e-Gehalt – Cost lever No. 1 for SAP SuccessFactors customers with a deskless workforce
Do you support SAP HCM, SAP SuccessFactors, or SAP Payroll for customers employing hundreds of manufacturing workers, mining teams, or other non-desk workers? Then you know the dilemma: for purely digital payroll delivery, your customer pays a full self-service license per head—even though these employees have no PC access. This is exactly where e-Gehalt comes in: a focused service for the digital dispatch of pay slips that can be connected directly to SAP payroll processes via a lean API.
1 | Why is an SAP license often overkill?
- Per-user costs: SuccessFactors Employee Central & co. always charge per seat. With 3,000 shift workers in production, this adds up to five- to six-figure amounts per year.
- Usage reality: Manufacturing employees just want to see their pay slip. Leave requests, performance reviews, and skill profiles are rarely relevant for this target group.
- Technical hurdles: No individual PC login, often no company email, sometimes even low digital affinity.
Result: license costs > benefit—and your customers start to question it.
2 | e-Gehalt as an API add-on
e-Gehalt focuses on a single use case: digital dispatch of pay slips and other HR documents—secure, GDPR-compliant, extremely inexpensive. SAP consultancies have several integration paths, from simple PDF export and upload to e-Gehalt to an SAP interface for fully automated processes.
This keeps your SAP landscape untouched—you simply add a digital delivery pipeline for payroll documents.
3 | Business case: manufacturing company (3,000 employees)
At a manufacturing company with 3,000 non-desk employees, switching from full SuccessFactors licenses to the e-Gehalt API eliminates all seat fees; only low, transaction-based delivery costs remain. Annual expenses drop by up to 90%, so the integration pays for itself in less than three months—an impressive argument for any CFO agenda.
4 | Added value for your system house
- Quick-win project: Live in days instead of months—the perfect fit when large projects are on hold.
- Upselling trigger: Demonstrate effective cost reduction and open doors for follow-on projects.
- Partner terms: e-Gehalt offers tiered pricing & revenue share for SAP partners—additional margin without extra effort.
Conclusion
SAP system integrators can deliver immediately measurable savings to their customers: digital payroll and digital dispatch of pay slips via a plug-and-play API—ideal for manufacturing, mining, or service providers with many lower-skilled employees. Reduce TCO, increase consulting revenue, and position yourself as an efficiency partner—all with a few lines of integration to the e-Gehalt platform.
