1. Objective

I hope this article gives you an idea how to use processing types in time management to flag your records n time evaluation in order to control their loading in payroll.

2. How can use this method

Almost companies in my country are running payroll in monthly period but not from 1^st to 31th. The period usually is 21^st to 20 or 26^th to 25^th. I had lots of issues to implement this solution and already have some because our legal reports for insurance must be report from 1^st to 31th.

During considering different methods to solve this issues I learned a lot about time management, payroll and time and payroll integration. 

One of common issues in time and payroll integration is pay overtime from last month. For example if you would pay the overtime in a period like 26^th to 25^th or any other an your regular payroll period and you would transfer the exact overtime hours from last period this is the solution for you.

Obviously there is other method for this issue which I would explain in second part of this article if I found time.

It's my please to thanks a lot Luis and Pablo, my friends who are senior PY and PT consultants and helped me a lot during finding solution. I dedicate this article to them

3. Requirement

A client who is running payroll from 1^st to 31th would pay overtime from last month 26^th to 25^th of current month.

4. Solution ( Time management side)

I am sure you are almost familiar with following 3 most common use processing types in time management:

A: Absence

S: Planned work

M: Overtime

K: Break

4.1 Create your own processing type in V_T510V.

My processing type is Z and I call it "Delta overtime". I will use this processing type to flag my overtime records from 26^th till 31th of month.

4.2 Create time type selection rules in V_T510S. A rule for month overtime which comes from 1^st to 25th

And the second for delta overtime(26^th to 31th) which will pay in next month.

4.3 Make a copy of PCR TO20 and TO21 with a small change. I put my PCR's name >O20 and >O21 as you see I just add a "Z" to GENOT operation. GENOT use to create overtime pairs. To see help of GENOT please push F1 in this operation.

4.4 I am using IT2007 to generate overtime because of a special requirement I had. I just change the TO20 with my new PCR(>O20).

But to control the date you should add an IF… ELSE … ENDIF structure. So I prefer to replace GOT  TO20 15  ASC with a subschema like this

In ZZOV subschema PCR: >TEP controls if current day is after 25^th or not. If it's after the PCR returns False and main schema(ZZOV) will consider >O20 otherwise the normal PCR(TO20) will run.

Maybe HRS=DSCDY is a bit strange for you because I had my own mapping of Shamsi calendar days into Gregorian so you if you are using Gregorian calendar you can use HRS=BCURDY for example to return current of payroll period (You can use VARSTREDAY or VARSTCURMO but take care both are working based on time evaluation period not payroll period)

4.5 Copy subschema into main schema and disable one line.

4.6 Put a line in your schema to process the delta overtime

5. Run time evaluation to see the result.

I have put 2 hours overtime for 10^th and 3 hours for 30^th of current month.

5.1 Planned working time on 10^th of month

As you see return condition by PCR: >TEP is True.

Therefore system selects TO20 to run.

5.2 TO20 input TIP

5.3 TO20 process

5.4 TO20 output TIP

5.5 Select time wage type

5.6 Planned working time on 30^th of month. There are 3 hours of overtime.

As you see return condition by PCR: >TEP is False

5.7 >O20 input TIP

5.8 >O20 process

5.9 >O20 output TIP

5.10 Select time wage type

Now if we take a look at cluster B2 thru PT66… YES I have my overtime record. Your overtime records for after 25th will have Z processing type and the rest processing type M

6. Solution (Payroll side)

I am running international version of SAP payroll (Schema X000). Go into subschema XT00

And create your own PCR to load data from ZL into IT.

6.1 My PCR is -090 which loads all overtime records with processing type M into current payroll and save all overtime records with processing type Z in result table to load in next payroll period

6.2 We need a change to loading data from previous payroll result also to read all overtime which has saved in previous payroll result(records with processing type Z)

7. Run payroll schema to see the result.

     7.1      IMPRT  B2 loads data of cluster B2

PCR -090 will load data from ZL into IT thru OUTZL operation.

This article is under construction I will add missing screenshots as soon as possible.

           I hope you enjoy it

Omid