| Useful Info on Wage Type Characteristics
By : Sriram Wage type characteristics Dates - Everyone knows how important dates are in SAP – wage types are no exception. You can hold different configuration for a wage type for specific date periods. Click on the > symbol to see whether there are more records for different date periods. SAP confusingly calls the start date "Start Time" and the end date "Exit". It's pretty obvious when you look at the data itself. Amount - Minimum and maximum values – you can specify minimum and maximum values for a wage type. This is useful to stop input errors at source. Having meaningful values set here can prevent errors at the input stage rather than having to find them in your payroll exception reports or even at a later stage. The difficulty most customers find that it is very hard to decide on what values to use for each instance. Our recommendation is to configure meaningful values for most of the wage types that are input manually. You might only prevent a few incorrect inputs of data, but it may well save your organisation a lot of money. Add to total - Tick this indicator if you would like the value for this wage type to be included in the basic pay total for the employee. Input combination - This controls what values are allowed at data entry – i.e. whether you have to enter an amount or you can enter either an amount or a number with units etc. There are 5 options for both amount and number and these are controlled separately for both. The help is very useful in these fields and won't be repeated here. Time Levelling and Time Sheet Basic hours - Defines whether the wage type is a wage type for basic hours or a bonus wage type. The indicator is used for time levelling. Can't say that I have used this very often in SAP. Number / Unit Time Unit / Measurement - This allows you to stipulate the hours, months, years, shares etc If you have stipulated that the user is to enter units on the input combination, then you should choose one of the entries from the drop down. Minumum and Maximum Number - This is the threshold value for minimum and maximum amount which can be entered for a wage type in the Basic pay infotype (0008). If you create or change a wage type in the Basic pay infotype (0008), the system checks the minimum value of a wage type against the created or changed value. If the value entered in the infotype exceeds the defined minimum value for the wage type, the system issues the relevant information message. Indirect Valuation Indirect Evaluation Module -You can use the indirect evaluation module to output various default values for wage types on different infotypes. The most commonly used ones are as follows: TARIF - this method valuates according to the "collective agreement group and level" specifications you enter in the IMG. Wage types with TARIF will use the settings on the wage type and the values held in table T510 to populate the relevant value into the relevant infotype. There are 4 different module variants for TARIF – A, B, C and D. See the SAP help for more assistance. PRZNT - this is used where you have a wage type being a constant percentage of another wage type and wish this to be shown on the infotype. The wage type in question and the wage type that the percentage is based upon (base WT), are all held in table T539J. ANSAL - this is used in table T539J for the wage types which you would like to be accumulated and shown as Annual Salary on screen 2010 on infotype 0008 – Basic Pay. SUMME - very similar to the 'PRZNT' module except that the value of the wage type to be valuated indirectly is always the entire basic pay. There are different module variants, which can be viewed in more detail in the SAP help. CONST - Module for constant valuation of wage types according to table T510K (V_T510K view). The module variants are either blank, M or P. Module Variant - there are different module variants based on the different methods chosen. Please look at the SAP help using the F1 key. There are too many to list on this page. The help is not very detailed in this area – but fortunately there are other helpful documents within SAP in other areas. The best thing is to just have a go. If you are still stuck, then there are the traditional SAP help sites on the Web. Reduction Method - there are a few different options here. The help documentation is fairly clear about how each method can be used. Rounding Type - this is either A, B, C or blank (no rounding type used). The help documentation is fairly useful. Rounding Divisor - put in here whether you wish to round to the nearest 1 pence or cent or put it 100 if you wish to round to the nearest pound or dollar etc. Rewritable - you tick this checkbox if you want to allow the users to be able to overwrite any of the number, units or amounts that have been defaulted by indirect evaluation. Don't tick if you wish to stop the user from overwriting anything.
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