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 Manager's Desktop

Use

Manager's Desktop assists in the performance of administrative and organizational management tasks. In addition to functions in Personnel Management, Manager's Desktop also covers other application components like Controlling, where it supports manual planning or the information system for cost centers.

Prerequisites

  • You use the HR system to manage your organizational structure.

  • You created one or more positions. You can also enter the position directly in the organizational unit.

  • You have assigned a position (that is also a chief position) to the user in question.

You have assigned a cost center to every position.

For more information, see:

  • In Customizing for Cost Center Accounting, you assigned function codes to individual planner profiles and planning layouts.

Features

For the planner profiles and planning layouts selected, you can access manual planning from Manager's Desktop by branching to the HR system.

Activities

To plan using Manager's Desktop , proceed as follows:

  1. Choose Start of the navigation path Human resources Next navigation step Manager's Next navigation step Desktop Next navigation step Costs + Budget. End of the navigation path

  2. On the right screen area, select the Cost center assignment tab strip, and choose an assigned cost center.

  3. Cost centers are indicated by a "K", positions by an "S", and organizational units with an "O".

  4. In the structure tree, choose Start of the navigation path Controlling Next navigation step Cost Center Accounting Next navigation step Planning End of the navigation path .

  5. Select the type of planning you require, for example cost element planning, activity planning and so on.

The system branches to manual cost center planning, whereby you can only choose (using function codes) from the planner profiles and planning layouts that you selected in Customizing.

For more information on Manager's Desktop , see the SAP Library under Start of the navigation path Human Resources Next navigation step PA Personnel Management Next navigation step Manager's Desktop Next navigation step . End of the navigation path