The Recruitment component contains an entire range of powerful, flexible functions that you can use to implement an effective – and largely automated – recruitment strategy. You can use the Recruitment component to recruit human resources according to requirements, at any time. You can increase the number of applicants available to your enterprise, and include them in the selection procedure for vacancies, by advertising for personnel (using job advertisements, for example) or by receiving unsolicited applications. You can store applicants that you have not deemed suitable for a particular vacancy in the Applicant Pool, where they can be considered for other or future vacancies.

SAP Time Management is extensively used by the human resources and admin departments in enterprises for better time tracking and management across departments. Time recording is one of the crucial requirements for every organization because along with work the amount of time invested is also important. A tracking recording system in place helps you to record the timings for employees based on which other related tasks like compensation, payroll, incentives, OTs etc. are calculated.

SAP Payroll, functions provide the high-level logic for payroll calculations. Functions perform general processing – such as calculating payroll taxes on a given set of wages, reading wagetypes from specific infotypes, calculating benefits premiums, and storing the results of the payroll calculation. SAP Payroll is the basic, fundamental meaning and usage of payroll schemas, rules, wagetypes and their associated processes.

Benefits Administration streamline your administrative activities, helping you to cut costs. By implementing Employee Self-Services, for example, you can minimize the volume of paperwork and inquiries handled by your benefits staff, while at the same time increasing the accuracy of your data. Benefits Administration, benefits staff and executives have direct access to structured benefits data to assist them in their analytical tasks.

Organizational Management (OM) processes are processes that are started for organizational object types (with application type Personnel Development (PD)), like organizational units, positions, and jobs. With a standard (Personnel Administration (PA)) process, you use the object type employee to start a process. In an organizational management process, you use the object types job, position, or organizational unit to start a process.

The Training and Event Management component has a wide range of powerful functions to enable you to plan and manage all kinds of business events from training events to conventions simply and efficiently. Its flexible reporting and appraisal functions provide you with important decision support feedback to ensure that the business events you offer are both high quality and effective. Training and Event Management is an integral part of SAP HR and has interfaces to all of the relevant SAP application components, making it a basis for extending and updating your employees' skills and knowledge.