Time Manager’s Workplace (SAP Library - Personnel Time Management (PT))

Time Manager’s Workplace

Use

The Time Manager’s Workplace is a user interface incorporating the tasks involved in administrating employee time and labor and time evaluation messages. It was specifically designed to meet the needs of time administrators in decentralized departments.

The role of decentralized time administrator is often fulfilled by on-site supervisors, specialists, secretaries, or administrators for their individual divisions. These people are generally responsible for managing the time and labor data of a relatively small number of employees.

Successful decentralization of time management demands that tools used to manage employee time and labor be comprehensive, efficient, and easy to navigate. The Time Manager’s Workplace enables time administrators to learn time management tasks quickly and supports them in their daily work.

Integration

The Time Manager’s Workplace replaces the majority of functions of the Maintain Time Data (PA61) Time Management Pool (PT40), and Time Recording for Multiple Persons and Infotypes (RPTENT00) transactions.

Prerequisites

In the Implementation Guide for Personnel Time Management, you must have performed the Customizing steps for:

Time Data Recording and Administration You can skip the steps for modifying user interfaces if you do not require them for centralized time data administration in the HR department.

Time Manager’s Workplace

Features

The Time Manager’s Workplace provides an integrated user interface for Time Data Maintenance and Message Processing.

You can enter, correct, and complete all time data on one screen. You receive all the information you require to valuate the day.

The intuitive navigation options simplify your work.

Automatically display employees in your area of responsibility in an employee list.

You enter time data using easily identifiable IDs for Time Data (such as "S" for sick or "V" for vacation).

You can choose between various views for administrating time data, such as those where you enter time data in a list or color calendar views.

In the message processing function you can choose between a message-oriented view and an employee-oriented view.

The user interface is made up of different, technically independent screen areas. You can customize any number of variations of these screen areas.

You can personalize the Time Manager’s Workplace to a great extent. This enables you to provide different views for each user, a different initial period, or different fields for recording time data.

So that you do not have to customize a separate Time Manager's Workplace for each time administrator, you define all screen areas, functions, and so on separately. You use profiles grouping various views and functions to assign settings to time administrators. Because of the high degree of modularization, you can reuse the Customizing settings as often as required.