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PA – PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION

What is Personnel Area
Description 
Personnel area is used in Personnel Administration. Is unique in each client. Personnel areas include all employees. They represent separate areas which for legal reasons should be split off according to existing bussines entities (self-financing unit). Split for personnel areas enables appropriate grouping of all employees.
Personnel area code can be written in 4 digits, name - max. 30. Configuration under following path (transaction SPRO):

Enterprise Structure -> Definition -> Human Resources Management -> Personnel Areas
Remember to use copy function while creating new Personnel Area, so all needed groupings will be set automatically

Find more about configuration of SAP HR Personnel Administration on dedicated page.
 

Posting dateJan, 2009