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1 CREATION OF TIME REPORT......................................................................................... 3
1.1 Overview .......................................................................................................... 3
1.2 Purpose ............................................................................................................ 3
1.3 Frequency ........................................................................................................ 3
1.4 Performed By ................................................................................................... 3
1. Tools Used ....................................................................................................... 3
2 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 4
3 DETAILED PROCEDURE................................................................................................ 5
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NTT DATA’s revenue, profitability, policy time tracking, and k e y performance
indicators are driven by the hours entered into PeopleSoft by our employees.
Those hours must be accounted for and approved in a timely, ethical, and
accurate manner in order to effectively satisfy our obligations to our
shareholders, to our clients, and to ourselves.
• For all NTT DATA employees who do not work with clients on Saturdays,
time entry should be completed by Friday afternoon, no later than 5PM
EST.
• For those assigned to clients with Saturday work, time entry must be
completed by Saturday afternoon no later than 5PM EST.
This procedure is used to create time report in People soft & Common Error
while creating time report.
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User Defaults
The user defaults page is new to 9.1. It allows for certain criteria to be pre
populated for either an Expense Report or a Time Report, or both.
The page can be accessed in one of two ways:
• Directly from the link in a Time or Expense Report
• Main Menu Employee Self-Service Travel and Expenses
Review/Edit Profile. The second way to access is illustrated below:
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1. By default all the User Defaults are set to open a Blank Report
NOTE: Use the Drop downs to set your personal preference.
• Copy an Existing Report – Allows users to select an existing time
report to copy from as a base.
• Open a Blank Report – Start a time report from scratch. Users can enable some project defaults if desired.
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2. Open a Blank Report, then you can set some project defaults here.
NOTE: If you need to change these parameters for new projects you will
need to reset your defaults.
3. Country and State: Required. Enter the Country and State in which you
physically worked. (Note: These are both REQUIRED fields even though
there is no asterisk)
4. Locality: We are not using Locality – leave this field empty.
5. Billing Action: This will default based on your system profile. If you are a
billable employee then your Billing Action will default to “Billable”. If you
are an SG&A person either at Corporate or part of a branch then your
Billing Action will default to “Internal”.
Note: If you work at multiple physical locations during a given week – you
can change these defaults later when you enter the details for your week’s
activities.
6. Enabled check box must be clicked.
7. Enter the PC Unit, Project, Activity, Source type, Category.
Note: If you work on different projects – you can change these defaults
later when you enter the details.
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Time Report Creation and Submission
1. Go to my NTT DATA Portal - http://portal.NTT DATA.com
2. Click on Employee Self-Service
3. Click on Travel and Expenses Center
4. Click on Time Report
5. On the Time report page - Click on Create, Modify, Print, View or Delete time
reports.
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6. Change the Period End Date to the Saturday of the week for which you
are entering the Time Report (e.g. 01/08/2011 is the Saturday for that
week). Click the button.
Note: The system will only allow you to enter a single report for a given
week – so you need to put all your hours for a week on a single report.
Note: You can enter a Time Report for any period either in the past or the
future. This will enable you to put in your Time Report in advance (e.g.
prior to going on vacation).
7. Finding an existing Time Report.
To find an existing time report previously saved as a draft or one that was
denied – stay on the “Find an Existing Value” tab.
Clicking on the button - all of your draft time reports will be
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Note: If you only have one time report in draft mode at the time – the
system will take you directly into that time report.
8. You can default whether you want to start time report from scratch or copy
from existing time report.
9. Country and State: Required. Enter the Country and State in which you
physically worked. (Note: These are both REQUIRED fields even though
there is no asterisk)
10. Locality: We are not using Locality – leave this field empty.
11. Billing Action: This will default based on your system profile. If you are a
billable employee then your Billing Action will default to “Billable”. If you
are an SG&A person either at Corporate or part of a branch then your
Billing Action will default to “Internal”.
12. Click continues to go to time report summary page.
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13. COPY from existing time report:
NOTE: If you have selected the Copy an Existing Report in the User Defaults
then instead of the blank time report, a list of reports from which to copy will
appear.
14. Click select to choose to report.
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15. On the Time Report Summary page - enter your Time Report Details
You will need to enter a detail line for each of the following scenarios that
you work on during a given week:
• For regular time worked on a project/activity
• For any hours in excess of your Standard hours worked on a
project/activity (note: you will have one line for each project/activity
combination you work on).
• For any Policy Time: Education, Holiday, Leave of Absence (LOA)-
Paid, Sickness, Vacation (note: these will need to be entered on
separate detail lines.
• For any Direct Time: Unassigned (e.g. bench), Professional
Development (e.g. Performance Appraisals), Continuance, LOA-
Unpaid.
For each detail line Enter or Select using the lookup feature) the following
information in the following orders:
• PC BU (Projects Costing Business Unit)
• Project ID
• Activity ID
• Billing Action
• Hours for that Project/Activity in the appropriate daily boxes.
Click on the button to add an additional row.
Click “Update Totals” button to update the Totals.
16. User Default: The User default hyperlink allows for change to default
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17. The “Reset to user default” push button defaults the distribution to the
saved data from the user default page.
Details Section:
18. To view and update the details of a line of time - click on the Details link
at the beginning of a line of time.
The Project Time Details page contains 3 tabs.
Projects ChartFields – Contains Project information and special codes
GL ChartFields – Contains Operating and Reporting Units, Affiliate,
Product and Function
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Location – Contains Country, State and Billing Action
A) Projects Chart Fields Tab
• PC Bus Unit – Projects Business Unit for this line of time
• Project – Project ID for the Project you selected for this line of time
• Activity – Activity ID for the Activity you selected for this line of time
• Res Type – Resource Type for this line of time. This is the transaction code for
Time. It will always be “LABOR” for a Time Report.
• Category – The Category code identifies the type of employee you are and will
be defaulted based on your employee type.
Common Categories
• NRSHR: Nearshore Canadian Employees
• OFSHR : Offshore Employees
• ONSHR: Onshore Employees.
• ONSUB : Onshore Subcontractor, GL001
• OFSUB : Offshore SUBCONTRACTOR- GL018,GL034
• SG&A : Sales, General and Administrative
• SG&AB: SG&A transfer to Billing
• STERM: Short Term Employees
• Sub Category field is a special code for Additional hours only.
You will need to enter or select the appropriate Subcategory code for any line of time
that represents additional hours (e.g. hours above your Standard Hours “>40 for full
time employees”)
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Definition: Subcategory Codes
NB=”Non-Billable” - BL=”Billable”
Important! - Contact your administrator as to which code to use.
What do the codes mean?
o BL0 = Billed to the client but not paid to the employee
o BL1 = Billed to the client and paid to employee at 1.0 times your rate
o BL1.5 = Billed to the client and paid to employee at 1.5 times your rate
o BL2 = Billed to the client and paid to employee at 2 times your rate
o BLX = Billed to the client and paid to employee at X times your rate
o NB0 = Not billed to the client and not paid to the employee
o NB1 = Not billed to the client but paid to employee at 1.0 times your rate
o NB1.5 = Not billed to the client and paid to employee at 1.5 times your rate
o NB2 = Not billed to the client and paid to employee at 2 times your rate
o NBX = Not billed to the client and paid to employee at X times your rate
o BR subcat is a type of special codes which is mostly used by
rotational employees to differentiate their hours.
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B) GL Chart Fields Tab
Reporting Unit is the unit on whose payroll a consultant is employed.
Both the Operating Unit and the Reporting Unit will default based on your employee profile. Do not change these unless instructed to do so by your administrator.
The Function code (refer Appendix-B for details) field will default based on your
employee profile. Do not change this unless instructed to do so by your administrator.
The Product and Affiliate fields should be blank.
• 1000 : Billable Salaried – OFSHR, ONSHR
• 1150 : Billable Management – Project Managers, Delivery Heads
• 1200 : Dataskill
• 1300 : Subcontractors
• 7XXX : SG&A
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D) Location Tab (refer Appendix-C for details)
Country and State – Enter the State and Country where the work was physically done.
Locality – Leave blank – NTT DATA is not utilizing this field.
Importance of mentioning location in timesheet: NTT DATA and their employees
share a responsibility and a liability for reporting state tax accurately. In order to
keep us in compliance, the Country and State fields should reflect where you
are physically performing your work.
Billing Action
Billable: This term is used in billing action field when the time is billable to the client.
Non-billable: This is used when the time is non billable to the client.
Internal: SG&A projects use this billing action.
Important - Please also ensure that the Billing Action is consistent with the additional
time, policy or direct time hours entered.
Case 0: Billable OT
If you entered one of the “BL” – “Billable” options as the sub category for overtime hours
you worked – you MUST go to the Location Tab and ensure that the Billing Action is set
to “Billable”
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Case 1: Nonbillable OT
If you entered one of the “NB” – “Nonbillable” options as the sub category for overtime
hours you worked – you MUST go to the Location Tab and update the Billing Action to
“Nonbillable”
Case 2: Policy Time or Direct Time
If you entered time on one of the Policy or Direct time projects – you must also make
the Billing Action – “Nonbillable”.
Special Note: If you are an SG&A employee (i.e. not a billable person) the system will
default to “Internal” as your billing action. You would need to change Billing Action to
“Billable” if you had billable time – you would also need to change the Resource
Category to “SG&AB”.
When finished - click on the button. This will bring you back to the Time
Report Summary page.
You can either or you can which will forward
the Time Report to your manager(s) who will then approve/deny your Time Report.
Some Important Guidelines for Dataskills Employee
Dataskills
• Not eligible for Policy Time hours (Holiday, Vacation, Sickness, Education, LOA)
• Enter all hours worked
• No time sheet needed if no hours worked for the period.
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• Dataskill will always enter their standard hours in one row and extra hours in
other line with SUB CAT as BL1.
If Salary is above $27.63/hour then all time, including overtime, is to be paid at 1.0X
their regular rate. (e.g. SUBCAT=NB1)
If Salary is $27.63/hour or less then all overtime is to be paid at 1.5X their regular
rate (e.g. SUBCAT=NB1.5)
(NOTE: The Dataskills rate is different in California for the above breakout - $47.81)
IMPORTANT – Dataskills hours will NOT be paid if the hours are not approved on
time.
Approvals
• All approvals will be done by your "Project Manager". "Project Manager" is a
PeopleSoft term meaning "Timesheet Approver". From NTT DATA's
perspective, the approver does not need the official title of Project Manager
• If your Project Manager denies your Time Report, s/he will describe "why" in the
Comments section of your Time Report before sending the report back to you
and the time report status will again change to pending.
19. Upon submission, verify it is "OK" to submit.
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Appendix A – “Common Messages and Errors”
1. No Manager Assigned
Message: “No employee id is associated with the manager of project 0000000223. If
there are no approvers established for a particular project, your transaction will be
routed to your immediate supervisor for approval.”
Type: This is a message.
Meaning: There is no Project Manager designated in the system. (Remember that
within People soft a “Project Manager” is a “Time Approver” and not necessarily the
NTT DATA Project Manager). This is not necessarily an error. Without a designated
Time Approver assigned – the Time Report will be routed for approval to your
Supervisor as identified in the HR system.
Action: No special action is needed – click on the “OK” button to return to the Time
Report.
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2. Invalid amount of time for a day
Message: “Hours entered cannot be less than zero or grater than 24. Hours entered
cannot be negative and cannot exceed 24 hours.”
Type: This is an error.
Meaning: You have attempted to enter an invalid amount of time for one day. You can
enter 0 to 24 hours. You can enter fractional time to two digits (e.g. 6.25 = 6 hours 15
minutes).
Action: No special action is needed – click on the “OK” button to return to the Time
Report.
3. Invalid time entered
Message: “Hours were entered on a combination of Project/Date that is invalid for this
employee”.
Type: This is an error message.
Meaning: The date for which you are entering Time is outside of the Start and End date
in the system. You will not be able to save this Time Report.
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Action: Consultant should get in touch which PM and ask him to send request to
admin to extend his time on project so that he can enter time. Once that change
has been made you will be able to create a new Time Report with the date in question.
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Appendix B – “Understanding Function Codes”
Conceptually, “Function” can be thought of as a “department” within a particular
“Reporting Unit”, and captures transactions that are typically linked to employee related
roles.
Examples of Function would be “Billable Salaried,” “Data skills,” “Management,”
“Marketing,” etc., which map to how expenses are managed and reported. An
additional important purpose is to define whether an expense transaction in is a direct or
indirect cost. An additional important purpose is to define whether an expense
transaction in is a direct or indirect cost.
It is a 4 character numeric value. The numbering convention provides for the following
designation based on the first character of the code:
1- Direct Costs
3 - HSD Specific Direct Costs
7 - All SG&A Costs
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Function Codes
Category Description Chartfield Value
Direct Billable Salaried 1000
Direct Billable Hourly 1100
Direct Billable Management 1150
Direct Billable Transfer 1160
Direct Application Development
Center
1170
Direct Dataskills 1200
Direct Billable Purchase Service 1300
Direct Non-Employee Direct
Expense
1400
Direct HSD-Operations 3100
Direct HSD-Data Center 3200
Direct HSD-Installed Support 3300
Direct HSD-AMI Support 3400
Direct HSD-Implementation 3500
Direct HSD-Technical Support 3600
Direct HSD-Forms 3700
SG&A Sales & Marketing 7000
SG&A Management 7100
SG&A SG&A Transfer 7120
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SG&A Recruiting 7200
SG&A Administration 7300
SG&A SG&A Purchase Service 7310
SG&A SG&A Dataskills 7320
SG&A Office 7350
SG&A HSD-Product
Development
7400
SG&A HSD-Marketing 7500
1000 – Billable Salaried: They are Regular FTE.
1150 – Billable Management: They are Regular FTE who belongs to Senior
Leadership eg- Delivery executive, Global Deliver Managers, VPs Etc.
1160 – Billable Transfer: It is used in accounting when costing resources being shared
across different business units / reporting units. Transactions are updated with
this function code as they are processed through the weekly close
1200 – Dataskills: These employees are paid for every hour that they work.
1100 – Hourly Employees. Employees are paid on the basis on hrs they work.
1170 –Application Development centre: It was originally used for NTT DATA India
staff on the General Ledger but we are not using it anymore
1300 – Billable Purchase Services: These people are subcontractors. They are not
NTT DATA employees
All of the above functions are related to people that are Billable (Direct Cost)
1400 – Non-Employee Direct Expense: This function is used for costs associated with
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other Direct Cost items that are not specific to an employee and NOT rebilled to
the client. Here are some examples:
Education Expenses: The cost of a training class, seminar, workshop, etc
Office Rent: The cost of renting a work space that is specific to a project. For
example, neither the client nor NTT DATA has office space available for the
consultant to work. So, NTT DATA needs to go out and rent additional space.
This space is only used by billable consultants.
Computer Rental: The cost of renting computer equipment that is specifically
needed by billable staff.
Telephone Expense: The cost of telephone associated specifically to billable
staff that is not related to travel.
Other Direct Expense: This category covers a lot but it relates to expenses that
are NOT associated with travel but are related to billable staff. (One example
might be the cost of shots/vaccines and prescriptions for a billable employee to
travel to India)
7XXX – SG&A: They are the Non-Billable staff. They are Corporate and reporting unit
Administration and management.
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Timesheet routing process:
Scenario Workflow in PS 9.1
Team Member submits Timesheet & Project has Timesheet Approver Assigned
Timesheet routed to Timesheet Approver
Team Member submits Timesheet & Project does not have Timesheet Approver Assigned
Timesheet routed to Employee’s HR supervisor
Team Member submits Timesheet, Project does not have Timesheet Approver Assigned & there is no HR Supervisor Assigned
If the HR Supervisor is not assigned, then employee cannot enter timesheets.
Timesheet Approver submits timesheet for the same project
Timesheet routed to Employee’s HR supervisor
Timesheet Approver submits timesheet for the same project & there is no HR Supervisor Assigned
If the HR Supervisor is not assigned, then employee cannot enter timesheets.
Timesheet Approver submits timesheet/Time adjustments on behalf of the team members (If security authorization has been updated)
Timesheet routed to a SYSADMIN i.e. HR supervisor
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