SAP HCM (HR) Organizational Structure Basics: What is Personnel Subarea?

Personnel sub areas are a subdivision of the Personnel Area. Personnel Subareas are used in personnel administration, personnel time management, and payroll accounting in SAP. In Customizing, the personnel subarea is identified by a four-digit alphanumeric key. The respective country-specific control features are stored here.

The most important organizational functions of personnel subareas are:

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SAP HCM (HR) Organizational Structure Basics: What is Personnel Area ?

In SAP, Personnel Areas represent a subdivision of the company code, applicable to employees. The individual personnel areas in a company code are defined in Customizing and have a four-digit alphanumeric identifier. The personnel area is only used in Personnel Administration and is unique within the client. They perform the following functions:

  • enables the generation of default values for data entry (eg determination of payroll accounting areas);
  • acts as a selection criterion for reporting; and
  • acts as a unit in authorisation checks.

Although a Personnel Area can only belong to one company code, they are further divided into Personnel Subareas.

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SAP HCM (HR) Certification Self-Study Notes

For those aspirants want to clear SAP HCM (HR) Certification exam, this documentation will be a good reference for self study. Though notes are not exhaustive, you will find salient points jotted down from THR10 and THR12 (required materials for HCM certification) which will be extremely helpful if you are going to appear exam shortly.

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User Guide to Purchase Requisition Management in SAP MM

Purchase requisition in SAP is a document which is created by purchase department prior to the purchase process.
After completing this material, you will be able to:

  • Use transaction ME51N, ME52N and ME53N for purchase requisitions
  • Create a purchase requisition without a material
  • Create a purchase requisition with a material
  • Create a purchase requisition for a service

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SAP CO Cost Center Accounting Configuration Guide

The controlling area configuration is the starting point of configuration in the CO module, which will then enable us to configure profit center, product costing and then the profitability analysis module.

In this e-book, cost center accounting configurations will be covered.

  • Organizational Structures
  • Maintain Controlling Area, Maintain Number Ranges for Controlling Documents, Maintain Versions

  • Multiple Valuation Approaches/Transfer Prices
  • Maintain Currency and Valuation Profile, Assign Currency and Valuation Profile to Controlling Area

  • Production Start-Up Preparation
  • Cost Element Accounting
  • Create Batch Input Session

  • Reconciliation Ledger
  • Activate/Deactivate Reconciliation Ledger, Define Adjustment Accounts for Reconciliation Posting

  • Cost Center Accounting
  • Define Standard Hierarchy, Create Cost Center, Create Activity Types

  • Cost Center Planning
  • Define Distribution, Create Assessment Cost Elements, Define Allocation Structures, Define Assessment, Define Splitting Structure

  • Actual Postings

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