Basics of Time Management

SAP HR Time Data includes:  Daily working hours Absences (annual leave, sick leave, long service leave, etc.) Time-related payments (overtime, meal allowances, shift allowances, etc.) Absence quotas (accumulations, deductions, and corrections) Absence quota compensation for unused absence quota balances. Time Types Time data (attendances or absences) is stored using time […]

Transactions and Reports for analysing ALE issues

Please find below some useful transactions and reports Reports in the source system used in this component are: Report Description RHALEINI (transaction PFAL) to distribute HR Master Data. This report included a very good documentation. In case of issues with this report, please check the documentation. HRALXSYNC this report is executed […]

HRALX settings in table T77S0

HRALX settings in table T77S0: Purpose : This wiki page will explain all HRALX settings functionality that you can maintain in T77S0 table. Overview : Through this page, you will understand all the settings related to ALE transfer with HR integration. It will also explain how the number ranges for Business […]

SAP Excel Inplace: The following template is missing: sap_sm.xls

Symptom When you click on Views > Excel inplace, below error coming out, You are getting error, “Contact your system administrator. The following template is missing: sap_sm.xls” Solution Execute the report BCALV_BDS_IMPORT_SAP_TEMPLATE using the transaction code SE38. Note SAP Note 548409 – ALV view: Consulting note for Excel Inplate/templates SAP […]

SAP HR Policy Management: Policy to Execution

When we embarked on a multi-city and multi-customer trip across India to meet senior executives in HR line of business, most of them were looking for smoothening of various processes in their organizations – some needed solution to implement processes like hiring, while others looked for solution for their complex […]

Understanding functions in Payroll Schemas (specific eg, WPBP)

Introduction In SAP HR, functions provide the high-level logic for calculations. The functions can be associated with either a payroll class or time management class. In payroll, they provide the overall functionality for payroll processing including rules for calculations. Functions perform general processing such as reading wage types from specific infotypes, calculating payroll […]

Understanding Infotype 0003 (Payroll Status Infotype)

Infotype 0003 (Payroll Status Infotype) or TCode for the same is PU03, works as a central part for Employee’s Master Data. This Infotype is updated automatically at backend whenever an employee is hired, or any changes are made in Master Data of an employee. In this document, I shall explain […]

OM – PA Integration Concepts

Hi All, In this document, I shall explain about the integration switches and how does they work in SAP. In the SAP system the integration is controlled using switches. All the integration switches are stored in table T77S0. PA – OM integration is defined by PLOGI – ORGA in this […]

Configuration of table T510S – Integration between Time Management and Payroll

Recently at my client side, I came across a lot of issues regarding Positive Time Management. Table T510S was most common point in all the issues that I faced. This made my concept for the table more clearly, and helped me to understand the concept in a better way. This […]

All About DWS Variants

Recently when I posted my first document, there was a request that I should create something on DWS Variants. So here it is… The primary focus of this document would be to understand the purpose and configuration of a DWS variant for a working day and absence. Also, we will […]