Releasing Payroll 

Procedure

  1. From the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Payroll ® Payroll <Country> ® Payroll ® Tools ® Release Payroll in the SAP menu.
  2. Specify the payroll area for which you want to release payroll and choose Continue .

If you have already specified the payroll area using Settings ® Set payroll area, the system releases payroll for this payroll area.

Result

You can run payroll for this payroll area.

The system has increased the period number in the payroll control record for the payroll area by 1. The payroll control record is used to lock the personnel numbers in the payroll area for changes to the master and time data reflecting the past and present.