Personnel Areas/SubAreas

Personnel Areas

123 Groups

1000-1 2000-1 3000-1

Personnel Areas 1000-Location-1 1100-Location-2 3000-Location-1 3100-Location-2

A personnel area is a Personnel Administration specific unit and is the subunit of the company code. The individual personnel areas in a company code have four digit alphanumeric idetifiers. The pesonnel areas within a client must be clear.

The personnel area has the following functions :-
1. It allows you to generate default values for data entry, for e.g. for the payroll accounting area.
2. It is a selection criteria for reporting.
3. It constitutes a unit in authorization checks.

Personnel Subareas

123 Groups

1000-Country 2000-Country 3000-Country

1000-1 2000-1 3000-1

1000-Location-1 1100-Location-2 3000-Location-1 3100-Location-2

Personnel SubAreas 1101 1102 3001
Head Office Production Sales

The principal organizational aspects of human resources are controlled at this level, namely the pay scale and wage, type structures and the planning of work schedules.

The main organizational functions of the peronnel subarea are as follows:-
1. To specify the country grouping. Master data entry and the setting up and processing of wage types
and pay scale groups in payroll depend on the country grouping. The grouping must be unique
within a company code.
2. To assign a legal person which differentiates between companies in legal terms.
3. To set groupings for Time Mangement so that work schedules and substitution, absence and leave
types can be set up for individual personnel subareas.
4. To generate a default pay scale type and area for an emplyee's basic pay.
5. To define a public holiday calendar.
6. To define subarea-specific wage types for each personnel area.

Personnel Structure
For administrative purposes, the employees in an enterprise are divided into two levels.
1. The highest level is an employee group, the second, employee subgroup.
2. These levels are subject to authorization checks, to define remuneration levels or different work
schedules, for e.g.

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