Gathering in real time employee time spent on WO

Hi,
Currently, we our Manufacturing folks fill out a daily timecard so their time can be charge to work orders. This means we have to wait until the next day to complete work orders. Does anyone have a solution to gather an employee's time in real time and charge it to the work order so the work order can be closed quickly after the work is completed?
We are on 11.5.10.
Catherine

Hi Catherie,
Oracle has Oracle Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that can address your requirement. With clock in/clock out feature, the actual time can be captured and charged to the work order in real time. The work order can be closed right after the work is completed.
Oracle MES can do much more than clock in/clock out. Here is the link to the Oracle MES datasheet. http://www.oracle.com/applications/manufacturing/manufacturing-execution-system-data-sheet.pdf
However, Oracle MES works with R12. If you plan to upgrade to R12, Oracle MES should be a perfect solution for you without complex and costly integrations with third party solutions.
Hope this help.
Regards,
Nitikorn

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    14.     Who will assign symbolic accounts and who will define?
    15.     Where will the symbolic accounts related to FI? G/L Accounts.
    16.     What is the Integration between PA & Recruitment? What about PRELI.
    1.     What is an Organization structure contains.
    Enterprise structure
    Personal Structure
    Org. Assignment
    2.     What is the Enterprise structure consists of?
    3.     What is the personnel structure consists of?
    4.     What is the Org Assignment structure consists of?
    5.     What is a reporting structure?
    6.     What is a relationship and how many types are there?
    7.     Can one person will be assigned to different positions or one single position can be assigned to different persons.
    8.     How do you integrate between OM and PA?
    9.     Where will you assign if the position would be defaulted with Emp Grp and Sub grp?
    10.     What is the highest hierarchy in the Structural Graphics?
    11.     What are the plan versions used for?
    12.     Where will you do the Cost center assignment?
    13.     Position inherits the task of which object
    14.     What is the relationship between a job and position in OM.
    15.     How do you define Task?
    16.     What do you mean by Work Center?
    12 How to know the user authorizations
    T.code SUIM can help u to knw the authorizations of the users.
    13 Position inherits the task of which object
    13. Position inherits the task of the Job for which the position is created.
    14 How do you transfer data from PA to PD?
    14. RHINTE00 is the report used to transfer data from PA to PD.
    *PLOGI QUALI is the switch it will integrate the PA and PD
    15 RHINT30 Used for what?
    15. RHINTE30 is used to update IT0001 in PA (batch input) of the specified Personnel numbers. The Org. Asgmnt created for these numbers in PD is transferred to IT0001.
    16 Feature PACTV performs
    16. PACTV this feature tells about an applicant what is his/her current status wheather hiring, rejected. *Parameter settings for applicant activity types
    17 What is the use of Feature NUMKER?
    17. Feature NUMKR is to assign Personnel number range to a Company code or Personnel area. T.code PA04 is for tht feature. It holds the interval range, the interval status (latest number assigned). *It is used for the internal number assignmebt
    18 What is the use of control record
    18. Payroll Control record a) defines payroll past for retroactive accounting recognition, b) locks the master data & time data during the payroll process (payroll past & present), c) defines earliest possible retroactive date, d) no. of times the payroll has been run for tht payroll area.
    19 Are you able to perform more than one action in the same day?
    19. Yes u can perform two actions on the same day except the Hiring action and the Separation action.
    Yes but it should not affect the employment status
    20 Whether System will allow the Hire and Terminate actions on the same day?
    21 While performing the hire action, Customer don't want to go further with out entering
    System will not accept the hire and terminate on the same day
    22 the data into the Infotype i.e few Infotype data's are mandatory .how to proceed?
    23 What is the functionality of time constraints?
    23. Time constraints are assigned to the Infotypes in order to avoid collision between two Infotype records.
    TC 0 - Max. of one It record of same type, for same object & for same period of time
    TC 1 - IT records available at all times. No time gaps allowed. No overlapping records
    TC 2 - Only one record at any one time. Time gaps may exist.
    TC 3 - Multiple records may exist at one time.
    Time Constraints will reduce the duplication of data
    example if the time constraint is one it is mandatory
    tcc 2 unique and mandatory
    tcc3 gaps and allowed
    24 Customer doesn't want to give display authorization for few fields in the infotypes. How to resolve this issue.
    Some fields in an Infotype screen can be Hidden by Screen Modification through the table T588M
    25 To implement SAP Payroll what are the mandatory modules for HR
    25. The mandatory modules are PA & Time.
    25. OM, PA, Recruitment, & Time Management
    26 What is the difference between Master data and transactional data.
    26. Master Data is the data that remains unchanged for a long period of time.
    Ex. Employees Personal details etc.
    Transactional data is the data pertaining to day to day transactions with keeps changing
    Ex. Time data,
    27 Employee able to hold two personnel numbers
    27.Employee can hold two personnel nos.Such a case arises in CONCURRENT EMPLOYMENT.
    Yes one number will be reference personnel number
    28 How to access HRP1000 table
    28. HRP1000 can be accessed through Transaction Code :SE16.
    29 What are the different types of holidays?
    29. Holidays can be classified into Mainly Fixed, & Movable
    30 How to find a bug in a report
    31 What is personnel calendar?
    31. Personnel Calender is in which it tells information of employee's about his Location, Position, department, Shift, absence & attendence, Payroll.
    32 What are the types of break schedules?
    32. Break Schedules are Paid & Unpaid, & Dynamic Breaks.
    fixed breaks
    variable break
    etc
    33 Customer required a variant for monthly WS generation with Thursday half day
    33. Regarding Halfday on thrusday You need to create a variant and assign it to your Selection rule.
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    34. Question I could not understand you mean weekly Off on Fridays & Saturdays then you need to mention it in your Period Work Schedule.
    35 Define day types
    35. Day Types is an indicator that a certain calender day is payment relavent that is paid or not.
    36 To generate a work schedule what are the parameters required.
    36. Holidays, Holiday Calender, Factory Calender, PS Grouping, Break Schedules, Daily Work Schedules, Period Work Schedules, & Work Schedule Rule & SCHKZ feature
    37 What is the use of a counting rule?
    37. Counting Rule is used to determine the payroll days & Hrs for the Attendence & Absence & to count the exact time.
    they count the payroll days and hours
    38 Define base & accrual entitlements?
    39 How to generate Absence Quotas?
    40 What is the relationship between a job and position ii OM
    40. Relation between a Job & a position is that a Position automatically inherits the characteristics & task assigned to that job
    41 What are the Characteristics of a wage type?
    42 What is the advantage of a schema?
    43 What is the use of QUOMO44 What is the procedure to develop a new report?
    45 What is the use of structural authorizations?
    46 Differentiate between cluster table and internal table
    47 Module pool programming
    48 How to transport a variant for a report to production System
    49 What are the activities needs to be completed before transferring the applicantdata to Personnel administration
    49. Following are the activities that are need to be performed before transferring the applicant data to PA
    --> Initial Entry of Basic Data
    --> Prepare for Hiring
    50 What do you know about the R/3 architecture?
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    Personnel Sub Area: Sub-division of Personnel Areas.Identified with a Four character code.
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    52.Example for Employee Subgroup
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    >Hourly Paid Employees
    >Trainee
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    54. Off cycle is performed when you give any advance to your employee like Bonus,
    55 What is the significance of DME
    56 How to create a work schedule for a part time employee
    56. Whether the employee is Part timer or Full Timer the same way components will taken into consideration for creation of Work Schedule.
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    59 Define processing class, evaluation class & Cumulation classes
    60 How you calculate the overtime
    61 how to calculate transport allowance for employees who has worked as per workschedule & who took few leaves ( employer don't want to pay transport allowancewhere the employee was absent)
    62 Difference between positive and negative time
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    63 Mention the processing types in Time evaluation
    64 Give brief information about time wage types & balance reflects into cluster tables
    65 Where you will find error messages
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    2 At what level the regulation of employees are defined in SAP?
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    5  What is the use of a feature? A feature can be used to determine the default values & the screen sequence when HR Master Data is maintained in the Infotypes.
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    13  Position inherits the task of which object
    14 How do you transfer data from PA to PD?
    15 RHINT30 Used for what?
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    17  What is the use of Feature NUMKER?
    18 What is the use of control record
    19 Are you able to perform more than one action in the same day?
    20 Whether System will allow the Hire and Terminate actions on the same day?
    21  While performing the hire action, Customer don't want to go further with out entering
    22 the data into the Infotype i.e  few Infotype data's are mandatory .how to proceed?
    23  What is the functionality of time constraints?
    24 Customer doesn't want to give display authorization for few fields in the infotypes.
    How to resolve this issue.
    25  To implement SAP Payroll what are the mandatory modules for HR
    26 What is the difference between Master data and transactional data.
    27  Employee able to hold two personnel numbers?
    28  How to access HRP1000 table
    29 What are the different types of holidays?
    30  How to find a bug in a report
    31 What is personnel calendar?
    32 What are the types of break schedules?
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    34  Holiday and Friday & Saturday's are weekly off.
    35  Define day types
    36 To generate a work schedule what are the parameters required.
    37 What is the use of a counting rule?
    38 Define base & accrual entitlements?
    39  How to generate Absence Quotas?
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    41 What are the Characteristics of a wage type?
    42 What is the advantage of a schema?
    43  What is the use of QUOMO
    44  What is the procedure to develop a new report?
    45 What is the use of structural authorizations?
    46  Differentiate between cluster table and internal table
    47  Module pool programming
    48 How to transport a variant for a report to production System
    49  What are the activities needs to be completed before transferring the applicant
    data to  Personnel administration
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    53  what is retroactive accounting
    54 When you perform a Off-cycle payroll
    55  What is the significance of DME
    56 How to create a work schedule for a part time employee
    57 How to transfer employee salary from HR to FI
    58 If you want to rerun the payroll for a specific employee what is the procedure
    59  Define processing class, evaluation class & Cumulation classes
    60 How you calculate the overtime
    61  how to calculate transport allowance for employees who has worked as per work
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    where the employee was absent)
    62  Difference between positive and negative time
    63 Mention the processing types in Time evaluation
    64 Give brief information about time wage types & balance reflects into cluster tables
    65 Where you will find error messages
    66  what are the infotypes  data involved in Time evaluation
    67 Time events & Time pairs are stored in which tables
    68  How to valuate the time wage types
    69  Derive the wage type with 50% & 25%
    70  How to change the employee basic pay from wage type MM20 to 5231
    71  What is the use of counting classes?
    72  What is the use of Day Rules?
    73 W hat are the partial period factors
    74  In which tables Payroll constant will be stored & through which T-Code you are
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    75  Write the formula for partial period factor for /802
    76 What is the use of factoring in Payroll.
    77  Are you able to run a payroll for ex-employee?
    78 What do you know about Averages in payroll?
    79 Through which T-Code you are able to create a remuneration statement
    80  Explain bank transfers & Check processing
    81  What are the time recording methods.
    82  How to implement a decentralized scenario into an organization
    83  How to get the master data from SAP to SAP & Non-sap
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    85  What is the key feature for IT0003 which is maintained by system automatically?
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    87 What are the key aspects defined for dynamic actions
    88 Employee subgroups are used in Time to control what
    89 What is the purpose of assigning a Daily Work Schedule class
    90  How is a day type determined in a day type rule.
    91 What is the use of a Quota multiplier in a Counting rule.
    92  What are the methods by which Quota can be accrued.
    93 When do you use a reduction rule for an absence quota.
    94 Elements of enterprise structure are
    95  What type of information payroll accounting area provides the payroll driver
    96   Infotypes are logical groups of
    97 Work Schedule is generated from
    98 Which infotypes act as a payroll administration for the individual employee
    99 What are the applicant activities?
    100  Explain ASAP methodology
    101 What are the logical databases belongs to HR module.
    102 What are the modules for wage type characteristics (indirect valuation)
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    1. Explain the structure of the client/server framework.
    2. Project Implementation Tools 1. What is the IMG?
    2. What is a project IMG?
    3. Basics of Human Resources 1. What are the most important processes supported in Human Resources (HR)?
    2. What are the most important structures in HR?
    3. What is meant by Employee Self-Service?
    4. What ways are there to select an Infotype?
    5. How do you hire a new employee?
    6. Which steps make up the payroll process?
    7. Why is there a cross-application time sheet? What are the possible target components?
    8. What is the purpose of time evaluation?
    9. Which reporting tools do you know of?
    10. How is the recruitment component integrated with the other HR components?
    11. What is an applicant action?
    12. What is the difference between qualifications and requirements?
    13. What is the difference between career planning and succession planning? What is a development plan?
    14. Describe the day-to-day activities in Training and Event Management.
    15. What is the appraisal system component used for?
    16. What are the main functions of Compensation Management?
    17. What personnel cost planning methods are there in SAP HR?
    18. Which Infotypes do you need to implement Travel Management?
    4. Organizational Management
    1. What are plan versions used for?
    2. What are the basic object types?
    3. What is the difference between a job and a position?
    4. What is the difference between an organizational unit and a work center?
    5. Where can you maintain relationships between objects?
    6. What are the main areas of the Organization and Staffing user interfaces?
    7. What is Expert Mode used for?
    8. Can you create cost centers in Expert Mode?
    9. Can you assign people to jobs in Expert Mode?
    10. Can you use the organizational structure to create a matrix organization?
    11. In general structure maintenance, is it possible to represent the legal entity of organizational units?
    12. What is the Object Infotype (1000) used for?
    13. What is the Relationships Infotype (1001) used for?
    14. Which status can Infotypes in the Organizational Management component have?
    15. What is an evaluation path?
    16. What is Managers Desktop used for?
    17. Is it possible to set up new evaluation paths in Customizing?
    18. Which situations require new evaluation paths?
    19. How do you set up integration between Personnel Administration and Organizational Management?
    5. Master Data 1. Which elements make up the enterprise structure?
    2. Which elements make up the personnel structure?
    3. Which elements make up the organizational structure?
    4. Which criteria play a role in establishing these structures?
    5. Which control features are controlled using the personnel subarea?
    6. Which control features are controlled using the employee subgroup?
    7. What is a payroll area?
    8. What is an Infotype?
    9. Which criteria determine payroll areas?
    10. What is the organizational key used for?
    11. In which Infotype are administrators defined?
    12. Why are administrators defined?
    13. What can features be used for?
    14. What is the connection between Planned Working Time (Infotype 7) and Basic Pay (Infotype 8)?
    15. Which ways are there to define default values for the pay scale area and pay scale type?
    16. What is the employee subgroup grouping for collective agreement provisions used for?
    17. Where are pay scale groups and pay scale levels defined?
    18. How are wage types created in the SAP R/3 system?
    19. Can all wage types be entered into all Infotypes?
    20. What does the input permissibility of a wage type depend upon?
    21. What is the personnel subarea grouping for primary wage types used for?
    22. What is the employee subgroup grouping for primary wage types used for?
    23. What ways are there to valuate wage types? Where are wage type valuations defined?
    24. How can you evaluate wage types indirectly?
    25. How can you define default wage types for the Basic Pay Infotype?
    26. What ways are there to perform pay scale reassignments?
    27. What ways are there to perform standard pay increases?
    28. What is the difference between the simple and extended pay increases?
    29. Can several personnel actions be performed on the same day?
    30. What is the Additional Actions Infotype used for?
    31. If an employee leaves the enterprise, are all Infotypes delimited?
    32. Which control options do you have for Customizing when configuring Infotypes?
    33. Can a screen in HR data consist of several Infotypes?
    34. Which ways are there to modify screens in Customizing?
    35. What is an Infotype menu and what is its purpose?
    36. What is an info group? What is a personnel action?
    37. How can a personnel action change the status feature of an employee in Infotype 0000?
    38. How are personnel actions and dynamic actions linked?
    6. Authorizations 1. What is a role and what is it made up of?
    2. How are the authorizations in a role maintained?
    3. Are authorization objects or profiles assigned to users?
    4. Which authorization object can you use to control an employee?s access to his or her own personal data?
    5. What are the main advantages of the Profile Generator?
    6. Can roles and their authorization profiles be assigned to a user for a limited time period?
    7. How do you create structural profiles?
    7. Payroll 1. How does the system know when to trigger retroactive accounting for a particular employee?
    2. How is the earliest retroactive accounting date determined for an employee?
    3. What is the payroll control record used for?
    4. Is the exact date of the payroll period for an employee determined by the payroll area or the payroll control record?
    5. What activities are possible when the payroll control record is set to ?Released for Payroll??
    6. Is it possible to branch directly from the payroll log to master data and time data maintenance?
    7. What is Matchcode W used for?
    8. What effect does grouping employee subgroups have on personnel calculation rules?
    9. Can you evaluate payroll results using SAP Query/Ad Hoc Query?
    10. What steps are required to post payroll results to Accounting?
    11. Can a posting run be deleted?
    12. Where do you specify whether an employee is paid in cash or whether the money is transferred to a bank account?
    8. Time Data 1. What are the basic concepts for recording time data?
    2. What steps are required to set up work schedules?
    3. Can you define your own public holidays?
    4. How do you define which public holiday calendar is valid for an employee?
    5. Which characteristics does a public holiday class blank have?
    6. Is there an employee subgroup grouping for daily work schedules?
    7. What is a variant of a daily work schedule?
    8. Is there an employee subgroup grouping for time quotas?
    9. What ways are there to define breaks within a break schedule?
    10. Which characteristics does a daily work schedule with daily work schedule class 1 have?
    11. Which elements make up a period work schedule?
    12. Which characteristic does a day with day type 1 have?
    13. Which ways are there of representing part-time work in the SAP R/3 system?
    14. Which ways are there of representing substitutions in the SAP R/3 system?
    15. What is the difference between absences (Infotype 2001) and attendances (Infotype 2002)?
    16. What is an absence quota? Give examples.
    17. What is the difference between a validity interval and a deduction interval for time quotas?
    18. You need to deduct an absence from a quota. Which Customizing settings are required?
    19. Should a quota be assigned directly to an absence?
    20. What is the remuneration Infotype used for?
    21. What are counting rules used for?
    22. Can you set up default values to create absence quotas?
    23. Can you generate absence quotas?
    24. What is the schema TQTA used for?
    25. What ways are there of entering information for Controlling when recording time data in the Time Management Infotypes?
    9. Reporting in Human Resources Management
    1. Which reporting tools are available in Human Resources Management?
    2. Is the Business Information Warehouse part of the SAP R/3 system?
    3. What is HIS?
    4. Where do you find standard reports in HR?
    5. Can you also evaluate cross-client data with standard reports?
    6. Can customer-specific reports be incorporated in the Managers Desktop?
    7. What is a logical database used for?
    8. Which logical databases exist in HR?
    9. What is a user group, what is an infoset and how are the two related?
    10. What is a field group? Give examples from HR.
    11. What are selection and output fields?
    12. What can an Ad Hoc Query be used for?
    13. What are the steps for configuring an SAP Query?
    14. What are payroll Infotypes used for?
    Reward if helpful..
    Cheers
    JS

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    Figure 7: Functional development phase
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    Figure 8: Final preparation phase
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    HTH
    Regards,
    Dhruv Shah

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