A Buyer can define the start date of the schedule.

The working days and non-working days are marked in a work schedule. This can be flexibly defined by the buyer according to their needs. Work Schedule is a combination of “work schedule shifts” for a cycle of 7 days. The buyer assigns the shift information details such as starting time, ending time, a name of the shift etc in the object. Work Schedule Shiftis a pre-configured object in Assignment Management.

Supplier is an organisation which provides such staff to the Buyer organisation. Persons with certain skills such as welding, electrical repairing and so on are engaged to do the work of the Buyer, provided by the Supplier.īuyeris an organisation, which is looking for people with a specialised skillset, who are required to provide certain services on a temporary or ongoing basis. Resource can be a person or an equipment. In simple terms, the whole gamut of activities starting from registering a new worker, onboarding them, integrating time data from badging systems, applying the different pay-rules, allocating the work times and finally, up to generating a service entry sheet, is handled in this new solution.Īssignment Management uses certain terminologies relevant in this solution and it is imperative to know them to understand the solution.

It works alongside the other modules of SAP Fieldglass. SAP has released “Assignment Management” as a solution module to address the complex situation mentioned above. Assigning workers to the right jobs, assigning the workers to more than one assignment in each time period, keeping control of their work, manually entering and correcting the time for different assignments, calculating cost based on different pre-agreed rates are all complex and time-consuming activities for organisations. However, there are more complex business needs such as workers performing multiple activities resulting in the charging of their costs to different cost objects. In an earlier blog article we discussed SAP Fieldglass as a cloud-based solution which provides an efficient way to handle external workforce by any organisation. Introduction to Fieldglass Assignment Management

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