{"id":86920,"date":"2019-03-29T10:50:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T09:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/easy-software.com\/how-sap-enables-you-to-create-reference-letters-for-your-employees-in-just-a-few-clicks\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:12:21","slug":"reference-letters-sap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/easy-software.com\/en\/newsroom\/reference-letters-sap\/","title":{"rendered":"How SAP<\/em> Enables You to Create Reference Letters for Your Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is a thankless job: the coordination effort is high, legal requirements make the preparation of references complex, and in the end only very few employees are satisfied with their reference. At the same time, in times of digitalization and the \u201cwar for talent,\u201d there are important strategic tasks on the HR agenda for which there is supposedly never enough time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this blog post, we will show you how to better organize the creation of job references based on SAP. With a simpler and faster process that is integrated into your SAP system, you reduce the coordination effort and improve the result of your HR work. At the same time, your employees no longer have to wait long for their job references and can look forward to meaningful and high-quality references.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No easy task: Creating certificates quickly and legally compliant<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We know from discussions with numerous SAP users: The number of references produced each year amounts to around 10% of the number of employees. This means that a company with 5,000 employees produces around 500 references every year for promotions, transfers and employees leaving the company. If we assume a processing time of three hours for each certificate, we end up with an annual time expenditure of 1,500 hours in our example company. This corresponds to almost one full-time employee, whose capacity HR managers would much rather use for value-adding tasks such as personnel development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For HR employees, certificate creation can degenerate into a real stress factor because coordination with all parties involved rarely goes smoothly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

However, the time involved is only one of the challenges associated with job references. In many companies, reference preparation can degenerate into a real stressor because coordination with all parties involved rarely runs smoothly. In a paper-based process, difficulties in coordination and the limited availability of process participants result in \u201clayovers\u201d that unnecessarily drag out the process and lead to processing times of three to six months. Because of the following stumbling blocks, job references can quickly become a real productivity killer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n