LANGUAGE COMPLIANCE IN INDIA

SAP ERP
IN
HINDI
Globalization Services
October 2013
 SAP ERP in Hindi

SAP IN INDIA

FIRST STEP TOWARDS

LANGUAGE
COMPLIANCE

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 Ideation
• Encourage the use of Hindi for
business and employee-centric
transactions
• Extend reach to new users
• Enable users to transact in
Official Language
• Specific Configuration content
in Hindi
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Requirements
• Hindi as an additional
Business language
• Complying to the Rajbhasha
Committee Guidelines
• Printing of Reports in Hindi
• Data storage in Two/Multiple
Languages
Key Features
• SAP Log-On in Hindi (HI)
• Hindi Interface
• Logistics, Financials, HCM and
ESS Applications in Hindi
• 4.5 million lines for translation
• Easily Extendable to customer
specific developments
 SCOPE, FEATURES AND AVAILABILITY
Scope Forms & Reports

 SAP ERP Solution which includes  Standard Forms & Reports (including Legal Reports)
ESS/HCM/FIN/LOGISTICS etc. under each domain shall be available in Hindi. (e.g.
Payslip, Purchase Order, Sales Invoice etc.)
 FLM: File Life Cycle Management

Features

 SAP delivers all the screens in the scope in Hindi, thereby covering the various data labels and pre-delivered
configuration content.

 Your organization can capture its specific configuration content in Hindi to facilitate the relevant default/ drop
down values in the transaction.

 Employees shall be able to enter and access their Personal Information on ESS in Hindi and perform
transactions such as Leave Request, Reimbursement Claims or Tax Declarations in either Hindi or English.

Availability
 SAP ERP in Hindi is released for Customers on 1st October 2012 (ECC6.0 EhP6 Release)
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WE ARE CLOSE
TO OUR
PARTNERS

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APPROACH FOR
LANGUAGE QUALITY ASSURANCE

Internal Language Expert

 Terms Created: 47805

 Released
 Total Terms:26
no of Testers: 30856 Terminology Review
 Terms
 Total PDs Reviewed by[Customers
invested: 18 : 23168
= (26*1/2+26*5)/8]
 Total
 Total suggestions
no of from430
Observations: Customers: 12233
 Totalvalid
Terminology
errors andChanges : 4139
suggestions for Early Stage Testing (त्रुटि खोज)
improvements: 207
 Linguistic issues raised : 175
 Functional issues raised : 32 Customer Workshop on Translation Quality

Language Testing and Validation by Customers

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LOCAL WITH LOCAL LANGAUGE
P Facilitate Business Transaction in Hindi

P Pre-delivered configuration content in Hindi

P
Various Forms & Reports (including Legal Reports)
under each domain available in Hindi

P Personal and Legal master data in multiple languages

P Data Storage in Hindi or both Hindi and English

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 COUPLE OF SCREENS IN HINDI
Customer Validation at Air India

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 COUPLE OF SCREENS IN HINDI
Form 16

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 COUPLE OF SCREENS IN HINDI
Employee’s Personal Data

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 COUPLE OF SCREENS IN HINDI
Payroll Annual Details

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 COUPLE OF SCREENS IN HINDI
Professional Tax Report

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 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Adoption of Hindi

• SAP in Hindi is available from SAP release SAP ECC 6.0 EhP5 onwards

• ESS & MSS on Enterprise Portal in Hindi is available with SAP ECC 6.0 EhP6 onwards

• Terminology guide is available within the SAP system thereby enabling your organization manage your specific
requirements within the standards available.

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 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Hindi Language Information

• Go to Globalization services Page: http://service.sap.com/globalization

• Select Language Information from the left side of navigation pane
• Select Language Hindi from the list of language supported by SAP
• Hindi language information is available now

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 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Language Download

• Go to Service Market place: http://service.sap.com/swdc

• Under Home tab go to Software Download Center
• Use Search option “Language Hindi”
• Two files will appear. Click on any file.
• Customers can add these files to download basket.

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Multiple Language Handling in PA Infotypes
The Need – Short Story
Mr. X logs in English and enters his details in English in Infotype 0002 (Personal Data).

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The Need – Short Story
Mr. X now chooses to view his personal details in Hindi language and logs in with logon language as
‘Hindi’. He wonders why his First and Last name are not shown in Hindi.

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The Need – Short Story
Same experience with Personal Data in Employee Self Service (ESS).

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The Need – Short Story
Mr. X then chooses to maintain his First and Last name in Hindi as well. He maintains the same from
ESS as shown here.

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The Need – Short Story
Next he logs in with logon language as ‘English’. His personal data in PA30 and ESS are displayed
as shown below.

Mr. X gets confused because he sees his First and Last name in Hindi with his English logon and
has lost the English text. He notices the same behavior with other Infotypes too.
The user is unable to maintain and view details in more than one language in the Personnel
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Solution Approach

New mapping (customizing) table:

A new customizable database table where customers will:

• Map the Infotype fields required in multiple language
• Specify the target language
• Specify the Customer Include (CI) field where the data will be stored
• This table is not used for Storing Master Data but only configurations
Original Database Table Original Database Language Translation Database Translated Field
Field Table

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How the customers can use this solution (1/2)
Customer will decide which Infotype field(s) they want to open for multiple language support.

Let’s consider an example where a company chooses to open First and Last name fields in Infotype 0002 for Hindi
and Norwegian. They have to follow the below steps:

1. Identify the database table name where Infotype 0002 records are stored

2. Identify the fields in the database table where First and Last name are stored

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How the customers can use this solution (2/2)
3. Add new fields to the Customer Include of Infotype 0002 (CI_P0002) which will store text in Hindi, Marathi and
Urdu.

Z_NACHN_HI = Hindi Last name

Z_VORNA_HI = Hindi First name
Z_NACHN_MR = Marathi Last name
Z_VORNA_MR = Marathi First name
Z_NACHN_UR = Urdu Last name
Z_VORNA_UR = Urdu First name

4. Customer will do the mapping in the new customizing table as shown below

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End of Story – Happy End User
Mr. X can now login into multiple languages and will see his personal data in that language.

English logon

Hindi logon

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Advantages

• Simplicity
• Easy to enable and configure
• Scalability
• Common solution which works seamlessly for all Infotypes
• Ability to achieve multiple language support with minimal changes
• Customer specific Infotypes and ESS fields will be handled

• Stability

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SOME IMPORTANT NOTES

Note Number Short text

1762351 NetWeaver 7.31 - Language Hindi (HI)

1751052 ECC 600 / EHP6 - Language HI (Hindi)

1723028 Changes related to Hindi Translation

1753214 New Address Version for Hindi

1723028 Changes related to Hindi Translation

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 ADOPTION OF HINDI FOR BUSINESS IN INDIA

India’s Most Valuable Public

Sector Companies

Run Better
Their Business’s With

ERP ECC 6.0

In Hindi

All Localization Investments taken up after customer commitment to the solution

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THANK YOU!

RUN BETTER.

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