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Michael Timm
Integrated Consulting Group LLC
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Session Objectives …
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What We’ll Cover …
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What We’ll Cover …
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CATS Basics
• CATS = Cross-Application Time Sheet
Time capture and data transfer tool
Additional functionality for Payroll and FI/CO
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CATS Basics (cont.)
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CATS Basics (cont.)
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What We’ll Cover …
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Using CATS Data: Updating CO
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Using CATS Data: Updating HR
* I will demo these in R/3 4.6C; the process is similar in other versions
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Transferring CATS Data (cont.)
• All Components
• Accounting (CO)
• Human Resources
(manually)
• Plant
Maintenance/Customer
Service
• Project System
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Transferring CATS Data (cont.)
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Transferring CATS Data (cont.)
• An example
Master data
Employee John works 80 hours over a two-week pay period
John is an hourly employee who makes $15/hour and is
assigned to cost center 123-A as his home cost center
John’s company uses CATS as a time entry/capture tool
Work data
Over the two-week period, John worked 40 hours in cost
center 345-B, 30 hours in cost center 678-A, and 10 hours in
his home cost center, cost center 123-A
His gross pay for the period is 80 hours x $15/hour = $1,200
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Transferring CATS Data (cont.)
• Data transfers
From Payroll to FI/CO
John’s home cost center, 123-A, is debited $1,200 (the entire 80 hours that
he worked)
From home cost center 123-A
The CATS interface will credit John’s home cost center (123-A) 70 hours
(multiplied by a predefined activity rate, $15/hour), for a total of $1,050 –
via an internal activity allocation. This will leave a net debit of $150 (10
hours x $15/hour) on John’s home center
To cost centers 345-B and 678-A
The other side of the CATS interface activity allocation will debit cost
center (345-B) 40 hours, for a total of $600, and cost center (678-A) 30
hours, for a total of $450
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Transferring CATS Data (cont.)
• Conclusions
CATS is a great tool to use when you have hourly
employees, especially when these employees can do work
over several projects or cost centers
CATS even allows you to “charge” the worked cost centers for
different activity rates depending on the type of work/project the
employee is working on
CATS allows you to spread costs over the cost centers
actually worked in instead of the employee’s home cost
center (which is the SAP default when posting from Payroll
to FI/CO)
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What We’ll Cover …
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Creating CATS Profiles
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Creating CATS Profiles (cont.)
• Checking
“Immediate
transfer to HR”
transfers the
data to infotypes
upon save
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Creating CATS Profiles (cont.)
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Creating CATS Profiles (cont.)
• Modifiable is the
standard field
attribute
• Influencing is a
profile-specific
field attribute
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Creating ESS Profiles
• ESS profiles and CATS profiles are set up in the same manner
Profiles set up under CATS may be used by ESS
However, CATS data entry is typically done for several employees at a time,
and ESS is done for an individual
• Typically, data entered will not be set for “Immediate transfer to HR”
Batch programs should be set to run periodically to transfer the data
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Creating ESS Profiles (cont.)
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Creating ESS Profiles (cont.)
• Web settings allow for the customization of the Time Sheet layout
when viewed as a Web page
e.g., to specify how many lines for data entry appear
• Functionality available to the user may be determined
e.g., when copying the previous period work lines, whether hours
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User Parameters
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User Parameters (cont.)
• To set:
System > User profile > Own data > Parameters
Transaction code SU3
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What We’ll Cover …
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ESS Time Sheets
• Internal and external employees may use ESS Time Sheets to record
their own (or others’) working times via the Internet or company
intranet
• The Internet Time Sheets tool for recording the times transfers data
to other modules the same as CATS does
The same data elements and process shown earlier are available via CATS or
the Internet Time Sheets
Data collected from both may be processed together
Employee Employer
Time entry at any time, anywhere Decentralized time recording
Fewer administrative steps Reduction in administrative work
Ease of use Standard Web browser
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User Exits
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User Exits (cont.)
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What We’ll Cover …
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Resources
• OSS Note 376188 – Supported CATS User Exits for Internet Time
Sheets
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7 Key Points to Take Home
Questions?