Offline Travel Expenses allows your employees to enter their travel expenses, regardless of location and without requiring them to be connected to SAP R/3. At the end of this process, travel expense information is processed in SAP R/3 and the correct information is then transferred to the target applications in Travel Management.

The process for entering travel expenses using Offline Travel Expenses is made up of the following steps:

1. The employee starts Offline Travel Expenses
2. He creates a new offline trip
3. He enters receipts for the new trip
4. He assigns exiting receipts to the new trip, if required
5. He sets the synchronization flag for the trip and the receipts
6. Offline Travel Expenses checks the data and issues warning and/or error messages where appropriate
7. The employee starts synchronization with the R/3 System
   
   The synchronization process only synchronizes data where the synchronization indicator has been set. This allows you to control which data should be synchronized.

• Offline Travel Expenses sends new or changed trips to the R/3 system.
• SAP R/3 checks the data and sends the check results to Offline Travel Expenses.

1. If the data check in SAP R/3 results in errors, the corresponding messages are sent to Offline Travel Expenses. The employee can then process these error messages offline at a later point in time (connection to SAP R/3 is not required). The corrected data records are transferred from the offline application to SAP R/3 during the next synchronization.

The travel expense information, created and entered offline by the user, is transferred to SAP R/3 and is saved without errors.