CAT 5 & CAT 9

[Former Member]

Hi, I would like to know why we do CATs to tranfer the time sheet cost ? We have PO's raised and GR done and there is no process to transfer them. Can the time sheets entries be made directly made into projects.

[Former Member]

CATS: Transfer to Project System

Title

Time Sheet: Transfer to Project System

Purpose

You use this report to transfer time sheet data to Project System (PS). The report generates confirmations for networks and, if necessary, goods movements for backflushes.

You can transfer time sheet data that has the processing status 30 (Approved) or 60 (Canceled). The report transfers the records from the interface table CATSPS to PS.

Integration

When generating confirmations for networks, the system also triggers an activity allocation in Controlling.

Prerequisites

To postprocess records that the system could not post, you require authorization for the Network Confirmation: Collective Confirmation transaction (CN27).

Recommendation

Transferring canceled data to Project System can lead to poorer system performance because, for canceled records, the system reads all confirmations on the respective operation for each cell that has been changed in the time sheet. The burden on the system increases accordingly.

We recommend therefore that you

• Select only the networks that have been created for a relatively short period

The more confirmations generated for a network, the poorer the report's performance when canceling confirmations.

• Specify in the Number of tasks field that the report generates several tasks for each transfer when you have performance problems

Selection

• Select the data you want to transfer to PS according to personnel number, date, network, or document number.

• If you do not want to use the current date as the posting date of the transferred records, enter a posting date in the relevant field.

• If you are recording a cancelation, enter a posting date for cancelation, if required.

• In the Number of tasks field, specify the number of tasks into which you want the data transfer to be divided. This applies particularly if you are processing large volumes of data.

• If another user is already processing a network when you execute the transfer report, the network is locked. You can therefore enter a number of lock attempts for the report. The report then attempts to perform the transfer as many times as you specify.

• If you simply want to enter a service for an operation, without this affecting the network scheduling, select Transfer without dates. The report then transfers the data without the actual start or finish dates.

• For a list detailing which data was transferred, select Log.

• If you only want to check which data can be successfully transferred and which data may generate errors, select Test run.

Output

If you select the Log option, the report displays a log once the transfer has been completed.

If records could not be posted during transfer, the report generates a separate error pool. The records containing errors are flagged as transferred. You can postprocess them in PS. Note however that the data in PS no longer corresponds to the data in the time sheet

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am not sure exactly what do you mean?. You mean to say avoidance of CAT5 & CAT9.

The logic here is every time entry hours are reviewed and approved and then transferred to resepctive receivers. It is general process being practiced.

Note that there is possibility that there are rejections and also changes being done after approval. After completing all these steps we need to transfer the final approved hours. Because of all these factors involved transferring of approved time is  necessary and hence we use CAT5. This practice is being followed in Industry and same is being followed in SAP. This is not a new thing.

Where as GR/IR these are resulted in business transaction which results posting directly.

Hope above sense.

Thanks,

Sudhakar

[Former Member]

Hi,

Do you mean that you want to post actuals without having to follow the timesheet proces? If yes, then this can surely be done. You can use tcode KB21N for this.

Regards,

Gokul

[sanjeevc]

you can use workforce planing instead of time sheet scenario.

try CMP2 or CMP9

Regards,

Sanjeev