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What Is SAP Time and Attendance?
For many employees and employers, it’s no longer acceptable to use manual, in-person clocking in and clocking out to track time and attendance. This is even more true as remote work has become more prevalent. That’s why time and attendance software has risen in importance.
Modern time and attendance tools typically offer these features:
- Automated time and attendance at multiple locations
- Self-service time tracking
- Employee and manager self-service paid time off (PTO) requests
- Automatic application of payroll rules and policies
- Compliance and regulatory updates
- Shift scheduling.
On-premise SAP ERP HCM features a time module for entering time and attendance data. For greater functionality, SAP customers often deploy time and attendance software from companies such as Workforce Software and Kronos, which partner with SAP and create specific SAP time and attendance solutions that integrate with SAP systems, including SAP SuccessFactors. System integrators like Accenture help SAP customers implement and integrate time and attendance tools into their technology landscape.
Recently, SAP released the SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking module, a cloud-based offering that integrates with SAP SuccessFactors modules.
What Is SAP Time and Attendance?
For many employees and employers, it’s no longer acceptable to use manual, in-person clocking in and clocking out to track time and attendance. This is even more true as remote work has become more prevalent. That’s why time and attendance software has risen in importance.
Modern time and attendance tools typically offer these features:
- Automated time and attendance at multiple locations
- Self-service time tracking
- Employee and manager self-service paid time off (PTO) requests
- Automatic application of payroll rules and policies
- Compliance and regulatory updates
- Shift scheduling.
On-premise SAP ERP HCM features a time module for entering time and attendance data. For greater functionality, SAP customers often deploy time and attendance software from companies such as Workforce Software and Kronos, which partner with SAP and create specific SAP time and attendance solutions that integrate with SAP systems, including SAP SuccessFactors. System integrators like Accenture help SAP customers implement and integrate time and attendance tools into their technology landscape.
Recently, SAP released the SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking module, a cloud-based offering that integrates with SAP SuccessFactors modules.
Key SAP Time and Attendance Considerations
- Self-service SAP Time and Attendance provides benefits. The better performing companies in our recent HR Technology research were more likely to currently use or be in the process of implementing time and attendance solutions. Typically, these technologies offer self-service, which allows employees and managers to conduct key time and attendance functions without the involvement of an HR professional. This saves time on all sides, as requests are submitted and approved without paperwork and without an intermediary.
- Automation creates efficiency and accuracy. Automating HR processes saves considerable work hours for HR staff. If your time and attendance processes are manual, you may have HR employees that spend considerable hours each week logging, filing, and verifying timecards. Those are hours that can be saved with time and attendance automation that features automatic application of important payroll rules and policies. Without the extra manual steps, there is also less possibility of data entry errors.
- Keep the employee experience in Companies in our recent employee experience research that rated their employee experience above average were twice as likely to be currently using workforce management (WFM) solutions. WFM solutions include self-service time and attendance functionality, making it easier for employees to view their time and attendance information.
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Time and Attendance: The Foundation of an HXM Digital Transformation StrategySep 6, 2023 — The workforce is constantly changing and evolving, and workers have different needs and ambitions than in years past. Employees want to work at an organization where they can easily accomplish tasks, like their coworkers, and provide personal and career fulfillment.
One solution many organizations are now turning to in order to maximize the potential of their employees is time and attendance functionality, such as the one provided by Workforce Software. Leading organizations that feel they are ahead of the HXM market have a much higher usage rate of these functions. Time and attendance solutions help deliver ROI and keep workforces engaged by providing business leaders with a holistic view of their workforce.
In this article, we will examine some of the key benefits of time and attendance solutions, including support for deskless workers, providing analytics, and offering a roadmap of career performance for employees.
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Streamlining Complex Time Evaluation Business Scenarios in SAP Time EvaluationFeb 14, 2023 — The article covers the SAP Time Evaluation Internal Forced recalculation functionality that adds additional flexibility to the SAP Time Evaluation. However, this functionality does not address the issue of master data changes and sometimes requires additional efforts (like rerunning Time Evaluation before payroll) to make the results accurate. The article suggests a straight-forward Checksum solution that resolves this problem. The solution does not change the Time Evaluation work and process flows, and can be applied to any custom solutions. This is important before the migration to S4HANA and after the migration as it streamlines Time Evaluation business processes regardless of whether they are done through standard schedulers/splitter or process models transactions or detailed solution descriptions.
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Looking at the Growth of SAP SuccessFactors Time ManagementJan 9, 2023 — In 2021, SAP SuccessFactors launched a new solution called SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking. Since that time, there have been many significant innovations in the product and large customer growth and adoption. Read this blog to learn about some of the key innovations and functionality delivered over the last few years.
SAP SuccessFactors initially started building its cloud Core HR (Employee Central) well over 10 years ago. It has now grown to over 5,000 customers as of 2022. In those early days, the plan for Time and Attendance Management was to build it along with the Core HR platform. SAP had a rich history of time management with its on-premise solution. Thousands of customers used that solution, including some of the most complex organizations in the world.
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Interactive Discussion | The current state of time management and workforce managementMay 6, 2021 — Time management is an evolving topic within SAP SuccessFactors that is very important to customers across all industries. In this interactive session you will hear industry experts and customers discuss the current state of time management options and how the latest releases may impact the journey from on-premise to the cloud. Join this session to:
- Hear real-world customer experiences with SAP SuccessFactors Time Off
- Hear how solutions like Workforce Software can be used to meet more complex time requirements
- Discuss the recent announcement of the new SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking solution to understand its scope and use cases
- Get answers to your questions from the experts on the panel
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SAP Announces Planned Release of SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking SolutionDec 15, 2020 — SAP announced the upcoming release of its new SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking solution. The new cloud-based solution is designed to provide real-time views into employee time entry data and will include functionality for entering and approving time, managing labor costs, and will help customers maintain compliance with local regulations.
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VINCI Energies Simplifies Employees’ Lives with New Timesheet-Entry ApplicationFeb 26, 2019 —
On the heels of its migration to SAP S/4HANA, professional services company VINCI Energies wanted to extend the new functionality with a new application for employee timesheet entry that would replace former manual, paper-based processes. Learn how the business designed and developed the online app using SAP Cloud Platform, and how this application is creating more advanced capabilities for workers and managers who need to keep track of hours and other associated costs applied to individual projects from the field.
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Automate FLSA Rules in Time Evaluation to Manage the Complex ProcessSep 26, 2017 — Learn how to customize schema and configure rules in SAP ERP HCM to process the time recordings of nonexempt union staff as per union agreements to derive the regular and premium (time-and-a-half and double-time) hours to be paid. Key Concept The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was enacted to govern wage and hour laws in […]
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How to Customize Schemas and Personnel Calculation Rules to Implement Time Evaluation in SAP ERP HCMAug 1, 2017 — Learn how to customize schemas and configure rules in SAP ERP HCM to process the time recordings of employees to derive the regular and premium (time-and-a-half and double-time) hours to be paid. Key Concept The SAP ERP HCM time evaluation program uses a sequence of functions (called schemas) to read an employee’s master data (e.g., […]
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SAP Time Management: Understanding and Using Standard Time Types in Time Evaluation for Reporting and Simplifying Custom ContentApr 7, 2016 — Learn about standard SAP Time Management time types and how to use them in reporting—and when creating your own schema rules—to leverage the available standard time type data that is calculated by SAP-delivered schema rules. Learn how to use delivered time types to efficiently create rules, and to find and use standard but underutilized reporting […]
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