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Changing an Employee’s Basic Pay Using the Copy Function: Example Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Prerequisites

An employee in your enterprise receives an increase in basic pay. You record the increase in Basic Pay (infotype 0008) Most of the data in the current record is still valid. To save time and to avoid errors, you record the pay increase by copying the existing record and changing the copy.

Procedure

  1. From the SAP Easy Access screen, select Human Resources ® Personnel Management ® Administration ® HR Master Data ® Maintain.
  2. Enter the employee’s personnel number.
  3. Select the current Basic Pay record (infotype 0008) by entering the name or number of the infotype in the Infotype field.
  4. Choose Copy.
  5. The current Basic Pay record is displayed in copy mode.

  6. Enter the start date of the new record.
  7. Caution

    You must enter a start date for the increase in payments. Otherwise, the copied infotype record is overwritten by the new data during saving.

  8. Enter the new payment.
  9. Save your entries.

Result

The employee’s pay increase is recorded in a new Basic Pay infotype (0008).

 

 

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