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Implementing Global HR: From Enterprise Model to Live Workforce · Module 16 · HCM Data Loader and Data Migration

Migration strategy: what to bring

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Here is the answer clients give when you ask what to migrate. "Bring everything." And in HCM that is worse than in Financials, because "everything" includes decades of employment history for people who left years ago. Not transactions. People — with addresses, identifiers, medical certificates and disciplinary records attached to them. Three categories, and every candidate goes into one of them with the placement defended. Must migrate: current workers, their current assignments, the structures they depend on, service and seniority dates, and anything a live entitlement calculation needs — that last clause is doing real work, and it is why Module 12 asked you to gather the entitlement rules. Should consider: recent employment history for current workers, current-year absence balances, document records with live retention obligations, and terminated workers within a defined recency window — defined meaning somebody decides on a number and writes it down. Usually leave behind: full…

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In this module: Module 16 · HCM Data Loader and Data Migration

  1. 1Migration strategy: what to bringFree preview
  2. 2The loading toolset
  3. 3File structure and business objects
  4. 4Your first load
  5. 5The workforce structures load sequenceFree preview
  6. 6Loading workers
  7. 7Spreadsheet Data Loader
  8. 8Diagnosing failures
  9. 9Reconciliation and cutover
  10. 10What breaks
  11. 11Lab: migrate the workforce and reconcile it