With a profile, you specify which human resources (employees) are available in Shift Planning.

The selection of personnel is based on operational tasks that need to be completed.
First, you must define the evaluation paths by which an employee is selected when using the entry profile.

The evaluation paths determine the organizational units, or links to organizational units, containing the employees you want to select.
Furthermore, you can specify the employees who should be excluded, or those employees assigned elsewhere who can be included in the selection.

When you define profiles, you can use an individual employee and requirement selection to enter Shift Planning.

Employee selection allows you to specify:

• From where employees are to be selected (organizational units, work centers or other objects).
• How the employees are to be selected (evaluation paths).
• Whether or not selected employees can be removed from the selection.
• Whether or not unselected employees can be included in the selection.

You have defined an X profile that selects all positions in your enterprise. In Customizing, you specify the appropriate evaluation path. You assign organizational units as the entry object type to the X profile. When you enter shift planning, the Organizational units field appears. Here you can select one or more organizational units from the list of possible entries. The system searches all of the existing positions. The data resulting from the search is automatically entered in the shift plan, and can be used to cover a requirement.

You can select organizational structures and jobs directly from the entry screen in shift planning. Thus, you limit the data assigned to an entry object type, and entered into the shift plan, by using the entry profile.

When you exit shift planning, the system stores the current entry objects, as well as the last period processed. When you next enter shift planning, this data is automatically proposed, and you do not need to select it again.