Processing Human Resource Data 

The Human Resource Management System stores data in infotypes. You must change and complete these infotypes in order to keep the employee data up to date and to take into account changes and developments that have taken place since the employee has entered the enterprise.

Before you process employee data, you must enter the employee’s personnel number and select the infotype that needs to be maintained. You can find further information on this topic under Selection of HR Data. You can choose between the following processing types:

See also:

Maintaining HR Master Data

Displaying HR Master Data

Fast Entry of HR Master Data

When you update an infotype, old data is not lost but archived for historical evaluation. The system records a specific period of validity for each infotype record. Several records for an infotype can therefore exist in the system simultaneously. These records differentiate themselves from each other by their validity period.

So that you can simultaneously store several infotype records, you must define time relationships between the records. This is accomplished by the system using time constraints.

See also:

Time Constraints in HR Master Data