Does your company suffer from SAP work schedulitis? You know the symptoms. You started off with a reasonable number of work schedules in your SAP system but over time they have multiplied so that there are now thousands, possibly even tens of thousands, in your system.
Initially there was probably a logical system to the naming convention but that too has long gone by the wayside meaning that when allocating a work schedule to infotype 0007 a user will struggle to find an existing pattern that matches the requirements. In some cases this leads to a new work schedule being requested that may already exist!
As work schedules are configuration items a new schedule will take time to create and test so will use up valuable resources from your SAP support team.
This had happened to one of our clients and they asked us if we could help.
EPIUSE UK developed Shift Creation Tool (SCT) in response to our customer’s request.
SCT allows your company to reduce the number of work schedules to a minimum and gives the responsibility of maintaining accurate work schedules to an employees line manager. SCT has validation routines built in so that a line manager cannot create a work schedule that does not equal the employees weekly contractual hours held on IT0007.
The line manager can create a rotating schedule of up to 12 weeks if required.
Below is a screen shot where a manager would create the required shift pattern using start and end times, including any breaks.
Once the pattern has been created and validated in SCT a scheduled job will process the record and create IT2003 Substitutions records from the start date of the record. The number of IT2003 records created will be based on the end date of the SCT record. The program will also re-evaluate any IT2001 Absences or IT2002 Attendances records.
Since being developed for the original client SCT, Glasgow City Council, it has now successfully been deployed in the UK to The AA, Kingfisher Group, Leeds City Council, Hampshire County Council, Menzies Plc, and to Thyssen Krupp Materials North America in the USA.
Interested in the cure for work schedulitis? Would like to find out more?
Please contact me at steve.williams@epiuse.com for further information or to arrange a demonstration.