Scribd
Upload
5 views6 pages

DWS

The document outlines the importance of assigning Daily Work Schedules (DWS) to employees for capturing time data, detailing the components and configuration of a DWS. It explains how to set planned working hours, breaks, and tolerance, as well as the creation of DWS variants for special cases like holidays. The document also describes the process of applying these configurations to create Periodic Work Schedules and Work Schedule Rules for employee management.

Uploaded by

srinivas.jodu564
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
5 views6 pages

DWS

The document outlines the importance of assigning Daily Work Schedules (DWS) to employees for capturing time data, detailing the components and configuration of a DWS. It explains how to set planned working hours, breaks, and tolerance, as well as the creation of DWS variants for special cases like holidays. The document also describes the process of applying these configurations to create Periodic Work Schedules and Work Schedule Rules for employee management.

Uploaded by

srinivas.jodu564
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 6

Daily Work Schedules (DWS) and

Variants
It is very imperative that we assign each employee with a Work Schedule for
whom we want to capture Time Data. Work Schedule determines the working
pattern and the number of hours that an employee has to work in a given
period.

On a high level, the components of a Work schedule are Break Schedules,


Daily Work Schedules, Periodic Work Schedule and Work Schedule Rule

In this article, we will see visit configuration of a Daily Work Schedule and
Variants for DWS.

What is a Daily Work Schedule?


A Daily Work Schedule (DWS) is set of rules that define how an employee is
expected to work on any given day. Within these rules first we need to
capture the planned hours in a given day. A DWS can very well differ from
what the employee has agreed to work on a daily basis then what has been
specific in their work Contract.

Based on the planned hours, we can further configure if the start and end
times are going to be fixed or flexible. We could also capture how breaks are
given to an employee in a day. We also have an option to configure
tolerance time to the Begin and End time.

In a DWS, we also have provision to configure the valuation criteria of a


DWS. Valuation criteria are queried during Time Evaluation using various
Operations. Valuation criteria includes defining minimum and maximum
hours a employee can report on any given day, Compensation time if the
employee exceeds the stipulated hours in their Work Contract. We can also
configure any additional hours that should be credited to the employee’s
accrued time.

Here is how we can configure a Daily Work Schedule.

Let us say we need to configure a Work Schedule which required an


employee to work 8 hours a day for 5 days a week from Monday to
Friday starting 8:30 a. m. to 5:00 p.m. with 30 minutes of break.
These are the steps to configure the DWS.
First off all, we need to know the PSG grouping for all DWS. PSG Grouping will
group all the DWS available to the specified group of PSA’s. We will use PSG
Grouping 01 in our example.

DWS are represented with a 4 alpha-numeric code. We will call our DWS as
WORK (Work Day).

We assign validity duration for each Daily Work Schedule.

Next we assign the planned working hours for the given DWS. In our case,
we set this to 8.0 hours as per the given requirement.

DWS selection rule is where we can determine if there are any variants to
the DWS. We will discuss about the variants in the later part of this post.

Since in our requirements, Saturday and Sunday are Off-days, we will need a
daily work schedule without any planned hours. We can select the option for
“No planned working hrs.” for the DWS for Saturday and Sunday.

Next we configure the planned Start and End time of the DWS. In out case it
will be 08:30 to 17:00

We use the Fixed working hours option if the hours are fixed when an
employee has to work. This is important when we have an environment
where the employees are to be working in a shift. If the company is flexible
around the working times, we can use the Flextime section on DWS as
follows:
The above configuration signifies that the employee can work their
stipulated 8 hours between 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The core time has been
set to 9:00 am to 11:30 am and 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm so the employee has to
be present at work during these hours. Normal Working time is defaulted
when the start and end times are not available.

We can use either the Fixed working hours or Flextime while configuring
the DWS. They are mutually exclusive.
We also incorporate breaks in the DWS if required. Breaks are configured in a
different node on IMG.(We will not discussed configuring Breaks in this
article). The break schedule configured for us is 30MN.

We can also configure the tolerance for each DWS. Tolerance signifies the
rounding up or down of the Clock Events.

In the Valuation section, we define various criteria’s that can be used to


evaluate employee’s time data during Time Evaluation.

Valuation Criteria are accessed as follows in Time Evaluation:

HRS=SMIN Min. working time


HRS=SMAX Max. working time
HRS=SADV Compensation time
HRS=SADD Additional hours
Daily WS Class is a selection criteria feature. Available entries are 0 to 9.

Automatic overtime checkbox is used if we do not require capturing of


Overtime Approvals in IT2007. This field is typically left unchecked in most of
the systems. This field can be accessed in Time Evaluation using
operation VARST with parameter OVPOS.
Ind. for arbitrary use is a free text indicator that can be queried in Time
Evaluation and custom enhancement for field V_T550A-RKEPA.
Reaction to overtime indicator is a setup to display an Error, Warning or No-
notification when the employee has recorded work outside the flextime
duration. We have to use the Flextime section to use the Reaction to
Overtime indicator.

Similarly Reaction to OT in core time to displays an Error, Warning or No-


notification if Overtime is recorded during the core time of a daily work
schedule.

DWS Variants:
We will talk about the DWS Selection rule from the Planned working hours
section.

DWS Selection rule will allow you to determine how a variant of the daily
work schedule should apply on certain days. We can setup rules for daily
work schedule variants with the following parameters:

 The public holiday class of the current day


 The public holiday class of the next day
 Weekday
Let us say that you have a requirement that employee should work 1/2 day
on Christmas Eve if Christmas falls on Monday thru Friday. If Christmas is
Saturday, then Friday is an OFF day. If Christmas is on Sunday, then no other
days off.

Since we have 2 special cases to handle, we will need to create 2 variants for
this requirement. Variants are assigned the same DWS name as if the day
was a normal working day; however we have an alpha-numeric key to
symbolize a variant.

We will create 2 variants for our requirement:

DWS WORK with Variant A: Christmas Eve on a Monday thru Thursday


DWS WORK with Variant B: Christmas Eve on a Friday
The Variants are configured as follows:

Variant A is configured for ½ day of work – 4.0 hours from 8:30 am to 12:30
pm

Variant B is configured for a day-off.

Now we have configured the Variants but how do we apply the variant.
Variants are applied by the DWS selection Rule (Planned working hours)
section. We have used the rule 01 whole configuring the DWS – WORK.
The DWS selection rule is configured as follows:
IMG > Time Management > Work Schedules > Daily Work Schedules
> Define Rules for Variants

Rule 01 has two selection rules represented through the No. field.
Sequence 01:
Holiday Class : XXXXXXXXXX
Holiday Class of Next Day : ...X......
Day : XXXX
Variant : A
This rule is applied if all the conditions are satisfied:

 The Holiday class of current day is Blank, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or


9 (Basically any day)
 The Holiday class of the next day is 3. (We should set
the Holiday class of Christmas as 3)
 The current day being processed is a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
or Thursday
 If all the conditions are satisfied, apply Variant A.
Sequence 02:
Holiday Class : XXXXXXXXXX
Holiday Class of Next Day : ...X......
Day : ....X..
Variant : B
This rule is applied if all the conditions are satisfied:

 The Holiday class of current day is Blank, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or


9 (Basically any day)
 The Holiday class of the next day is 3. (We should set
the Holiday class of Christmas as 3)
 The current day being processed is Friday
 If all the conditions are satisfied, apply Variant B.
Once the DWS are configured, we use the DWS in creating a pattern through
a Periodic Work Schedule.

Periodic Work Schedules are then further used to create Work Schedule
Rules. Work Schedule Rules are generated based on the rules configured in
PWS and DWS. After generation, the Work Schedule Rules are then assigned
the employee’s Master Data in Infotype 0007 – Planned Working Time.

You might also like

pFad - Phonifier reborn

Pfad - The Proxy pFad of © 2024 Garber Painting. All rights reserved.

Note: This service is not intended for secure transactions such as banking, social media, email, or purchasing. Use at your own risk. We assume no liability whatsoever for broken pages.


Alternative Proxies:

Alternative Proxy

pFad Proxy

pFad v3 Proxy

pFad v4 Proxy