1. 1. What is Positive & Negative Time Recording ?
Explain about the positive & negative time recording ( with clock
times & without clock times ).
In which situations with clock times and without clock times are used in
negative time management.
Time Management can be bifurcated types:
1. Positive Time (+ve Time) ? Positive time is plays the total role of
workflow. All the processes related to time are automatically gets
executed in the background. E.g., in our case it is done only partially to
validate the attendance as per punches and other documents with shift
timing and generate absence automatically in case of any discrepancy.
2. Negative Time (-ve Time) ? Where the all time related activities like
validation of the attendance, posting of absence for wage deduction etc
are done manually. It has less level of integration among the different
components of time management.
Negative Time Recording:
1. Records time deviations to Planned Working Time
2. Valid deviations include: Absences, Special Absences, On Call Duty,
Overtime, Substitutions, Time off in lieu
3. Deviations are manually entered according to type & duration.
Positive Time Recording:
1. Records the attendance time of the employee
2. Records the deviation times of the employee
3. Valid attendances include: Training, Business Trips, Seminars,
Overtime.
4. Attendances & deviations can be entered either:
- Front end system
- Manually.

2. Positive Time Management we have two types of recordings:
1. With Clock times - Complete time recording is captured
2. Without Clock times - Only Number of hours worked is captured
Negative time Management:
1. No clock times and assumed employee is working unless and until his
or her absences are entered.
How is the process of getting data from time recording system to SAP
how can we connect time recording system to SAP? How do we
interface for positive time management?
To simplify:
We can consider two independent systems:
1. SAP System which contains Planned Working time
2. Time recorder system which contains the actual timings
Now as Time recorder system will contain all Clock in & Clock outs, the
data needs to be uploaded to SAP system either as Scheduled job at back
end or online in critical cases.
Based on our Time pair and other IMG settings in SAP System and
comparison of IT2011 with IT2000, it generates values of OT,Absences
etc etc.