Trip Fact Entry (Travel Expenses) 
Trip Fact Entry (Travel Expenses)
Purpose
You need trip fact entry to enter and change the trip facts of an employee trip in the R/3 System. It is the basis of the
general travel management process.Prerequisites
You can not create an employee trip via trip fact entry until you have completed
HR master data editing for the employee.Process Flow
The process of trip fact entry is flexibly structured to be able to deal with the great variety of trips and their trip facts correctly and efficiently. The process is determined by the
trip entry scenario and the trip schema and is made up of many different entry functions, each of which can be used to enter specific trip facts.You start the process by choosing the functions
create employee trip or change employee trip. You end the process by saving the employee trip in the database. As the general Travel Management process shows, you can enter trip facts at different points in processing. This means that the process is usually started several times. If you want to enter trip facts for a business trip for which no employee trip has yet been created in the database, you have to create an employee trip. If you want to enter trip facts for a business trip for which an employee trip has already been created in the database, you have to change the employee trip.Detailed Process Flow:
Trip fact entry via the Create employee trip function |
Trip fact entry via the Change employee trip function |
Choose the Create trip function. |
Choose the relevant trip entry scenario. |
Specify the personnel number and choose a trip schema. |
Choose the relevant employee trip. |
Enter the necessary trip facts. |
Add new trip facts by choosing the entry function you need. |
Save the employee trip. |
Save the employee trip. |
Result
The employee trip has been saved in the database with the new trip facts. Once you have entered all the trip facts, the employee trip usually has to be approved for Travel Expenses. You can start approval using either SAP Business Workflow or the approval tool.
See also:
Entry Scenario: Travel Manager: Travel Expenses Entry Scenario: Travel Expense Manager Entry Scenario: Travel Calendar Entry Scenario: Weekly Report Entry Scenario: Trip Advances Entry Scenario: Enter Travel Expenses (Expert)