How to Define Personnel Subareas

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This SAP article will guide you all about “How to Define personnel Subareas in SAP” step by step with screenshot.

A personnel subarea is a SAP HR Personnel Administration specific unit and is a subdivision the of the personnel area. At this level, the organizational control of pay scale, wage type structures, work schedule and planning take place. The individual personnel subareas are identified by a four-digit alpha-numeric identification code.

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The South African specific control features are also stored at this level. The main organizational functions of the personnel subarea are as follows:

Specifying the groupings for SAP HR Time Management, which allows, for example, work schedules, substitution, absence, and leave types to be set up on a personnel subarea specific basis.

The personnel subarea can serve as a selection criterion for reporting.

With personnel subareas, you can generate default values for pay scale types and areas for an employee’s basic pay.

You can specify holiday calendars based on personnel subareas.

With personnel subareas, you can define specific wage types per personnel areas.

Personnel subareas can be represented as legal entity for accounting purposes.

In general, the personnel subarea refers to an area in a workplace, in which a group of people work under similar conditions of employment. For example, within head office, most people will work a standard eight-hour day five days week. Therefore, the entire head office is classified under one personnel subarea. However, on a factory site, there will be people with different employment conditions. For example, the clerical staff works five days a week, while production workers work rotating shifts on a 40 hour/week schedule. In such an instance, different personnel subareas are needed.