Purpose
The Time Evaluation component valuates employees’ working times and absence times. Time evaluation calculates planned times and overtime, administrates time accounts and forms wage types, updates time quotas, and is used to check working time specifications.
Implementation Considerations
You should implement the Time Evaluation component if you use time recording systems to record employees’ attendance times (actual times).
If you use other methods of time recording, the component is optional. Time data entered online can also be evaluated on a daily basis in the Integration with Time Management component in Payroll. The only functions available there are for determining wage types.
Integration
Possible Integration with Other Time Management Components
Possible Integration with Other Human Resources Components
Possible Integration with Other SAP Components
Features
Choice of Several Standard Processing Methods
The standard system provides several time evaluation processes, which have different requirements on the time data to be evaluated and evaluate data using different methods:
The Time Evaluation component valuates employees’ working times and absence times. Time evaluation calculates planned times and overtime, administrates time accounts and forms wage types, updates time quotas, and is used to check working time specifications.
Implementation Considerations
You should implement the Time Evaluation component if you use time recording systems to record employees’ attendance times (actual times).
If you use other methods of time recording, the component is optional. Time data entered online can also be evaluated on a daily basis in the Integration with Time Management component in Payroll. The only functions available there are for determining wage types.
Integration
Possible Integration with Other Time Management Components
| Desired Function | Required Component |
| Transferring data from time recording systems | Personnel Time Events |
Possible Integration with Other Human Resources Components
| Desired Function | Required Component |
| Determining wage types for calculation of the gross wage | Payroll |
| Desired Function | Required Component |
| Tracking work performed in Purchasing | Materials Management |
Choice of Several Standard Processing Methods
The standard system provides several time evaluation processes, which have different requirements on the time data to be evaluated and evaluate data using different methods:
- Time evaluation for processing time data that is imported to the SAP System from time recording systems
- Time evaluation for time management where only deviations to the work schedule are recorded, and not all employees’ attendance times
- Evaluation of external employees’ time data for External Services Management
- Time evaluation for processing time data where the duration of work performed, and not the start and end times, is required for checking working time regulations, overtime determination, and so on
- Time evaluation determines overtime and bonus wage types and automatically takes account of public holidays, weekdays, or conditions on the duration or time of work performed.
- Time evaluation enables you to administrate time accounts, which can be individually defined. If necessary, it can check to ensure that values do not exceed or fall short of value limits.
- Overtime, productive hours, absence times, and so on
- Flextime balances
- Annual working time accounts
- Time evaluation issues messages when specific situations occur, for example, or if working time regulations are not adhered to. You can define your own messages for any situation. You can also order time evaluation to abort if particular errors occur.
- You can display a statement of the balances determined each day for employees’ information.
- You can modify time evaluation processing rules to suit the specific requirements of your enterprise.
- The process flow and results of a time evaluation run are logged and can be displays in different levels of detail.
- The results are saved to the database for specific days. This enables the results to be monitored for exact days, and it guarantees a recalculation without gaps.
- A recalculation of periods that have already been evaluated is triggered automatically if changes are made to an employee’s time data or important master data after the first time evaluation run.
- You can simulate time evaluation to estimate the amount of overtime or to calculate the expected absence entitlements, for example. The results determined in a simulation are not saved to the database.