Work Schedule (PT-WS)
Purpose
You store working and break times for groups of employees in this component. This then allows to you to structure working times for your enterprise. You can define work schedules with flextime models or rotating shifts for particular organizational units. You can also set up the legislative regulations, collective agreements and internal company policies that stipulate employee working time in your system.
Implementation Considerations
The Work Schedule is an essential element of Human Resources. Human Resources data is an extension of information entered in a work schedule. The Work Schedule component optimizes SAP Human Resources and saves the user valuable time when defining the working time model for your enterprise.
The work schedule is the information medium for all employees who work on time-based schedules. It also contains a detailed overview of all working times. In addition to setting up working times and break times, you can use the work schedule for scheduling and monitoring the organization and coordination of all divisions in your enterprise.
Integration
Possible Integration with Other Human Resources Components
Desired Function |
Required Component |
Determining attendance/absence times of an employee for whole-day attendance/absence. |
Time Data Recording (PT-RC) |
Evaluating employee working times |
Time Evaluation (PT-EV) |
Running the Payroll for an Employee |
Payroll (PY) |
Planning and recording working times |
Shift Planning (PT-SP) |
Possible Integration with Other SAP Components
Desired Function |
Required Component |
Determining employee availability for capacity planning and distribution of requirements |
Logistics |
Features
Work schedules are based on a number of elements that can be used separately, or be combined to define working times and break times for the employees in your enterprise. Thus, you can define these elements in a variety of ways, depending on individual business requirements. This "pool" of elements enables you to set up new versions of work schedules by combining the elements in a variety of ways. You can then react to new working time provisions and other such regulations without wasting valuable time and costs.
In a work schedule, you can:
such as different shift models for different places of work, or different public holiday calendars for subsidiaries of your enterprise that are based in another area.
In this way, for example, you can distinguish between public holidays when payment demands occur. You can define, for example, that if employees work on a Christmas public holiday, the remuneration should be greater than if they work on any other public holiday. Similarly, you can also define that only employees of a specific religious denomination should be granted the relevant religious public holidays.
You do not have to define working times and break times for each employee individually; you can simply assign the separate elements of the work schedule to employee subgroup groupings and personnel subarea groupings. Work schedules become personal work schedules only when the employee is actually assigned to an employee subgroup or personnel subarea.
In this way, you get the most flexibility when designing your working time models and simultaneously save valuable time that would have been spent on data entry, as well as reducing related processing costs.
A break schedule can be assigned to several different daily work schedules, and thus only needs to be defined once. By assigning a break schedule to several daily work schedules, you are actually creating a number of different work schedules.