This component controls the transfer of confirmations to SAP Time Management from the following SAP application components:

• SAP Production Planning (PP) and Process Control (PP/PI)
• SAP Plant Maintenance and SAP Customer Service (PM/CS)
• SAP Project System (PS)

Confirmations recorded in SAP Logistics describe the progress of a job and are used for planning and controlling in Logistics. They also document the performance of the employee who carried out the work. This data affects the employee’s remuneration.

Plant data collection transfers the relevant employee data from the above Logistics application components to Time Management. This reduces the work involved in data entry.

An additional advantage is that target values and specifications are also transferred from Logistics along with the actual data. In this way, labor utilization rates can be determined when time tickets are created in Incentive Wages. The labor utilization rate affects the rate of remuneration, especially in piecework and premium wages.

When the confirmations are transferred from Logistics to Time Management, the data is written either to table EVHR or table LSHR. A plant data sequence number (PDSNR) is assigned to each entry in the tables.

Time wage types are formed during time evaluation in the Time Management component to be included in the gross calculation in Payroll. They are referenced in the gross part of payroll.

Time ticket data from Incentive Wages is also referenced in the relevant wage types in the gross part of payroll.

The data determined in the Time Management component can be accessed by the Payroll component. The Payroll data can be transferred to SAP Controlling for cost accounting.

Logistics confirmations must be recorded with a personnel number or ID number if they are to be transferred to Time Management.

There are two methods of transferring data from Logistics to Time Management:

1. The confirmations recorded in Logistics are time event-related. The transferred data is stored in table EVHR in Time Management. The confirmations are then posted as work time events to the Time Events infotype (2011). Time tickets are generated from the work time events and can be transferred to Incentive Wages if required.

2. The processing duration of production orders, maintenance orders, networks, and so on, is confirmed in Logistics. In other words, the confirmation specifies the time worked as a number of hours. The transferred data is stored in table LSHR in Time Management. The data can either be posted to Incentive Wages as time tickets, or to the Attendances infotype (2002) as attendances.

In most cases, confirmations are recorded at front-end time recording systems for plant data collection and uploaded to the relevant Logistics components in the SAP System. Certified interfaces provide the connection to the subsystem.

Data can also be recorded online in Logistics.