The processing of time events - which have been uploaded from the time recording systems to HR - is divided into two logical steps:

1. Firstly, the system forms time pairs from the time events. This processing step is relatively fixed, and can only be influenced to a certain extent. The procedure is known as pair formation.
2. Time wage types are generated from the pairs, time balances are calculated, and time quotas are updated. You can customize this second processing step to suit your individual requirements. Please refer to the sections on RPTIME00 and the standard schema TM00.

In order to be able to process the individual time events and ascertain an employee’s actual working hours, the system must form time pairs from the time events. Pair formation comprises three steps:

1. Time events are assigned to the current or previous day
2. Pairs are formed for each day
3. If you use plant data collection (PDC): time tickets are generated for incentive wages.

In order to be able to form pairs, the system first assigns the time event to a day. The event is not necessarily assigned to the day on/for which it was recorded. It may be logical to assign it to a time event of the previous day.

• 24 hours is added to the time of the clock-out entry on account of the previous day assignment.

• Only time events which have been assigned logically to the same day are formed into time pairs.

• A time event is always assigned to the current or previous day in pair formation - never to the subsequent day.

Pair formation is carried out on a daily basis. In principle, pair formation is only triggered for days on which there are new time events, or a pair formation error from a previous pair formation.

Pair formation is performed within time evaluation.