vendor master

[Former Member]

Dear all,

in an reeegineering project,we found employee names are maintained in vendor master under Acoount group employees.

is this a correct way to do in SAP?as employees are account payable so they are maintained in vendor master.

if not, please advice were we can maintain the employees name.

regards

sandeep

[Former Member]

Hello Sandeep,

Yes there are many ways of creating records of the employees. For example, I can create a HR Master data for the employees (TA PA30 or PA20). Here you maintain the employee information for HR related data. But you can use the same personnel number for further use in the external number range.

I hope this helps.

Ankur

[Former Member]

thanks ankur,

so it is practice in all implementations to maintain record of all there employees in vendor master.

there is no other way to maintain employees master data.

so employees are treated as vednor.

we have this arguement how com SAP doesnot provide a different way of doing- something need convincing.

thanks again

regards

[Former Member]

If you use the Personnel Administration (PA-PA), you can store employees’ names and passport data in their human resources (HR) master in the personal data (infotype 0002)& passport number in the infotype 0290..

To be able to post to these employees from Financial Accounting(FI) transactions, you must use vendor master records. You can use either of the following two options:

You can create one vendor master record for each employee, and enter each employee’s personnel number in its vendor master record.

Then, when you make a cash disbursement to an employee, you can enter the employee’s vendor account number.

You can create a single vendor master record for all employees, and leave the personnel number field in the master record blank.

Then, when you make a cash disbursement to an employee, you can enter the vendor account number and the employee’s personnel number.

In both cases, the system automatically prints the employee’s name and passport number on the cash voucher.

[Former Member]

Hello Sandeep,

Yes this is fine. Any entity for which some account payable is there comes under Vendor master. It does not matter whether you are availing a service or procuring some material though it. It has to be mapped to correct Account goups.

Ankur