Book excerpt: Learn how to optimize the planning and administration of your employees' working times and activities using SAP ERP HCM Time Management. This detailed reference will teach you everything you need for understanding, implementing, and configuring Time Management. Beginning with an overview, the book progresses through the basics of implementation, including what is important during the blueprinting stage, and how to integrate Time Management with other components. From there it moves on to cover the segments of Time Management configuration and customization that an implementer will follow. It also includes design considerations on how to use each infotype and which infotypes are required based on particular decisions. In addition, the book offers insight into how to configure the particular components, and how the items of the configuration fit together. The book concludes with a chapter on more advanced topics, including incentive wages, concurrent employment, web applications, and security and authorizations.