| # To use the People package The People package enables users to enter and process hours and expenses. The costs resulting from this processing are then booked to the logistic packages: Project, Manufacturing, Service, and Financials. After the appropriate master data have been entered, the following main steps can be carried out in People: Enter hours/expenses Enter budgets (optional) Approve hours/expenses (optional) Process hours/expenses Update budgets with actual hours (optional) Archive hours/expenses Enter hours/expenses You can enter hours in one of the following ways: Registration for a single employee or team In the hours accounting sessions, you can enter hours for a single employee or team. In the latter case, you can distribute the hours entered among the members of the team using the Distribute Team Hours option. For Production and PCS Project hours, you can also enter machine time. For both a single employee or an entire team, you can easily distribute actual hours for a task by generating hours lines for a period range, using working time schedules. Note that you cannot use working time schedules for general tasks or Project hours. Global registration for a range of employees or specific employees You can use the Global Registration of Hours (bptmm1201m000) session to collectively enter hours for a range of employees. Use the Spec. Employees button to enter and use a list of specific employees. To further speed up data entry and to preserve system performance, you can use the following sessions: User Profiles (bpmdm0102m000) Copy Hours and Expenses (bptmm1210m000) Delete Hours and Expenses (bptmm1206m000) Use Assignments (bptmm1204m000) To manually enter expenses, you can use the following sessons: General Expenses (bptmm1111m300) Project Expenses (bptmm1111m100) Enter budgets (optional) You can enter budgets by employee, by team, and by department. This enables you to compare the budgeted hours with the actual hours entered by employees. After processing, the actual hours can be displayed alongside the budgeted hours in the Budget by Employee (bptmm3100m000) session. In this session, the Variance in Hours field will then display the difference between the budgeted hours and the actual hours. Approve hours/expenses (optional) If, in the People Parameters (bpmdm0100m000) session, the In Batches option is chosen and the Approval Required check box is selected, perform the following steps to approve hours or expenses: Save entered hours or expenses. Complete one of the following steps: Start the Global (Undo) Approve Hours and Expenses (bptmm1202m000) session. Approve the hours or expenses in the applicable sessions for each line: on the appropriate menu, choose Approve Hours. Process hours/expenses When hours are processed, labor costs are calculated based on actual hours. The costs are then booked to the appropriate logistic package, and finally to Financials. When expenses are processed, the following happens: Project expenses are booked to Project, then to Financials. General expenses are booked to Financials straightaway. Depending on the option selected in the People Parameters (bpmdm0100m000) session, you can process hours/expenses using either of the following methods: Direct Hours or expenses are processed immediately after you close the applicable session. Note that if this option is selected, you can choose Direct Processing on the appropriate menu to have hours or expenses processed without closing the session. In Batches Hours and/or expenses are only processed after you run the Process Hours and Expenses (bptmm1203m000) session. Note To check the hours and/or expenses of a range of employees, authorized users can use the Print Hours and Expenses (Completeness Check) (bptmm1410m000) session. For the Production Order, Assembly Order, and PCS Project transaction types, you can use the Day-End Hours Accounting Processing (bptmm1205m000) session to process hours for the activities or operations that have status Closed. Update budgets with actual hours (optional) After processing hours, you can update employees' budgets by using the Update Budget by Employee with Actual Hours (bptmm3201m000) session. Archive hours/expenses Budget data and hours/expenses data is stored in the hstory tables of People. If you want to store this data in the archive company, make sure to select the Archive Company check box in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000) session. Successively, reference and hours/expenses data is archived for People, Project, Service, and Manufacturing. In any of the archiving sessions, select the appropriate Run Type option to indicate the action(s) to be carried out. You can also choose to archive the master data in Common and People. Related topics Backflushing and People Capacity flows To distribute team hours To enter master data for People To redefine budget granularity To work with hours accounting Working time schedules |