The Time Evaluation component valuates employees’ working times. Time evaluation calculates planned times and overtime, administrates time accounts and forms wage types, updates time quotas, and is used to check working time specifications.

You should implement the Time Evaluation component if you use time recording systems to record employees’ attendance times (actual times).

If you use other methods of time recording, the component is optional. Time data entered online can also be evaluated on a daily basis in the Integration with Time Management component in Payroll. The only functions available there are for determining wage types.

The standard system provides several time evaluation processes, which have different requirements on the time data to be evaluated and evaluate data using different methods:

• Time evaluation for processing time data that is imported to SAP R/3 from time recording systems
• Time evaluation for time management where only deviations to the work schedule are recorded, and not all employees’ attendance times
• Time evaluation for processing time data where the duration of work performed, and not the start and end times, is required for checking working time regulations, overtime determination, and so on
• Time evaluation for evaluating planned working times in future periods, for example, to receive an overview of the anticipated level of overtime
• Time evaluation for automatically accruing absence entitlements

• Overtime, productive hours, absence times, and so on
• Flextime balances
• Annual working time accounts

• It enables absence entitlements to be accrued automatically - dependent on the times worked, for example.
• Time evaluation issues messages when specific situations occur, for example, or if working time regulations are not adhered to. You can define your own messages for any situation. You can also order time evaluation to abort if particular errors occur.
• You can display a statement of the balances determined each day for employees’ information.