Purpose
In Travel Expenses the travel expenses incurred by employees taking business trips can be settled simply and efficiently. The process of reimbursement to the employee has also been improved.
Depending on the organization model of your company the expense receipts are entered, checked and settled centrally by the employees in the expenses department or (in the decentralized model) the travelers enter the data themselves with a central monitoring of the trip facts.
Thus, according to the individual demands of your tasks structure or your country specifications, the employees can choose from different entry scenarios.
Integration
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The travel expense transfer amounts can be reimbursed to the employee via Financial Accounting (FI), Payroll (HR), or via data medium exchange.
Within the Travel Expenses process, Travel Management refers to master data in R/3 Personnel Administration (HR) (see
personnel master data for travel expenses).To aid the approval process Travel Expenses is connected to the SAP Business Workflow component (see a
pproval via SAP Business Workflow).Country and Industry Versions
The standard Travel Expenses version of R/3 Travel Management include a great number of different country versions for which the statutory trip regulations and statutory per diem and maximum rates are stored in the R/3 System.
Thus the R/3 Travel Management supports all the legally admissible settlement methods of these countries as standard via its own
trip provision variant.R/3 Travel Management also provides special country versions for processing trips made in the Public Sector. For the Public Sector in Germany versions are available for all 16 federal states.
For more information, see
country and industry versions of Travel Expenses.Employee Self Service: Travel Management
The Employee Self Service (ESS): Travel Management was developed to enable the decentralized entry of trip facts by the travelers themselves. Using ESS the travelers can both request and plan their trip and enter the relevant data in a travel expense report after taking a trip online (see
ESS/IACs in Travel Management).
See also:
The Overall Process of Travel Management
Trip Fact Entry (Travel Expenses)