SAP ABAP IMG Activity OHBEN001 (Define Benefit Area)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_HRRXX (Software Component) Sub component SAP_HRRXX of SAP_HR
   ⤷ PA-BN (Application Component) Benefits
     ⤷ PBEC (Package) Benefits - Customizing
IMG Activity
ID OHBEN001 Define Benefit Area  
Transaction Code S_AHR_61002302   IMG-Aktivität: OHBEN001 
Created on 19981221    
Customizing Attributes BEN_00_BE_1_1_A0000   Benefits - mandatory - critical - all countries 
Customizing Activity BEN_00_T5UB3   View V_T5UB3 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name OHBEN001    

In this step, you define benefit areas.

Benefit areas allow you to have separate administration of different benefit plan pools. This division is primarily for administrational purposes and would not normally be used for eligibility.

As you create your benefit areas, consider the following factors:

  • A benefit area can be administered in one currency at a time only. So for each currency you have, you must define a minimum of one benefit area.
  • If benefit plans are to be administered by different benefits offices in your organization, you can use different benefits areas to make this distinction.
  • If your subsidiaries are in the same country yet have vastly different benefit plan pools, you can create a benefit area for each subsidiary.

Note: Do not create more benefit areas than you strictly need because each benefit area is set up separately, and you need to set up a plan in each benefit area in which it is used.

You must also ensure that authorizations are maintained for your benefit areas. The benefits module allows you to control user access to benefit areas. For information on how to set up the authorization P_BEN_ALL see Maintain Authorizations in the Personnel Administration IMG.

Example 1

An organization provides a different set of benefits to employees in different regions.

Benefit area    Country grouping

01 Calif/Mary/Pens    10 USA

02 DC/NewEngland/Mass    10 USA

Example 2

An international organization with two subsidiaries aquires a third. The employees in the subsidiary still use the benefits from their previous company.

Benefit area    Country grouping

01 General Co.    10 USA

02 Subsidiary 1    10 USA

03 Subsidiary 2    08 Great Britain

Recommendation

The association of employees to a benefit area is done using the feature BAREA. This is accessed from the Benefit Area view using the feature function.

Activities

  1. Define the different benefit areas needed within your organization.
  2. Choose "New entries".
  3. Enter a two-character identifier for each benefit area.
  4. Enter the description and country identifier for each of your benefit areas.
  5. Save your entries.
  6. Choose "Feature".

The feature maintenance screen appears, and you can set up the feature decision tree for the benefit areas you have just defined.

Further notes

To copy and delete complete benefit area definitions, see
Copy benefit area
Delete benefit area

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 203   Establish Master Data 
Mandatory / Optional 1   Mandatory activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 1   Critical 
Country-Dependency I   Valid for countries specified 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG OHBEN001 0 HLA0006874 Benefits 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
V_T5UB3 V - View SM30  
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20030923 
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