The SAP Payroll operation OUTWP is used within Personnel Calculation Rules (PCRs) to read and make decisions based on employee master data. It queries fields from the internal Work Place/Basic Pay (WPBP) table, which is populated from infotypes such as Organizational Assignment (IT0001) and Basic Pay (IT0008).

Therefore, OUTWP can query:

Personnel areas (field PERSA from IT0001).

Pay scales (fields like TRFART, TRFGR, TRFST from IT0008).

Cost centers (the master cost center, field KOSTL from IT0001).

These are fundamental organizational and pay structure attributes used to control payroll processing.

C. Infotypes: OUTWP queries specific data fields contained within infotypes; it does not query the infotype number or the infotype as a whole object.

D. Wage types: While OUTWP LGART can technically read the wage type code from an Infotype 0008 record, its primary purpose is querying structural attributes, not the wage types themselves, which are the main objects being processed in the input table.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Operations for Personnel Calculation Rules: The official documentation for operation OUTWP lists the available parameters. It explicitly includes PERSA (Personnel Area)

KOSTL (Cost Center)

and various pay scale fields like TRFART (Pay Scale Type)

TRFGB (Pay Scale Area)

TRFGR (Pay Scale Group)

and TRFST (Pay Scale Level)

confirming that personnel areas

pay scales

and cost centers can be queried. (Access the documentation for your specific SAP release via help.sap.com).

2. Agrawal

P. K. (2010). SAP ERP HCM: Technical Principles and Programming. SAP PRESS. In Chapter 10

"Payroll and Time Management

" the section on Personnel Calculation Rules describes the OUTWP operation. It provides examples such as OUTWP PERSA and OUTWP TRFGR

demonstrating its use for querying personnel areas and pay scale data. (Specific reference: Chapter 10

Section 10.3.4).