1. What do you mean by planned times? Where are these stored for an employee? 
Ans: 
Planned specifications for an employee's working time are stored in the Planned Working Time infotype (0007). However, there are often changes to the specified working times, for example, if an employee works overtime, does not come to work (due to illness, for example), attends a seminar, or works different times than usual. In addition, employees are entitled to vacation and possibly further training. This and other information is stored in infotypes in Time Management. The information from these time infotypes can be transferred and processed further in time evaluation and payroll, as required.

2. What do you mean by actual times? Where are these stored for an employee?
3. What do you mean by deviations? Where are these stored for an employee? 
4. What do you mean by deviations? Where are these stored for an employee? 
5. What do you mean by negative time and positive time? Where do you use time evaluation? 
Ans:
There are two different methods for transferring employee time data to the SAP
R/3 System.
1. Recording only deviations from the work schedule
Only time data that represents an exception to the employee's work schedule is recorded. You can include the most current data, such as employee illnesses, schedule and record substitutions, and enter annual leave for employees. 
2. Recording actual times This method records all actual times, that is, all transactions such as actual working times, absences, and so on.

What is RPTIME00? 
Ans:
Time Evaluation : 
- Employees' time data is valuated in time evaluation. Time evaluation determines planned working times and overtime, manages time accounts (flextime balances, overtime, productive hours, and so on), creates wage types (for overtime or bonus wage types, for example), updates time quotas, and checks working time provisions (such as core time violations). The time wage types created during time evaluation are valuated in Payroll. Time evaluation is carried out by a time evaluation driver called RPTIME00. The steps to be carried out by RPTIME00 are specified in a personnel calculation schema.
The standard system contains several personnel calculation schemas that cover various requirements and strategies for evaluating data. Schemas are available for, amongst other things: 
- Time management that records all actual working times of employees, in addition to deviations to the work schedule.  
- Time management that only records the deviations to the work schedule.
- The processing of time data for which only the work duration, not the start and end times, are recorded.
- The processing rules for time evaluation can be modified to suit the specific requirements of your enterprise.

Required Infotypes in Time Management
In Time Management, certain master data infotype records must be available for each employee. Time management data is stored in the same master data records used in other human resources areas such as Payroll and Personnel Administration.
The following infotypes are required for the integration of time management master data records:

• Organizational Assignment (0001)
• Personal Data (0002)
• Planned Working Time (0007):

• Time Recording Information (0050):

• Absence Quotas (2006) to manage leave

6. What is RPTQTA00? What does it do?
Ans:
You can use this report to accrue time-off entitlements automatically for groups of employees or individual employees. They are then saved as records of the Absence Quotas infotype (2006).

The report generates the time-off entitlements for a generation interval that you can define. The generation interval determines the validity period of the absence quota record you create. 

7. What is time management status 7? What is it used for? 
Ans:
The Time Management status indicator is assigned to employees who take part in time evaluation.

It controls selection parameters for the time evaluation report RPTIME00. You can use the indicator to trigger different types of processing in time evaluation.You must enter a Time Management status in this field to indicate whether or not the employee participates in time evaluation.

e,g. :
The following are the standard values for the Time Management status:

Indicator 0 or BLANK:
The employee's actual times are not recorded, and his/her time data is not accounted using the time evalulation program.

Indicator 1:
The employee's actual times are recorded and he/she participates in time evaluation.
Example:

The employee's actual times are recorded at a time recording terminal.
The employee's actual times are recorded in the Attendances infotype (2002).
Indicator 2:
Employees' actual times are recorded and they take part in plant data collection. Their time data is accounted using the time evaluation program.
Example:

Employees' actual times are recorded using PDC systems.
Employees' actual times are recorded in the Attendances infotype (2002).
Indicator 8:
This indicator is intended for external employees. The employee's actual times are not recorded, attendances are recorded in the Attendances infotype (2002), and time data is accounted in time evaluation.

Indicator 9:
You can use indicator 9 for employees for whom only exceptions to the work schedule are recorded. In this case, the employees' actual times are not recorded, but they do participate in time evaluation.

SAP Reference Books:
SAP HR, FI, CO, MM, PP, SD, PM, PS, QM, SM, BW, APO, Basis,  ABAP/4, Certification, Books

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