Creating the Customer-Specific Wage Type Catalog

Use

You use the wage type copier to create your own wage type catalog from the SAP wage type catalog, which contains all the model wage types. You copy the model wage types into your customer-specific name range and edit the copied wage types so that they meet your requirements.

Note Note

We recommend that you create your customer-specific wage type catalog within the Customizing framework. This prevents you forgetting important Customizing settings. For example, certain wage type characteristics are already preconfigured and must not be changed for legal reasons.

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Prerequisites

Obtain an overview of the wage types required at your company.

Features

You can create your wage type catalog by copying whole wage type groups or using prototypes.

If you do not have much experience of using the wage type catalog, it is best to use this procedure. The disadvantage of this procedure is that it is very time-consuming because you must completely configure each wage type you want to use.

Only use this procedure if you have an exact overview of how you want to implement wage types in your company. This saves time because you must edit less customer-specific wage types in detail.

Activities

  1. You copy the SAP model wage types to the customer-specific name range. You have the following options:

  • You copy all the model wage types for a whole wage type group.

  • You copy a model wage type as a prototype

  • You use one of the wage types, which you have copied into your customer-specific name range within the framework of a wage type group, as a prototype.

  1. If you want to define characteristics for your customer-specific wage types, which are different to the model wage types, then you must edit these wage types with regard to

  • your dialog characteristics (for example, whether it is entered in the infotype)

  • the way it is dealt with in payroll (for example, processing classes and evaluation classes)

If you work with wage type groups you make this specification for every wage type; if you work with prototypes you make this specification for every prototype.

  1. If you have copied a sample wage type into your customer-specific name range as a prototype, you then duplicate this prototype. In this way you generate several wage types with the same characteristics from this prototype. You can still correct prototypes you have copied, for example, to adjust them to suit the wage type text.