The travel expenses must be prepared using the country-specific preliminary program for data medium exchange so that the data can be processed by the country-specific payment program. You need the program run date and the identification feature from each preliminary program run.
Choose Travel Expenses .
The
Travel Expenses
screen
appears.
Choose
Edit
→
Bank transfer
→
Create DME
When you log on to an SAP system and start a bank transfer program for the first time, the
Country grouping
screen appears.
Enter the relevant personnel country grouping.
The personnel country grouping chosen here will not be deleted when you leave the program. As long as you have not logged off from the SAP system, the choice made here will be used by the system automatically each time you start a bank transfer program. In order to change the country grouping without logging off from the SAP system, you can call the
Country Grouping
screen from the
Travel Expenses
screen again. ChooseF20
Choose
Continue
The
Payment medium <country>
screen appears.
Enter the program run date and the identification feature.
Do
not select the
Proposal run only
field in connection with Travel Management, since this is a specific function of financial accounting which is not supported by Human Resources Management.
Check the
Further selections
group box to see if the country-specific method of payment is entered.
Make sure that the
Data medium exchange
field in the
Print control
group box is selected.
To start the payment program, choose
Program
→
Execute.
The program creates a sequential file that is transferred to the house bank either online or via disk. The house bank can pay the employee for the trip expenses on the basis of this information.