SAP MSS (Manager’s Self-Service) provides for a comfortable user friendly overview for managers on all significant business topics of the SAP ERP system.

An appropriate decision making and a prospering course of business are based on an efficient access to information, services, applications and documents covering the key company processes. MSS is a product providing for a unified and secured access to such information, services and resources. And all of this with only an internet browser and a single www address. The set of standard functions of the MSS package can be gradually enriched by the user.

The product is intended mainly for managers, however, a part of the functionality can be used by all employees.

The standard functions are structured as follows:

• My Day – “My Day” is the home screen of the portal, in which an overview of highlights from all the areas and the most common everyday activities are brought together. The user is provided with a quick and clear overview of all important events: meetings newly planned, tasks assigned, documents newly filed, etc. This initial page offers direct links to the most frequent activities and other important information such as news, tasks, mail, calendar, contacts, files, external resources, surveys.
• My Team – This screen is intended as an overview of information from all the teams of which the user is a member. These can be both long term teams (specified in the organizational structure) and temporary project-based teams. Available is a detailed set of information from each of the teams: project documents and references, team meetings, tasks, team members, administration of collaboration rooms, etc.
• My Staff – This screen is intended mainly for managers. It contains tools and services focused on managing employee teams. It includes the following functionalities:
  • Organizational structure and organizational data (organigram)
  • Qualifications profile and personal development of employees, as well as personal growth and focus and personal documentation
  • Monitoring of attendance, presence at the workplace, data on working time and its planning (e.g. holidays, participation in projects)
  • Overview of wages and wage development of employees
  • Materials for personnel interviews, employee evaluation
  • Overview of vacant positions, supporting tools for recruitment and filling of vacancies
• My Finance – This screen is intended mainly for managers. Contains information and services intended for managing the economic aspects of the organizational unit, including tools for planning etc. Provided are clearly structured financial reports and tables, e.g. monitoring of costs, performance, billing, assets, internal orders, individual projects, cost centers and profit centers.
• My Company Business – The screen contains information and materials related to everyday life of the company. The essential areas that can be covered in this way include personal data of the employee, administration of absence and holidays, education and qualification development, purchase requisitions, travel documents etc.
• Document Library – The screen is intended as “document library” and archive. The individual documents are stored here in a structured manner, as well as internal regulations and guidelines, links or archive records and archived documents.
• Help – When anybody needs advice, the required guidance, information and instructions can be found in this screen. Besides the “help” intended for working with the portal, it contains e.g. the site map, frequently asked questions, a space for discussions, important contacts, methodical guidelines.

The utmost value of the MSS product is in its broad support of teamwork. It is ideal for application on teams and processes with an accurate documenting of the activities of the particular team.

It provides for operation of collaboration rooms with a definition of members on the levels of administrators, team leaders and users, and contains also a document repository with a directory structure and an option to define authorizations hierarchically. Another advantage is the defining of tasks for the members of a collaboration room, tracing of their completion rate in percents and on a time scale, adding comments, documents to be approved and with discussions on tasks, document as well as on the entire room.