Getting Started with Time and Labor

This chapter discusses:

Time and Labor overview.
Time and Labor business processes.
Time and Labor integrations.
Time and Labor implementation.

Time and Labor Overview

Time and Labor facilitates the management, planning, reporting, and approving of time, and calendar and schedule creation and usage, from one global web-based application.

With this application, you can:

Schedule time.
Report time.
Administer time.
Distribute time.

Time and Labor Business Processes

Time and Labor provides these business processes:

Report time.
Create schedules.
Organize employee groups.
Approve time.
Track compensatory time off.
Manage security.
Manage reported time.
Track task data.
Forecast payable time.
Manage exceptions.
Track attendance.
Process payable time.
Create rules for processing time.
Distribute and dilute labor costs.

We discuss these business processes in the business process chapters in this PeopleBook.

Time and Labor Integrations

Time and Labor integrates with these PeopleSoft applications:

PeopleSoft Enterprise Time and Labor integrations with PeopleSoft applications

We discuss integration considerations in the implementation chapters in this PeopleBook.

Payroll for North America and Global Payroll

Time and Labor transmits the payable time created by the Time Administration process to a payroll application, such as Payroll for North America or Global Payroll.

Time Collection Devices

Time and Labor is designed for various types of time collection or capture devices.

Human Resources

PeopleSoft Human Resources provides information for Time and Labor.

PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management

Integration between Time and Labor and the PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management application enables data to be captured in a data warehouse, so that performance can be measured in a variety of ways.

PeopleSoft Benefits

PeopleSoft Benefits information, such as benefit and leave plans, is used by Time and Labor.

PeopleSoft Projects and Expenses

The payroll application compensates time reporters for their payable time and, at the end of the pay run, sends labor-related costs back to Time and Labor, where they are distributed across payable time and made available to the PeopleSoft Projects and Expenses applications.

Time and Labor Implementation

PeopleSoft Setup Manager enables you to generate a list of setup tasks for your organization based on the features that you are implementing. The setup tasks include the components that you must set up, listed in the order in which you must enter data into the component tables, and links to the corresponding PeopleBook documentation.

PeopleSoft Enterprise Time and Labor also provides component interfaces to help you load data from your existing system into PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing tables. Use the Excel to Component Interface utility with the component interfaces to populate the tables.

This table lists all of the components that have component interfaces:

Component	Component Interface	Reference
SCH_DEFINITION	SCH_DEFINITION	See Defining Schedules.
SCH_SHIFT	SCH_SHIFT	See Setting Up Shifts.
SCH_WRKDAY	SCH_WRKDAY	See Defining Workdays.
TL_DYNAM_GRP	TL_DYNAM_GRP	See Creating and Updating Dynamic Groups.
TL_TRCPGM_PNLGRP	TL_TRCPGM_PNLGRP	See Defining a TRC Program.
TL_TRC_MAIN_PNLGRP	TL_TRC_MAIN_PNLGRP	See Defining a TRC Program.
ACTIVITY_ID	ACTIVITY_ID	See Creating and Viewing Activity ID Codes.
CUSTOMER	CUSTOMER	See Defining and Viewing Task Values in Time and Labor.
PRODUCT1	PRODUCT1	See Understanding How to Create Task Values in Time and Labor.
PROJECT1	PROJECT1	See Understanding How to Create Task Values in Time and Labor.
TASK	TASK	See Understanding How to Create Task Values in Time and Labor.
TASKGROUP	TASKGROUP	See Defining Taskgroups.
TL_TSKPRF_TEMPLATE	TL_TSKPRF_TEMPLATE	See Creating Task Profiles.
TL_TASK_PROFILE	TL_TASK_PROFILE	See Creating Task Profiles.
TL_WKG_MAIN_PNLGRP	TL_WKG_MAIN_PNLGRP	See Creating Work Schedules, and Schedule Definitions.
TL_RULE_ELEM1_PNLG	TL_RULE_ELEM1_PNLG	See Defining Rule Elements.
TL_RULE_ELEM2_PNLG	TL_RULE_ELEM2_PNLG	See Defining Rule Elements.
TL_RULE_ELEM3_PNLG	TL_RULE_ELEM3_PNLG	See Defining Rule Elements.
TL_RULE_ELEM4_PNLG	TL_RULE_ELEM4_PNLG	See Defining Rule Elements.
TL_RULE_ELEM5_PNLG	TL_RULE_ELEM5_PNLG	See Defining Rule Elements.
TL_USER_FLD1_PNLG	TL_USER_FLD1_PNLG	See Creating and Viewing User Fields.
TL_USER_FLD2_PNLG	TL_USER_FLD2_PNLG	See Creating and Viewing User Fields.
TL_USER_FLD3_PNLG	TL_USER_FLD3_PNLG	See Creating and Viewing User Fields.
TL_USER_FLD4_PNLG	TL_USER_FLD4_PNLG	See Creating and Viewing User Fields.
TL_USER_FLD5_PNLG	TL_USER_FLD5_PNLG	See Creating and Viewing User Fields.
TL_TCDGRP_PNLGRP	TL_TCDGRP_PNLGRP	See Defining TCD Setup Data in Time and Labor.
TL_TCD_PNLGRP	TL_TCD_PNLGRP	See Setting Up TCD Groups.

Other Sources of Information

In the planning phase of your implementation, take advantage of all PeopleSoft sources of information, including the installation guides, data models, business process maps, and troubleshooting guidelines. A complete list of these resources appears in the preface in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS 8.9 Application Fundamentals PeopleBook, with information about where to find the most current version of each.