Time consumer
ConceptfoundationA downstream product that receives Time and Labor data: Global Payroll, Project Costing, or the Project Execution Management offering of Project Portfolio Management.
What people get wrong
The confusions are the difficulty. Each one is a belief that sounds right and is not.
- That consumer validation rules are configured in Time and Labor. They are delivered by the consumer.
Recall it
A time consumer is one of three products. Name them, and say which one is the reason a time card approval period can affect whether a worker gets paid.
Global Payroll, Project Costing, and the Project Execution Management offering of Project Portfolio Management. Global Payroll is the one that turns approved and transferred time into pay, so it is the consumer whose approval period explains a missing payment.
Memory hook: Pay, Cost, Staff. Payroll is the one that pays.
Rests on OTL-CONSUMER-050.
Taught in
- The Time and Labor mental modelWhat Time and Labor actually decides, why the processing order matters, and how to think about a time problem from the first stage rather than the last.
- Time Consumer SetsHow Time and Labor decides which downstream systems receive time, which validations they contribute, and why the set locks once a profile uses it.
Related
- Terminology glossary — what a term means, and what people get wrong when they use it