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The clock is running! Get the answers you need about SAP Time Management configuration and use with this comprehensive guide. Learn how to set up work schedules, time quotas, and time recording in SAP ERP HCM, and then achieve expert-level efficiency by mastering time-related transactions, infotypes, and objects. Apply expert tips to integrate Time Management with other SAP modules and third-party systems to get the most out of your HCM system. From thorough explanations of critical time management concepts to in-depth coverage of IMG configuration options, this book´s big-picture, small-detail balance will make your job easier in no time.

Key Functionality
Understand key Time Management functionality, including work schedules, time quotas, time recording and time evaluation. Learn how to customize each configuration to get the most out of the solution.

ESS, MSS, and CATS
Explore various time recording tools, such as Employee Self-Services (ESS), Manager Self-Services (MSS), and Cross-Application Time Sheets (CATS).

Time Management Implementation
Find out how to implement Time Management, from project preparation and blueprinting to cutover planning and go-live.

Highlights:

Work schedule creation
Implementation
CATS configuration
ESS and MSS
Cluster tables
SAP SuccessFactors integration
Analytics in dashboard
Time quota compensation
Time evaluation objects
Third-party interfacing

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... Acknowledgments ... 15

... Introduction ... 17

1 ... SAP ERP Human Capital Management Structure ... 33

1.1 ... Enterprise Structure ... 35

1.2 ... Personnel Structure ... 40

1.3 ... Summary ... 46

2 ... Work Schedules ... 47

2.1 ... Work Schedule Components ... 48

2.2 ... Holiday Calendars ... 50

2.3 ... Daily Work Schedules ... 56

2.4 ... Period Work Schedules ... 72

2.5 ... Creation of Work Schedules ... 76

2.6 ... Using Work Schedules ... 87

2.7 ... Summary ... 92

3 ... Time Quotas ... 93

3.1 ... Configuring Time Quotas ... 94

3.2 ... Generating Time Quotas ... 134

3.3 ... Using Time Quotas ... 139

3.4 ... Summary ... 142

4 ... Time Recording ... 143

4.1 ... Time Recording Basics ... 143

4.2 ... Configuring Absences and Attendances ... 147

4.3 ... Using Absences and Attendances ... 166

4.4 ... Summary ... 177

5 ... Cross-Application Time Sheet ... 179

5.1 ... Configuring Cross-Application Time Sheet ... 182

5.2 ... Time Entry ... 203

5.3 ... Approval ... 211

5.4 ... Time Data Transfer ... 216

5.5 ... Reporting ... 223

5.6 ... Cross-Application Time Sheet Authorizations ... 226

5.7 ... Summary ... 228

6 ... Employee Self-Services and Manager Self-Services ... 231

6.1 ... Employee Self-Services ... 233

6.2 ... Manager Self-Services ... 252

6.3 ... Summary ... 258

7 ... Time Evaluation ... 259

7.1 ... Concepts of Time Evaluation ... 262

7.2 ... Configuring Time Evaluation ... 273

7.3 ... Running Time Evaluation ... 310

7.4 ... Summary ... 353

8 ... Integrating with SAP ... 355

8.1 ... Within SAP ERP HCM ... 355

8.2 ... With Other SAP Modules ... 362

8.3 ... SAP SuccessFactors ... 367

8.4 ... Summary ... 370

9 ... Interfacing with Third-Party Systems ... 373

9.1 ... Interface to Time System: Kronos ... 374

9.2 ... Interface to Payroll Systems Using Transaction PU12 ... 381

9.3 ... Summary ... 407

10 ... Reporting ... 409

10.1 ... SAP Standard Reports ... 410

10.2 ... SAP Query ... 418

10.3 ... SAP Lumira ... 424

10.4 ... SAP Crystal Dashboard Design ... 429

10.5 ... Summary ... 431

11 ... Security and Authorizations ... 433

11.1 ... SAP Basis Authorizations ... 434

11.2 ... HR Structural Authorizations ... 445

11.3 ... Summary ... 447

12 ... Time Management Project ... 449

12.1 ... Project Planning ... 449

12.2 ... Preimplementation ... 451

12.3 ... Preparation ... 457

12.4 ... Blueprinting ... 462

12.5 ... Realization ... 473

12.6 ... Testing ... 481

12.7 ... Cut-Over ... 483

12.8 ... Go-Live ... 487

12.9 ... Support ... 488

12.10 ... Training ... 489

12.11 ... Change Management ... 490

12.12 ... Summary ... 490

... Appendices ... 493

A ... Time Management Infotypes ... 495

B ... Time Evaluation Objects ... 535

C ... Other Objects ... 601

D ... The Author ... 615

... Index ... 617

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