Previous Day Assignment in Pair Formation 

Purpose

At the start of pair formation, the individual time events are assigned to a specific day. This can be the current or the previous day, according to the employee’s daily work schedule.

A time event can never be assigned to a subsequent day in pair formation.

Previous day assignment:

Planned working time (DWS)

01/02/1996

22:00 – 06:00
(10 p.m. - 6 a.m.)

Clock-in entry

01/02/1996

21:56

Clock-out entry

01/03/1996

06:07

Time pair

01/02/1996

21:56 -30:07

The employee has worked a night shift. In order that pair formation can be carried out, the clock-out entry must be assigned to the previous day. This is done by comparing the time events to the relevant daily work schedule.

Process Flow

  1. To form pairs for a (logical) day, the system takes account of all time events of this and the subsequent day.
    The (logical) first time event of the day is determined. The system skips all time events which have already been assigned to the previous day.
  2. According to the settings made when your system was customized, a daily work schedule is determined dynamically on the basis of the first time event, or the daily work schedule in the employee’s personal work schedule is taken as the basis for further processing.
  3. The system then decides for each further time event whether it should be assigned to the day on which the daily work schedule starts, or if it gives rise to a new (logical) day. The interval from the last time event and from the end of the daily work schedule is evaluated. Since there may be a missing time event, the attendance/absence status is also taken into account (two consecutive clock-in entries).

Evaluating the interval between time events:

Planned working time (DWS)

01/02/1997

06:00 – 14:00

Clock-in entry

01/02/1997

05:56

Clock-out entry

01/03/1997

14:03

By consulting the daily work schedule, the system is able to ascertain that the time span between the two time events is too great for a realistic pair to be formed. The second time event is therefore not assigned to the previous day.

The following open time pairs are formed:

Pair formation:

01/02/1997

05:56 – ____

 

01/03/1997

____ -14:03

The system specifies a message for the open time pairs using the status from pair formation (STAT1):