Distribution Methods 

Definition

Distribution methods define how the results of Time Evaluation for Concurrent Employment are to be distributed over an employee’s personnel assignments.

Use

You can specify a separate distribution method in Customizing for each step of a business rule that is able to generate wage types, time balances, or attendance/absence quotas jointly for more than one personnel assignment. You use the distribution method to define the distribution key according to which the results are to be processed over the personnel assignments processed.

Allisa Glenn has to work four hours in the morning for personnel assignment A and four hours in the afternoon for personnel assignment B.

A regulation stipulates that any work she does over and above the eight hours is to be remunerated with overtime bonuses.

The following remuneration models are possible:

·         Allisa receives the overtime remuneration according to the personnel assignment for which she worked overtime.

·         Allisa receives the overtime remuneration for one particular personnel assignment only.

·         The overtime remuneration is distributed over the two personnel assignments according to a defined key.

You use the distribution function to define how you want the hours of overtime to be distributed over the two personnel assignments.

Structure

You assign the distribution methods to the individual steps of business rules in Customizing. You only need to assign distribution methods to the business rules for which you specified joint processing.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide for Personnel Time Management and choose Time Evaluation ® Concurrent Employment in Time Evaluation ® Business Rules of Time Evaluation.

Note: If the results contain information about cost assignment, you have to ensure that you have defined the corresponding account-assignment paths in Controlling as required.

Standard distribution of results

To distribute results over personnel assignments, you do not necessarily have to specify a distribution method. If you do not specify a distribution method, the framework of business subjects automatically processes the results as follows, depending on the function executed:

·        In the case of functions that generate results that can be assigned clearly to the relevant personnel assignments, the system writes the results to the corresponding personnel assignment.

The following functions are affected:

·         PTIP (Process Time Data Table TIP)

·         RTIP (Read Pairs Table TIP)

·         GWT (Generate Wage Types from Time Pairs)

·         POVT (Process Table ZML (Overtime Wage Types))

See also the explanations in the function documentation.

·        In the case of functions that generate results that cannot be assigned clearly to the relevant personnel assignments, the system distributes the results evenly over the personnel assignments processed.

Standard distribution methods

The standard system provides four distribution methods, which you can use without further modification. They cover the most common requirements for distributing results:

·        Equal distribution of results: EQUAL

·        Distribution of results according to planned working time: PLWORKTIME

·        Distribution of results according to average working hours: AVWORKTIME

·        Distribution of results according to the capacity utilization level: CAPUTILLEV

Creating customer-specific distribution methods

If you have knowledge of ABAP OO, you can create your own distribution methods. You can use the PTCCE_DIST_DATA BAdI (Distribute Time Evaluation Data over Personnel Assignments) for this purpose.

For more information about distribution methods, see the Implementation Guide for Personnel Time Management and choose Time Evaluation ® Concurrent Employment in Time Evaluation ® Business Rules of Time Evaluation ® Create Distribution Methods.

Distribution of messages

Messages generated by time evaluation for concurrent employment are not distributed over the personnel assignments using distribution methods. The system distributes the messages according to category as follows:

·        Termination (COLER E): The message is distributed over all personnel assignments being processed.

·        Error (COLER F): The message is distributed over all personnel assignments being processed only if the situation that caused the message occurred in joint processing.

·        Information (COLER I): The message is distributed only to the personnel assignment for which the situation occurred.