
Travel Expenses
Purpose
The Travel Expenses function allows you to settle the travel expenses incurred by employees taking business trips simply and efficiently. The process of reimbursing the expenses to the employee is also improved.
Depending on the organization model of your company, the expense receipts are entered, checked, and settled centrally by the expenses department, or (in the decentralized model) the travelers enter the data themselves with a central monitoring of the trip facts and information.
Depending upon the individual demands of your task structure or your country specifications, the employees can choose from a range of different entry scenarios.
Integration
You can
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 from R/3 Human Resources (HR) (see
Personnel Master Data for Travel Expenses).To aid the approval process, Travel Expenses is connected to the SAP Business Workflow component (see
Approval via SAP Business Workflow).Country and Industry Versions
The standard Travel Expenses version of R/3 Travel Management includes 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.
This means that R/3 Travel Management supports all the legally admissible settlement methods of these countries as standard, by using country-specific
Trip Provision Variants.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 for 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 an online travel expense report after completing a trip (see
ESS/IACs in Travel Management).
See also:
The Overall Process of Travel Management Trip Fact Entry (Travel Expenses)