Use

You can use this function to record activities that do not have anything to do with the actual activities in the warehouse such as picking or putaway. An example of this is sweeping the yard. You can use indirect labor to record all activities of your employees in the system without any gaps.

You record indirect labor in the system using indirect labor tasks.

For each indirect labor task confirmed, the system automatically creates a document for executed workload. This enables you to evaluate indirect labor tasks in the warehouse management monitor, and to create performance documents.

Integration

No other functions are required to be able to record indirect labor tasks.

Prerequisites

You have activated order document management for indirect labor tasks in Customizing for EWM for each client.

In the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM, choose Labor Management → Activate Order Document Management for Indirect Labor Tasks.

You have activated Labor Management at warehouse-number level and for internal process step INDL (indirect labor). You have also maintained external process steps for internal process step INDL . For example, HOKE for routine tasks, MAIN for maintenance tasks, MEET for meetings. You can define any number of external process steps to be used in indirect labor tasks in Customizing.

In the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM, choose Labor Management → Activate Labor Management.

In the business partner, you have created the processors for which you want to record indirect labor tasks.

On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose SCM Basis → Master Data → Resource → Processor

If you are processing indirect labor tasks in the RF environment, you have defined the User Name field for the processor in the employee data on the Identification tab page . On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose SCM Basis → Master Data → Resource → Processor

You have created a number range interval for indirect labor tasks.

In the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM, choose Labor Management → Determine Number Range for Indirect Labor.

If you want to create indirect labor tasks for groups, you have to define an internal number range interval.

If you only want to use individual indirect labor tasks, you can also use an external number range interval.

If you are working with exception codes for indirect labor tasks, you have to define corresponding exception codes.

In the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM, choose Cross-Process Settings → Exception Handling → Definition of Exception Codes.

You use business context IL0 Indirect Labor Task

The execution step for the desktop for exception codes is A1 Desktop Unspecified

The execution step in the RF environment for exception codes is A2 RF Unspecified

The exception codes for indirect labor tasks do not require internal process codes.

You can connect indirect labor to the workflow using internal structure /SCWM/S_ILT_INT.

Features

You call the function from the SAP Easy Access screen, by choosing Extended Warehouse Management → Labor Management → Maintain Indirect Labor Task

You can use the enhanced search to make selections for one or more indirect labor tasks, such as for the warehouse number or the assignment key.

When creating indirect labor tasks for a group, the group responsible can define an assignment key. He or she can later use this, for example, to select indirect labor tasks belonging to this assignment key, by way of a collective confirmation.

You can create indirect labor tasks for groups, such as for team meetings or for individual processors:

Employees and group responsibles can change, select, and display indirect labor tasks if they have the required authorization and if the indirect labor task does not yet have the status Completed

You can delete any indirect labor tasks that were not processed. You can no longer delete indirect labor tasks that have the status Completed

You can archive indirect labor tasks.

Perform mass changes

You can simultaneously set the start and end times for multiple indirect labor tasks. For example, a group responsible can select the relevant indirect labor task at the end of a group meeting, and set the end time and therefore the status Completed for everyone collectively.

Record start and end time

For indirect labor tasks, you can set start and end times either by entering them manually, or by choosing a pushbutton. The status is set to In Process or Completed

You can set the status for indirect labor tasks. If you select the status In Process , the start time is set at the same time. If you select the status Completed , the end time is set at the same time.

You can create a note, to specify an instruction for the indirect labor task, for example.

You can specify an activity area for the indirect labor task, for evaluation purposes, and for location details that define the execution location.

If a warehouse executes activities for multiple parties entitled to dispose, it may be important to know for which party a particular indirect labor task was performed.

You can use the planned execution duration to create an indirect labor task for correction purposes, through which you can credit an employee with planned time.

While processing a pick order, an employee encounters problems with his or her resource (fork lift), meaning that he or she significantly exceeds the planned time. To compensate for this surpassed planned time, you can create an indirect labor task with external process step KORR for corrections. You use this to record a planned time over the difference between actual and planned time of the pick order, and set the status to Completed . This credits planned time to the employee, which was missing in his or her pick task without it being his or her fault.

If an exception occurs while processing an indirect labor task, for example, if a tool for a particular maintenance activity breaks, the employee can input an exception code in the indirect labor task. You can evaluate the exception codes in the warehouse management monitor. You define the exception codes that you want to use for indirect labor tasks in Customizing for EWM.

Example

Example 1

A group responsible creates an indirect labor task for his or her employees. The activity that is to be done is “sweep yard“.

The affected employee selects the indirect labor tasks defined for him or her either on the desktop or using RF, and either sets the status to In Process or enters a start time. After completing the task, the employee sets the status to Completed or enters the end time.

Example 2

At the end of a working day, an employee calls the function for processing indirect labor tasks, and records the indirect labor tasks that he or she has completed during the day. The employee creates an indirect labor task for activity routine work, from 8:00 – 8:30, a period in which he or she charged their fork lift battery.

In addition, after completing his or her pick orders, this employee spent half an hour between 11:30h – 12:00h sweeping the yard. The employee also creates an indirect labor task for this. For the rest of the day, the employee has executed workload documents for the pick warehouse orders they have completed. This means that the employee has seamlessly documented everything he or she has done during the entire working day.