Human Resource Management in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012–Employee Life Cycle Management

One of the key assets of every organization is their workforce and the skills and competencies obtained by their employees. Managing employees starting right from Recruitment to Retirement is always a crucial and cumbersome process. The human resource department(Roles such as Recruiter, HR Manager etc.) face several challenges in the employee life cycle management, when they do not get to see the right information in the right time at the right place.

Common pain areas ?

• Gathering job applications.
• Loosing track of qualified candidates.
• Missing correspondence action.
• Complex employee transitioning.
• Managing employees skills at one place to schedule them in the right job.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 helps you with all of these pain areas and helps in making the job of human resource department easier in every aspect of employee life cycle management.

Below is a walk through of the various screens in AX 2012 in each phase of the employee life cycle management in an organization. This post will help customers looking for Human resource management capabilities of AX 2012.

Recruitment:

View application that have just arrived and approve if the applicant meets the job requirements.

• See application details
• See job advertise details and media that has been put in place for the recruitment

Automatic transition of applicant’s Skill details to the employee profile when the applicant transitions to worker/employee of the organization.

In case recruiter finds that none of the external applicants are good enough to meet the specific job requirements, then they can setup and run skills mapping profile to find out all the people who are already in the organization. System can search among all the applicants, existing workers and the company contacts.

Good thing is, AX 2012 does not just does the search in the current logged in company but searches in the whole organization.

Run a result report to see all the individuals available inside the organization who can fit into the job.

Hire workers:

Screen the final applicant, interview, email, and create and send Offer.

Hire worker right from the Application screen after offer is sent and candidate accepts the offer..

Manage your workforce:

On board resource, administer the new hires into the company, setup compensation eligibility, benefits, pay rates etc.

Employee transitions management:

Manage the transitions of roles and positions of employees within the organization easily staying at one common worker master form.

Retirement:

Terminate workers and be able to keep track of all their employment history and list of past workers.

These were a little about the overall capabilities of AX 2012 for efficient human resource management. Yet another powerfully simple functionality of AX 2012.