Online Course
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Core: Objects, Permissions, Configuration, and Automation for Personnel Administration
with Faisal Iqbal
04/30/2026 – 05/14/2026
The course in detail:
Personnel administration sits at the core of your Employee Central setup. Master the essential settings that organize your personnel and company data and feed into your HRIS and talent management processes. First configure and maintain foundation objects to reflect your company’s organizational, job, and pay structures. Then customize your employee data elements—including people profile layout and field attributes—so you can maintain them throughout the employee lifecycle. Use self-services, workflows, and business rules to accelerate and automate your admin processes!
What you'll learn:
- Model succession and corporate data for foundation objects and HR data configuration
- Deploy Admin Center tools to configure foundation and generic objects, people profiles, and other HRIS elements
- Configure workflows and business rules to automate your HR processes
- Maintain company and employee data, including adding new records and editing existing ones
🕒 The courses start at 10 a.m. ET and end at 2:30 p.m. ET, breaks included.
Who is this Employee Central course suitable for?
- Functional consultants
- Project teams and leads
- IT and HR administrators
- Select employees and managers
Prerequisite: Attendees should have basic knowledge of SAP solutions. If you need more information about the learning level, please feel free to ask us.
These Employee Central topics will be covered in this course:
- Foundation objects
- Company data
- Role-based permissions
- Data models
- Picklists
- Corporate data
- Succession data
- Employee data
- Data import and changes
- Workflows
- Self-services
- Business rules
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Online Courses
Configure Foundation Objects and Company Data
Dive into core Employee Central! Configure your foundation and generic objects, and then maintain your organizational, job, and pay data in the system.
Topics:
- System and roles
- Role-based permissions
- Basic configuration
- Picklists
- Foundation objects
- XML-based objects
- MDF-based objects
- Corporate data maintenance
Model Succession Data and Employee Data
Configure your employee file layout and field attributes. Once you set up permissions for Employee Central effective-dated entities and employee data, you’ll learn how to add new hires, update their employment records, and import your employee data.
Topics:
- Employee data
- People profile
- Data model
- Non-effective data
- Employee data maintenance
- Data import and changes
Leverage Self-Services, Workflows, and Business Rules
Streamline personnel administration with Employee Central! Dig in to Employee Self-Services and Manager Self-Services, and configure and use workflows and business rules to your advantage.
Topics:
- Participants
- Notifications
- Employee self-service
- Manager self-service
- Business rules
- Implementation workbooks
- Methodology and tools
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Your Experts
Faisal Iqbal is an SAP authorized trainer. Skilled and experienced in training design, development, and delivery, he supports SAP partners and customers in user enablement and solution adoption activities across SAP SuccessFactors modules. After spending 17 years in different HCM project and support roles, he began delivering onsite and remote training programs to SAP system integrators, large customers, and public sector organizations.
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