Activity SPRO>Personnel

Management >Employee Self
Service specific settings >Layout
for web application> Specify How
Leave Is Displayed and Default
Values.

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Layout of the Web Application

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Specify Display of Absence quota

General Description
• In this activity we specify how your
employee’s absence quotas are
displayed in the web application.
Purpose
• The settings that we make here also
apply to the display of time accounts in
the Leave Request and approve leave
requests web applications.
IMG Activity SPRO>Personnel
Management >Employee Self
Service specific settings >Layout
for web application> Specify How
Leave Is Displayed and Default
Values.

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Team Calendar

General Description
• In this activity we specify which team
members you want to be displayed in
your team calendar.
Purpose
• We define the selection of employees
to be displayed for the various
applications areas of the team
calendar in MSS and the leave request
web application.
• If we use the MSS or ESS
components at our enterprise, we will
use the view groups.
• They are based on organizational
assignments.
IMG Activity SPRO>IMG Activity
SPRO>Personnel Management
>Employee Self Service specific
settings >Working Time >Team
Calendar

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Define Layout of Team Calendar

General Description
• We make settings for the team
calendar that is displayed in the web
application.
Purpose
• The team calendar displays all team
members’ absences which simplifies
the scheduling of absences.
IMG Activity SPRO>IMG Activity
SPRO>Personnel Management
>Employee Self Service specific
settings >Working Time >Team
Calendar

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Own Data

General Description
• We make the setting for the user
interfaces for the services in the
personnel information area.
• For each country the table contains
the infotypes, active subtypes and the
relevant use case for the personal
information service area. you can
define which subtypes are to be active
for each infotype and which can be
changed by the employees.
Purpose
• By defining “use case” you control
which kinds of data records your
employees are permitted to create.
IMG Activity SPRO>Personnel
Management >Employee Self Service
>General Settings> Home Page For
Self-services > Service Specific
Settings >Own Date > Define Active
Subtypes and Application Case.

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Own Data

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