Check Payroll Area (SAP Library

Check Payroll Area

In this step, you set up the required

payroll areas for your enterprise. If you have already set up all your payroll areas (in Customizing for Personnel Administration under Organizational Data -> Organizational Assignment -> Create Payroll Areas ), you only need to check them in this step.

For each newly created payroll area, you must create a corresponding payroll control record.

Example

You define one payroll area for salaried employees and one for industrial workers. You then create your own payroll control record for each of these payroll areas.

Requirements

In this section of the Implementation Guide, you have checked the period parameters for payroll in the step Define Period Parameters , and if required, defined your own period parameters.

Standard Settings

The standard system contains the payroll areas for the usual employee groupings in various countries.

Recommendation

Obtain an overview of the employee groups for which you want to run payroll separately. When taking this decision, consider the following:

Whether you want to run payroll at different times for different employee groups (for example, salaried employees, industrial employees)

How you want to differentiate between payroll areas for reporting purposes.

Activities

1. Check the payroll areas in the standard system, and if required, specify your own payroll areas. Proceed as follows:

a) In the Payroll area field, enter a two-character key of your choice.

b) Enter a Payroll area text.

c) Assign a Period parameter to the payroll area.

d) In the Run payroll field, specify whether payroll is to be run for the payroll area.

e) If payroll areas with the same period parameters are to have different payment days, you assign different date modifiers to the payroll areas.

f) Save your entries.

2. For each newly created payroll area, create a new payroll control record. Proceed as follows:

a) In the Payroll Control Record screen, enter the key for the newly created payroll area in the Payroll area field and choose Create.

b) In the Payroll period field, enter a period number that is one digit lower than the period number for which you want to run payroll.

When you run payroll for the first time, the system raises the period number of the in the payroll control record by one.

c) Specify the earliest period for retroactive accounting.

d) Save your entries.