Integrating SAP and Kronos

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Leverage the Value of Your SAP Investment

Your SAP® environment is the high-performance backbone of your organization’s IT

infrastructure. But did you know that Kronos®, the leading provider of workforce management
solutions, can empower you to extend the capabilities of your SAP ERP investment with our
Key benefits Workforce Central® suite, using SAP-Certified Integration? It’s true.
When you use the
SAP-Certified
Integration for Kronos Get the Kronos SAP-Certified Integration advantage
Workforce Central v6.1: SAP-Certified Integration for Workforce Central v6.1, supported by both Kronos and SAP,
is the solution for customers seeking to integrate SAP ERP 6 and Workforce Central v6.1.
• Your investment in This solution uses a new SAP ERP Connector, available in Kronos Workforce Integration
SAP ERP technology is Manager™ (WIM) v6.1, as well as a set of SAP-certified templates supporting common
protected and safe integration scenarios.

• You get simplified inte-

gration with SAP Human
Capital Management
• You get simplified integra-
tion with SAP Production
Planning
• You can use Web Services
to ease integration and
interoperability
Features and benefits
Features of the new SAP-Certified Integration offering include integration templates1
supporting SAP Human Capital Management (HCM) and Production Planning (PP). Combined
with the use of standardized Web Services, these features make integration efforts simpler
and reduce the time it takes IT to give users access to shared data between systems. In effect,
using an integrated SAP-Kronos solution, there becomes only a single source of information
to maintain. Saving you time and money.
SAP-certified templates for SAP HCM simplify the integration with Kronos Workforce
Timekeeper™ v.6.1. So you can easily:

• Send cost centers from SAP ERP to Workforce Central labor levels

• Send employee demographics from SAP ERP to Workforce Central person records

• Send payroll data from Workforce Timekeeper to SAP ERP

SAP-Certified Integration Architecture

Interface
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XML API

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SAP PP Module e Workforce
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SAP Platform/ e (WIM)
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SAP Landscape Workforce Central Applications

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 emplates are generic links or interfaces that can be used as a starting point to simplify and speed integration efforts. In
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all cases, a template file must be customized for use in a specific customer installation.
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SAP-certified templates for SAP PP simplify the integration of Kronos SAP-Certified Integration specifications
Workforce Activities™ v6.1. So you can easily: SAP-Certified Integration for Workforce Central v6.1 requires WIM
• Send Production Orders and associated operations from v6.1.5 or higher, which is available in Workforce Central v6.1.5
SAP ERP to Workforce Activities. You can even set up and higher. WIM is not available in Workforce Connect v6.0.
these templates to run in real time. SAP-Certified Integration requirements:
• Send Activity Events from Workforce Activities to SAP • Supports SAP templates:
ERP Production Order Confirmation Time Tickets.
− Specific data fields for HR, Payroll, and
Web Services is a standardized and interoperable method that Production Planning
simplifies the process of integrating interactions between
applications over a network. − Editable by Kronos Services and customers

− Certified by SAP
Flexible integration methods − Maintained as SAP modifies versions
Your integration needs vary. Which is why — in addition to our
SAP-Certified Integration methodology — Kronos offers an array • Available for use with Workforce Central v6.1.5 or higher
of flexible ways to integrate your SAP system with our workforce • Requires WIM (Workforce Connect not supported)
management applications. Available SAP-Kronos interfaces can
support manual, scheduled, or event-driven processes. These • Templates for SAP HCM and PP require Workforce
processes are driven by the following integration types: Timekeeper and v6.1.5 and Workforce Activities v6.1.5
or higher, respectively
• SAP-Certified Integration2: As described above
• Requires SAP ERP v6.0 Enhancement Pack 3 or higher
• Flat-file
 transfer (FFT): Reading legacy data in
spreadsheet tables or sequential files, converting the • Supports Web Services3 shipped with SAP ERP and
data into the target format, and importing the data into Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs)
the SAP or Kronos database as required exposed as Web Services by customers

• Plant data collection (PDC): An interface using Idocs • Supports Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) v1.1:
(Intermediate documents), a standard, Kronos- Kronos WIM Web Services Connection
supported process for sending neutral flat files via
Workforce Connect™ or WIM on the Kronos side — and
Get the Kronos Services advantage
an SAP-distributed integration method on the SAP end
We possess a long track record of successful SAP-Kronos
integrations. Moreover, our SAP Integration Certification gives you
the confidence that, when you integrate your SAP ERP system with
Note: Contact your Kronos sales representative if you are interested
Kronos Workforce Central, your investment in SAP technology is
in implementing field-configured FFT or PDC integrations.
protected and safe. And you’ll get maximum value from the data
and applications you join together.

Want to find out more?

To learn more about the benefits of pairing your SAP ERP system
with the Kronos Workforce Central suite, visit www.kronos.com. or
call us at (800) 225-1561.

2
SAP-Certified Web Services link and interface templates are compatible with Workforce Central v6.1.5 and higher.
3
SAP ERP source and output types use Web Services, the stated integration direction of SAP.

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