Infotype is used to store personal data about an employee. An Infotype contains four digit code and name of Infotype. Example  − Infotype 002 contains employee personal data- like name, date of birth, marital status, etc. Each Infotype has two fields − Mandate fields  − A tick mark sign in the field box represents these fields. Option fields  − These fields are not mandatory and can have a blank value. There are predefined number ranges that SAP has defined for Infotype. HR and Payroll Data Infotype → 0000 to 0999 Organizational Data → Infotype 1000 to 1999 Time Data → Infotype 2000 to 2999 You can further divide an Infotype into groups, which are called subtypes. For example, an Infotype Address, Infotype 0006 can be divided into subtypes - Permanent Residence and Emergency address. Creating an Infotype To create an Infotype follow the given steps − Step 1  − Use T-code: PA30. Step 2  − A new window  Maintain HR Ma...

Maintaining the HR Master Data function allows you to maintain employee data tasks like entering the data, update, etc. Data related to an employee is entered in various Infotypes. For example, Infotype 0002 contains personal information of an employee like name, date of birth, marital status, etc. Infotypes are used to group similar data and makes it easier to process. Maintaining HR Master Data function allows you to access an employee’s Infotype records individually. Similarly, you can use fast entry function to maintain employee data simultaneously for multiple employees. Performing a Personnel action in HR system like hiring an employee, involves entering huge data in the system. You have to enter series of Infotype information related to an employee. HR Master Data Structure The key components for HR Master Data in SAP Human Capital Management system are as follows − Information type or known as Infotype Information subtype or known as Info subtype Object Identifi...

SAP HR - Personnel administration consists of many individual pieces of information, which are stored, updated and managed for each employee in HR system. To manage personnel data related to tasks in HR system, you need Personnel Administration. There are various Infotypes that can be used for Personnel Administration. Commonly used Personnel Administration Infotypes are − Organization Management Infotypes Time Management Infotypes Recruitment Infotypes Organization Structure Organizational structures is used in HR to plan and map the organizational levels of an organization to control and simplify processes such as time recording and payroll. Typical components in an organizational structures include − Enterprise structure Pay scale structure Wage types Personnel structure User authorizations In Organization hierarchy, you define the subdivision of company into personnel areas, sub areas, company code, etc. Using different grouping, you can create organizationa...

In SAP HR system, Infotypes are used to store the data for all the personnel actions and administrative tasks in the system. Infotypes are known as small units of information in SAP HR system. Infotypes group the similar data together and define structure, enter data and define the information for specific period of time. Components of Infotypes An Infotype consists of the following components − Structure An Infotype contains a set of similar data records in the form of data structure. Infotype contains series of information like first name, last name, date of birth, marital status, etc. When an Infotype is updated in the system, old data is not removed from the system but time is delimited. Data Entry You can enter predefined values for Infotype that helps in fetching and maintaining the data in the system. Entries in HR system are checked automatically for accuracy. Default value checks depend on the employee organization assignment. Time Dependency When an Infoty...

Time constraints are used to determine how the object type exists and how they will be updated in the HR system. You can also define time constraints for object types in Organization management to have a suitable system. You need not to keep orphan object types in the system. O - O → Time Constraint 1 O - S → Time Constraint 2 O - K → Time Constraint 3 S - O → Time Constraint 4 S - P → Time Constraint 5 There are three types of time constraints − Time Constraint 1  is mandatory for a record to exist in the HR system and can exist one at any point of time. Time Constraint 2  is not mandatory for a record but only one exists at any point of time. Time Constraint 3  is not mandatory for a record and can have many at any point of time. Assigning Time Constraints to a relation Step 1  − To assign time constraints to a relation, you have to use − SPRO → IMG → Personnel Management → Organizational Management → Basic Settings → Data model enhanc...

In an Organization plan, relationships are used to link different object types. Example  − A person holding a position in an organization is assigned with cost center. It defines a Person to position relationship and position to Organization unit. While defining a hierarchical organization structure, it means you are creating a relationship between organization objects. When a person is holding a position in an organization unit, it means there is relationship between position object and organization object. A relationship can be created in both the ways- top down and bottom approach. These relationships are normally maintained in  HRP001  table. If these relationships are not standard, you may need additional tables. To maintain relationship, use  T-Code: PP01 or PP03 . A new window will open with the name  Maintain Object . Select the Object type, enter position number, give relationship and click create (F5). Object Types and Essential Relat...

SAP Human Capital Management (SAP HCM) is one of the key modules in SAP and is also called SAP Human Resource (HR) or SAP Human Resource Management System (SAP HRMS). SAP HCM contains many submodules and all these modules are integrated with each other. The key modules are as follows − Organizational Management  − Organizational Management includes Personnel development, Personnel cost planning and event management. Time Management  − Time management includes time recording, attendance, time schedule, shift management, etc. Personnel Administration  − Personnel Administration includes personal and organizational structure, Infotypes, integration with time and payroll, etc. Payroll  − Payroll deals with payroll types, payroll group configuration, primary and secondary wages, gross pay, bonus, etc. Recruitment  − Recruitment includes hiring an employee, maintaining HR master data, etc. Training and Event Management  − Training and Event ...