SAP Core HR and Payroll vs. Tempus Central

SAP HR can be well suited for global companies with operations in multiple countries. The Payroll module needs to be limited to one instance per country, otherwise trying to maintain multiple countries on the same instance is too complicated. I would not recommend using SAP HR and Payroll for smaller companies because the total cost of ownership and the lack of flexibility will make it unfeasible. There are many cloud-based options now a days available that would fit better for this type of scenario.

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If you are a manufacturing company, managing a few hundred blue-collar workers, you definitely need Tempus Central. This is the cheapest option we found so far, with all the required features. If you are a small company with fairly simple attendance policy settings and not many shifts, you can avoid using Tempus Central.

• Employee lifecycle JLM process.
• Globally employee engagement.
• Employee Learning and development process.

• Gives us flexibility to set up attendance policy for various types of people
• It manages our Night shifts and Over Time policy very well
• It integrates well with the Biometric Devices, HRMS and Payroll system

• The design looks outdated
• Could add more functions like PTO tracking
• The help sections aren’t very helpful

Incentivized

• I would like to see a few more analytics in the software

The application is highly available, easy to use, and very user-friendly.

SAP is very intuitive to use and allows us to achieve our goals.

Incentivized

We selected Tempus Central for its flexibility and amount of policy setups we could do. Our complex requirements especially Night Shift management were not available with the most readily available HRMS. Hence, we move forward with Attendance Management first and maybe then we will move towards implementing an HRMS on our premises.

• SAP HR is suited for large companies with a sufficient budget. Small budgets will not be able to cover the expensive licensing, technical personnel and consultants required of an SAP installation.
• In regards to the total cost of ownership, my ROI experience has been that by replacing SAP HR modules with cloud solutions we have been able to reduce the cost up to 60% while modernizing our systems and improving the employee experience.
• I would encourage decision makers to look for cloud-based alternatives with a robust system integration, before believing that supporting every area of HR with a single SAP installation is a good long-term strategy. Having SAP HR as the core integrated to best-in-class cloud-based systems is a very valid and effective system strategy.

Incentivized

• Our HRs save 4 days every month by automating attendance management
• No more excel sheet management, hence we get organized data in one place
• Ability to analyze employees' efficiency and productivity