Time Management

Functional Overview

Time Management enables you to manage an employee's working times, absence times, time credits, and approvals for working times. Laws, collective agreements, company policy, and company regulations determine which time accounts must be set up. Time Management can be used to:

Check personnel times
Create statistics
Allow flexible working times
Satisfy time-recording responsibilities required by authorities and company's own employees

For more information, see SAP Library for SAP ERP on SAP Help Portal at: http://help.sap.com/erp.

Prerequisites

The SAP ERP system must be configured for this user to use Time Management as mentioned in the section Settings for Time Management Application — OData Channel.

Service and Metadata Documents

Use the links given in the table below to access the service document and metadata document for Time Management:

Service Document	`http://<hostname>:<port>/sap/opu/sdata/iwcnt/employeetime/?$format=xml&sap-client=<client number>`
Metadata Document	`http://<hostname>:<port>/sap/opu/sdata/iwcnt/employeetime/$metadata?$format=xml&sap-client=<client number>`

Note

Contact your system administrator for host name and client number.

Collections

Collections are objects that hold other objects that are accessed, placed and maintained under certain set of rules. This section lists the collections for Time Management and the rules enabled for each collection.

Collections	Description
ActivityTypeCollection	The Activity type collection provides details of the activity produced by a cost center, and is measured in units of time or quantity
CostCenterCollection	The Cost Center collection provides details of the defined location of cost incurrence. The Cost Center is an organizational unit within a controlling area that represents a defined location of cost incurrence. It identifies the cost center that is debited along with the employee's personnel costs, and that is credited by an activity allocation in the activity allocation master/sender cost center scenario
ReceiverOrderCodeCollection	This collection provides the details of the order number assigned to the employee
WorkBreakdownStructureCollection	The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) ID collection provides details of a concrete task, or a partial task of the employee
TimeRecordingCollection	The Time Recording collection provides the details of the time recording of an employee such as the beginning and end of working times or breaks.

Reference

For more information, see SAP Library for SAP ERP on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/erp.

In SAP Portal, SAP ERP SAP ERP Central Component (Open the documentation) Expand SAP ERP Central Component Expand Human Resources Choose Personnel Time Management .