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PA – PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION

What is Personnel Subarea
Description 
Personnel subareas represent the whole organization in aspects of personnel management, time management and payroll. Personnel subareas could represent company's locations.
Personnel subarea defines following indicators:
- Default values for pay scale area and pay scale type
- Assignment of personnel subarea to a public holiday calendar
- Grouping of personnel subareas for vacation, work schedule, attendance and absence types, substitution and availability types, attendance and absence counting, time recording, time quota and premiums
- Personnel subarea grouping for permissibility of primary wage types
- Grouping of personnel subareas for appraisals
Personnel subarea code can be written in 4 digits, name - max. 15

Configuration under following path (transaction SPRO):
Enterprise Structure -> Definition -> Human Resources Management -> Personnel Subareas
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