Purpose

The Personnel Time Events component enables you to connect external time recording systems to SAP Time Management .

If your employees enter the start and end of their working times on time recording terminals, you can use this component to process the resulting time events in Time Management .

You can also process employee expenditure data resulting from purchases at company cafeterias and service stations.

Implementation Considerations

Connecting time recording systems with the Time Management component in SAP Human Resources takes place using a standardized interface.

Time recording systems are connected to the Time Management component via the Plant Data Collection: Employee Times and Expenditures (HR PDC) interface.

SAP makes these interfaces available to providers of time recording systems. Providers can also have their connections to the interface certified by SAP. In this case, both SAP and the provider of the time recording system are responsible for the interface.

The technology for transferring data has changed as of SAP System Release 4.5A. There are now two versions of CC1 available; both will continue to be supported for the next two functionality releases. The old interface is connected via Communication Channel 1 (CC1).

·          Transceiver-based transfer (CC1)

BAPI-based transfer (HR PDC)

In the Specify communication parameters step in the Personnel Time Events section in the IMG for Personnel Time Management , you can specify whether the previous version or the new version of CC1 is in use.

For more information, see Specifying Communication Parameters .

Integration

Time events processed from Plant Data Collection (PDC) in SAP Logistics can also be uploaded to the SAP System using standardized interfaces. Communication with the time recording system takes place using the communication channels CC2, CC3, and so on.

This data can be transferred by any of the Logistics components to Human Resources , if required. The Plant Data Collection component in Time Management can be used for this purpose.

Features

Time recording systems are provided with essential data by the Personnel Time Events component.

Personnel Time Events is then supplied with the recorded data (clock-in/clock-out entries) from the time recording systems during each upload.

Employee expenditures are also transferred to Time Management during each upload.

Choose Human resources → Time management → Administration → Environment → Subsystem Connection → Communication Log for more information on the last upload and download processes carried out.