AUTONOMOUS HCM
Time Assistant
Simplify workforce management with agents that keep every timesheet and leave request complete, accurate, and ready for payroll.
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Overview
The Time Assistant removes the complexity from time and absence management. It monitors submissions and approvals, prompts employees and managers about missing entries, and deploys AI agents to help fill in, submit, and approve time from anywhere. With native connections to payroll, it keeps time data accurate, complete, and ready for every pay run.
Tasks this assistant can help with:
- Detecting unsubmitted timesheets and prompting employees
- Pre-populating timesheets based on work patterns
- Validating submissions against policies at the point of entry
- Guiding employees to review, adjust, and submit timesheets
- Highlighting unauthorised timesheets and displaying approver status
- Rerouting approvals to prevent stalled workflows
- Sharing time-related context for payroll queries
Example use cases for this assistant:
- Time tracking and approvals
- Leave and absence management
- Time and attendance policy enforcement
- Overtime monitoring
- Payroll preparedness
Benefits
Faster, easier timesheet completion
Reduce the time to complete and submit timesheets with proactive notifications and guided submission processes.
Fewer time-related HR queries
Use AI-powered guidance to provide employees and managers with instant answers to local leave policy questions.
Fewer stalled approvals and delays
Use agents to identify approvers on leave, reroute approvals, and clear bottlenecks so timesheets are approved on time.
Agents used by this assistant
Use the Time Assistant to orchestrate specialised AI agents, including Joule Agents that apply SAP’s process expertise or custom agents you create.
Timesheet Service Agent
Prefills timesheets automatically and guides employees to review, adjust, and submit on time.
Time Off Service Agent
Guides employees through compliant leave creation, routes approvals, and resolves policy queries.
Timesheet Reminder Agent
Monitors timesheet submissions and approvals, flags issues early, and sends automated reminders.
Time Approval Agent
Enables managers, HR representatives, and delegated staff to efficiently manage time-related tasks such as the approval of timesheets.
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