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SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Core and Position Management: Guided Implementation and Certification Preparation

A 12-week mentor-led course in which you configure SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and Position Management hands-on and prepare for the C_THR81 certification.

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    A 12-week mentor-led course in which you configure SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and Position Management hands-on and prepare for the C_THR81 certification.

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    This course is for HR and IT professionals in the Gulf who want to work as SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central consultants. You may be an HR generalist who already uses the system, an HRIS analyst, a payroll or ERP specialist moving into cloud HR, or a junior consultant who needs structured, supervised practice. No previous SAP SuccessFactors configuration experience is assumed, but you should be comfortable with HR processes and with working carefully in a business system.

    How a week works

    Each of the 12 weeks has four lessons and takes about ten hours. Every lesson follows the same pattern: you watch a short video, you receive a dataset and a scenario, you carry out the activity in the shared SAP SuccessFactors practice system, and you answer a quiz based on what the system actually shows you. Three live mentor sessions run every week on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday from 19:30 to 20:45 Dubai time, where the mentor walks through the week's activities, answers questions and reviews common mistakes. The cohort is limited to 20 learners so that everyone gets individual feedback.

    What you will learn

    • Foundation Objects, MDF foundation objects and the Corporate Data Model
    • Role-Based Permissions, permission groups, roles and target populations
    • The Succession Data Model, effective dating and country-specific data models
    • Hire, transfer, promotion and termination, with event reasons, business rules and workflows
    • Data import, validation, correction and reconciliation using the standard tools
    • Position Management: objects, hierarchy, incumbents, synchronisation and mass changes
    • Integration touchpoints, Company Structure Overview and support practices

    Four marked projects

    Your progress is assessed through four marked projects completed in the practice system: a foundation and permissions build at the end of Week 3, an employee lifecycle configuration with rules and workflows at the end of Week 6, a data migration and Position Management build at the end of Week 9, and the end-to-end implementation capstone in Week 11. Each project is marked against a rubric and returned with written mentor feedback.

    Certification preparation

    The syllabus is mapped to the topic areas of the SAP Certified Associate - Implementation Consultant - SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Core exam (C_THR81) and extends into Position Management. Week 12 is given over to two unseen practical mock assessments, a remediation clinic and a readiness review with an exam strategy session. This course is delivered independently by UpSkill Gulf and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by SAP SE. Learners register for and sit the certification exam separately.

    Course Currilcum

      • Hire to retire: core HR processes and where Employee Central fits 00:45:00
      • Navigating the system: Admin Center, People Profile and search 00:40:00
      • Implementation roles, methodology and the consultant’s toolkit 00:40:00
      • Baseline assessment: the exam blueprint and your starting point 00:50:00
      • Foundation Objects, the Corporate Data Model and MDF 00:50:00
      • Legal Entity, Business Unit, Division, Department and Location 00:55:00
      • Cost Center, Job Classification and object associations 00:50:00
      • Pay Grade, Pay Range, Pay Component and Pay Component Group 00:55:00
      • Role-Based Permissions: the model behind every screen 00:45:00
      • Permission Groups: static, dynamic and target populations 00:50:00
      • Permission Roles: granting, scoping and employee data access 00:55:00
      • Testing, troubleshooting and auditing permissions 00:50:00
      • The Succession Data Model: person and employment entities 00:55:00
      • Effective dating: history, corrections and inserting records 00:50:00
      • Country-specific data models and Manage Business Configuration 00:55:00
      • Picklists, field properties and configuring fields in practice 00:45:00
      • Add New Employee: the hire wizard from identity to compensation 00:55:00
      • Transfers and job changes: Take Action and job information history 00:50:00
      • Promotions, pay changes and compensation information 00:50:00
      • Termination, leave of absence and rehire 00:50:00
      • Event Reasons and events: the engine behind every change 00:45:00
      • Business rules: scenarios, triggers and the rule engine 01:00:00
      • Workflow configuration: approvers, dynamic roles and dynamic groups 00:55:00
      • Workflow lifecycle, alerts, escalation and troubleshooting rules 00:50:00
      • Import and Export Data: loading MDF and foundation data 00:50:00
      • Import Employee Data: sequence, templates and incremental loads 01:00:00
      • Validation and correction: the Check Tool and Manage Data 00:50:00
      • Reconciliation, reporting and data purge basics 00:45:00
      • Why positions? Position Management concepts and use cases 00:45:00
      • The Position object and Position Management Settings 00:55:00
      • Position hierarchy, the Position Org Chart and reporting lines 00:50:00
      • Configuring position fields, permissions and position rules 00:55:00
      • Position lifecycle: create, fill, vacate and close 00:50:00
      • Incumbents, shared positions, FTE and right to return 00:50:00
      • Position-to-job synchronisation and hierarchy adaptation 00:55:00
      • Mass position changes, imports and position-driven rules 00:55:00
      • Integration Center basics and the integration landscape 00:50:00
      • Employee Central Payroll touchpoints: an overview 00:45:00
      • Company Structure Overview and organisational visualisation 00:40:00
      • Support practices: release cycles, incidents and change control 00:45:00
      • Capstone stage 1: scope the requirements and design the solution 01:00:00
      • Capstone stage 2: build the configuration 01:00:00
      • Capstone stage 3: test, reconcile and fix 00:55:00
      • Capstone stage 4: demonstrate, document and hand over 00:50:00
      • Mock assessment 1: Employee Central Core practical 01:00:00
      • Mock assessment 2: Position Management and end-to-end practical 01:00:00
      • Remediation clinic: closing your gaps 00:50:00
      • Readiness review and exam strategy 00:45:00
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