SAP Certified - SAP Incentive Management

Who it's for: Compensation and incentive-management consultants — and HR systems professionals moving into a sales-compensation implementation role — who want a recognized associate credential proving they can configure SAP SuccessFactors Incentive Management, build compensation plans and rules, run calculations, and support payees as a contributing member of a project team.

The SAP® C_THR70 certification checks whether you can actually implement and administer SAP SuccessFactors Incentive Management, not merely describe it. It spans the full incentive-compensation lifecycle — setting up system preferences, calendars, security, and processing units; managing organizational, classification, and compensation-element data such as territories, rate tables, lookup tables, formulas, and variables; designing compensation plans through credit, measurement, incentive, and deposit rules; running the calculation pipeline and reviewing results; communicating with payees through documents, disputes, dashboards, and reports; and building embedded-analytics stories. Because it is delivered as a Scenario-Based Assessment, the exam rewards applied execution: you complete a guided activity in a working system rather than answer isolated recall questions. It is written for the consultant profile at an entry-level, project-participation depth.

1. 1Learn the incentive-compensation flow as one connected chain — system setup, compensation elements, plan rules, calculation, payee communication — so you can trace how an early configuration choice affects the calculation results downstream.
2. 2Drill the four plan-rule types together: credit, measurement, incentive, and deposit rules interlock, and variable assignment ties them to your compensation elements — they are best rehearsed as a combined configuration task rather than in isolation.
3. 3Treat compensation elements as their own study block — practise territories, fixed values, rate tables, lookup tables, formulas, and variables, since small differences here change what the calculation pipeline ultimately produces.
4. 4Practise running the calculation end to end and reviewing results hands-on: set run preferences, execute the pipeline, model a plan, and check outputs, so you can spot when an upstream setting produced an unexpected figure.
5. 5Rehearse payee communication and embedded-analytics tasks — document distribution, disputes, dashboards, standard reports, and publishing stories — because these later stages are examined too and reward the same fluent, confirmed execution as the core configuration.