Position code restructure

I am hoping you can share info to help in the redesign of how we create position number strings. If you can’t answer all the questions, any answers would be helpful.

Do you use smart coding in your position number? If yes, what is contained in the position number string? (currently, we have entity+dept+job code)
Are your positions one to one or one to many? i.e. – every employee has their own distinct position number OR multiple employees share a position number
Does it work/not work? Challenges/opportunities
Do you have feeds into other systems that use the position number? i.e. Kronos, position manager, SuccessFactors, etc. if so, what systems?

Thank you for your input!

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slivak

First 2 characters correspond to Process Level, next 5 department, last 5 job code.
One-to-many. That way we can budget FTEs by position by department.
Works fine.
Position code feeds into our Silk road Red Carpet system so onboarding workflows can branch by position.

unknown

• Position number comprised of an alpha job category, account unit or sub account, job code abbreviation and tiebreaker for same position different supervisors

• One to many

• We are fairly new to positions and are finding it helpful, plus we're moving to MSS and it will be critical for that process.

• We use our job codes for Kronos but we pull position code descriptions into our Corporate Directory on the intranet.

michael-butler

MGing25, we us first #######-####. First 2 are process level, next 5 are department, last 4 are free form.

Our positions are one to one, but we do have 1 facility that uses 1 to many.

Works well for us.

We will be passing the position to which ever time and attendance system we go with. Currently we have Smart Linxs passing the position # and it works perfectly

unknown

Mark, do you use the "Link to Supervisor" for your positions on PA02? If so, how do you get it to work one-to-many with the HR07 supervisor codes? We have the one-to-many situation with our positions for management positions and are trying to figure out if we can make the supervisor codes work. Thanks!

slivak

You can only use the "Link to Supervisor" field for one-to-one positions. For our one-to-many supervisory positions, we leave the "Link to Supervisor" field blank.

unknown

Thanks Mark!

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