The challenge

As with many other companies, KONE decided to move their SAP HCM solution to the cloud and at the same time dismantle their SAP HCM platform. This meant that KONE’s Danish and Norwegian HR departments faced a situation where they needed to implement a new payroll administration solution, since both departments operated their payroll administration in SAP.

It was assessed that changing their established platform in Norway and Denmark would be demanding compared to continuing with their current solution, which in reality covered both of their countries’ needs. They therefore wanted to look at alternatives that could cover the area without requiring major changes or changing their current platform.

Because of 2BM’s existing close collaboration with KONE, 2BM was asked to devise a potential solution for this challenge. The solution involved moving KONE’s SAP HCM system over to a SAP system hosted by 2BM. Since the existing solution thus did not need to be changed, it was relatively easy to move the technical setup.

Because KONE decided to retain the SAP ERP system on-premise, an interface between the new hosted SAP HCM system and KONE’s SAP ERP system was created, so that time data etc. could be exchanged between the two systems.

Because the company also wanted a full history of their employees, we used to tool Easy Clone from SpinifexIT to copy all of the employees from the previous SAP HR system at KONE, over to the new SAP system.