
HR digitalisation case study
Payroll migration from SAP to SAP (4500 employees)
Country: Germany
Industry: Telecommunications, Manufacturing
Company: GmbH, €10.9 billion revenue, ~14,000 employees
Team: 8 FTE
Duration: 10 Months
Scope: Post-merger migration of payroll accounting for 4500 employees
Initial situation:
>>> After acquiring a company, the payroll processing for 4500 employees should be migrated from the separate SAP HCM system of the acquired company to the buyer's SAP HCM system.
Project:
>>> Analysis of HCM SAP Systems (OM, PA, PT, PY) with regard to configuration and infotypes
>>> Review & consolidation of ~600 wage types
>>> Requirements management towards the implementation partner
>>> Definition and execution of acceptance tests
>>> Parallel billing old/new system
>>> Planning the go-live process and switchover including notification to social security systems
>>> Information management towards the affected employees
Project result
>>> Error-free execution of the first payroll calculations
>>> Temporary retention of the old system for potential retrospective accounting or archiving >>> Consolidation of all employee data in one system
Added value for the company / ROI
>>> Reduction in the number of HR systems
>>> Reducing operating and support costs




