IFS Human Resources - Information Sources

Information sources are a combination of facts and dimensions which are structured and holds information about a specific transaction table in IFS Applications. Currently the information sources based on IFS/Human Resources listed below can be used when creating IFS Business Reporter reports or cubes. An overview of each information source which is mainly based on IFS Human Resources is given below:

Employee Headcount Analysis

General Description

Purpose of the employee headcount analysis information source is to analyze employee headcount and turnover for defined periods. Following information is required to be defined for the company so that headcount analysis can be performed in BI:

The following points should be considered when report is created.

Reports/Analysis

Access Types

  1. Online

Specific Attributes

Supported Dimensions

Main Features supporting IFS Business Reporter

 

Absence Period

General Description

Purpose of the Absence Period information source is to provide information about the absence periods of absences registered in Absence Administration.

Reports/Analysis

Access Types

  1. Online
  2. Data Mart

Specific Attributes

Supported Dimensions

Main Features supporting IFS Business Reporter

 

Time Transaction

General Description

Purpose of the Time Transaction information source is to provide detailed information about employee time reporting. Time transactions are extracted from the table where the time registration results are stored. Therefore it is not necessary to copy the data. thereby only Online mode is available for this information source.

Reports/Analysis

Access Types

  1. Online

Specific Attributes

Supported Dimensions

Main Features supporting IFS Business Reporter

 

Incident Analysis

General Description

Purpose of the incident analysis information source is to analyze the health and safety related data in different dimensions which will helps to report to external authorities, monitor and control necessary actions related to health and safety.

Reports/Analysis

Access Types

  1. Online
  2. Data Mart

Specific Attributes

Supported Dimensions

Main Features supporting IFS Business Reporter

Employee Working Schedule

General Description

The purpose of the Employee Working Schedule information source is to provide detailed information about employee scheduled working time. In the T&A module there is no generated information about each working day of an employee. Instead, an employee has assigned definition of the working schedule which has to be used to get detailed information about each working day and days off.

The information about working time covers:

Reports/Analysis

Daily analysis of scheduled work time for each employee.

Access Types

Specific Attributes

Supported Dimensions

Main Features supporting IFS Business Reporter