In the Employee Self-Service
Travel Management
function, employees can do the following:
Submit a travel request
Reserve flights, hotels, and car rental for a trip online
Enter data for trips that have already taken place. The system uses this data to determine the travel expenses for the employee and to trigger reimbursement of these expenses.
The basic functions of ESS
Travel Management
are listed in the following table:
Note
For more information about the individual functions, see the SAP Library under
.Initial Screen |
|
Travel Requests |
|
Travel Plans |
|
Travel Expenses |
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Personnel numbers exist for the employees in the SAP system.
The employees have SAP ERP user names.
The user names for the employees have been stored in the infotype
Communication
(0105, subtype 01).
See also: Assigning SAP Users to Personnel Numbers
SAP provides the composite role
Employee Self-Service
(SAP_WP_EMPLOYEE). This role contains all the authorizations required. For more information, see
Setting Up ESS Users
.
General Customizing
If you want to set up SAP users, you need to make various settings in Customizing. For further information, see Customizing,
.Customizing for Travel Management
To use all parts of the
Travel Management Service
, you have to set up the
Travel Management
application component (including
Travel Planning
and
Travel Expenses
) to meet your company-specific requirements. For more information, see Customizing for
Financial Accounting
, under
Travel Management
.