The overall process of Travel Management, which includes requesting a trip, planning a trip, and settling expenses incurred for the business trip, can be diagrammatically represented as follows:

We will learn to configure the three phases that SAP has provided. Let's closely look at the Travel Request phase and the configuration steps required for the same. The possible combinations of the Travel Management module functioning could be shown in the following table:
Module |
SAP Combinations |
---|---|
HR (Payroll) and Accounting |
SAP Travel Management and Payroll and a tight integration of the Finance module |
HR and the Travel module |
SAP Travel Management and the HR module |
Working together with Accounting and having a separate HR system |
SAP Travel Management and Finance Accounting |
Operate without HR and Accounting |
SAP Travel Management |
We will see how Travel...