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What It Is Used For
The Labor Distribution System (LDS) is an MIT-specific application that interfaces with MIT's payroll system and SAP to provide a consistent planning tool for MIT departments, labs, and centers. LDS enables users to track actual Payroll salary and related expenses as well as to forecast salary expenses. The LDS program ensures accuracy with a detailed variance process that highlights discrepancies between departmental projections and actual payroll payments (actuals). LDS also simplifies projection of complex salary distribution by automatically calculating both the unloaded and loaded salary expenses. In addition, LDS includes a variety of reports.

Authorizations & Access
You must be authorized in the Roles Database to use LDS (see the Roles Database section). Primary Authorizers* should send email to:

business-help@mit.edu
252-1177

Information you will need to provide:

- Name
- Kerberos Userid
- Profit Center Number
- Type of access
(READ or READ/WRITE)

Training and Documentation
Training is offered as the demand requires. Email Bob Davine to indicate interest.

Documentation is available in the SAP for MIT Documentation on the Web.

Email List
The LDS team maintains an email list for periodic communications to LDS users. The list includes all LDS users except those who request to be removed.

Help
The following people can be contacted for help:

Bob Davine
rdavine@mit.edu
253-2970

Fred DiPhillipo
fdiphill@mit.edu
258-8879

    

* Primary Authorizers in DLCs are responsible for maintaining authorizations over the resources of the DLC. For further information, see Primary Authorizers' Responsibilities.