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SAP Human Capital Management

Time Recording using CATS

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Objective

To gain understanding of the key business process of the Cross Application Time Sheet.

To gain understanding of the key terms and definitions of the Cross Application Time Sheet.

To gain understanding of the integration of CATS with other SAP modules.

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Agenda

►CATS - Introduction

CATS - Pre-Requisites

CATS - When and Why

CATS - Basics

CATS - Process

CATS - Integration

CATS - Benefits

CATS - User Interface

CATS - Authorization

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Introduction

WHAT IS IT

Better Known as CATS and formally named as Cross

application time sheet.

CATS is a standard tool provided by SAP and is a cross

application component of the SAP R/3 System .

CATS is an integrated function that is used to enter actual

time data important in HR, PS, PM, CS, CO & MM –SRV

CATS enable to record time data in the time sheet for

Various Components on one central Screen, to collect

employees working times towards other SAP System

applications (target components) that receives and process

Employee or labor times

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Agenda

►CATS - Introduction

CATS - Pre-Requisites

► CATS - When and Why

CATS - Basics

CATS - Process

CATS - Integration

CATS - Benefits

CATS - User Interface

CATS - Authorization

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When & Why..……CATS !

When it is required to have a well equipped tool that meets every business

requirements and daily information flow is becoming increasing importance

particularly when it comes to collect times and activities spent on

different projects,events, sales processes or simply attendance at events.

When a business entity or a company has in real time to collect the time

entries of each employee that could be used by Administrative

assistants, Project leaders, Managers etc and each of business

requirement provided by a company,Market ,or Process..while other

functionalities of SAPHR module like Recruitment Process, Payroll

process etc. is out of scope or not required or not implemented.

When it is required to check the accuracy of time entries ,such as Validity

period, the budget status, and the quotas available.

When it is required to have a user friendly ,quick,simple,efficient , in

built approval and default values.

When the requirement of Seamless integration with other modules comes

in

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Agenda

► CATS - Introduction

CATS - Pre-Requisites

► CATS - When and Why

► CATS - Basics

CATS - Process

CATS - Integration

CATS - Benefits

CATS - User Interface

CATS - Authorization

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�CATS Basics �

• CATS = Cross-Application Time Sheet

• CATS uses the SAP Human Resources authorization concept

• CATS may be updated via transaction code CAT2 or via a � company intranet Web site

• The Time Sheet is a self-service application which allows both internal and external employees to enter their own working times. Alternatively, data can be recorded centrally in data entry office by an administrator

CATS may be used as the time transfer tool to update Human � Resources with hours worked by employee

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�CATS Basics �

• CATS may be used to enter one-time � earnings/deductions for employees

• Data entered in CATS may be set to require a procedure � for approval

• Using CATS, it is possible to capture an employee’s time � across different cost centers, Project system objects like

WBS or networks and service orders

Update HR, CO, CS, PS and PM/CS (or a combination of

any or all of these) with time worked by employee by

activity

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Agenda

► CATS - Introduction

► CATS - Pre-Requisites

► CATS - When and Why

► CATS - Basics

CATS - Process

CATS - Integration

CATS - Benefits

CATS - User Interface

CATS - Authorization

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CATS –Prerequisites

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CATS Mini Master

We record person-related time data in the Cross-Application Time Sheet. Each employee must have a mini master. In it, each employee is identified by a personnel number unique to him or her. The mini master is stored in the Human Resources data entry screens, known as infotypes. Infotypes are data entry screens for storing employee data. Infotypes are classified logically according to content, and contain both optional and required fields. They are used for the Cross-Application Time Sheet even if Human Resources is not implemented.

The following HR infotypes are a minimum requirement for the CATS mini master:

Actions (0000)�This infotype is used to enter initial data when an employee is hired.

Organizational Assignment (0001)�This infotype contains information on the employee's position within the company's enterprise and personnel structure.

Personal Data (0002)�This infotype contains employee data such as name, date and place of birth, and so on.

You are also recommended to use the Time Sheet Defaults infotype (0315).�This infotype stores data that is used for default values in the time sheet.

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Personnel Actions: Mini Master

An HR mini-master is required for all employees for whom you enter time data using CATS.

If you use the R/3 Human Resources component, it provides the employee data.

If you do not use R/3 Human Resources, you can use the personnel action CATS (Mini master) to enter initial employee data. If you use this action, you can create all the infotypes required for the mini master at the same time. The system leads you through the required screens.

The personnel actions can be accessed from the Administration menu within Personnel Management. Choose Personnel Actions to access the list of actions. The list contains the CATS (Mini master) personnel action.

If you want to carry out the personnel action to create the mini master, select the action by choosing Execute, fill out the required fields in the various entry screens (infotypes), and save your entries each time.

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Time Sheet Defaults

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Configuration of Data Entry Profiles

CONTENTS :

Structure of the data entry Profile

Configuration of data Entry Profile

Variants for the Data Entry Processes

Choose fields for the data entry profile

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Areas Controlled by the CATS Data Entry Profiles

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Data Entry Profiles : General Settings

The general settings control the entry of data and the CATS process.

Profile changeable: The end user can change various settings for the data entry screen while it is in use.

With target hours: Target hours are displayed in the upper section of the time sheet. We determine how we want the target hours to be determined in the Time settings section.

With totals line: A line with the day total is displayed.

With clock times, No deduction of breaks: If users enter clock times (start and end of work) instead of hours, unpaid breaks (according to the work schedule in Time Management) are not deducted when the number of hours worked is calculated.

Workdays only: Only workdays from the factory calendar are displayed.

Release future times: Data for future periods can be released.

Release on saving: Data is released immediately when it is saved.

Approval required: Data must be approved in a separate step.

No changes after approval: Approved data can no longer be changed.

Immediate transfer to HR: Data is posted directly to Human Resources.

Authorization: See the Assigning Authorizations unit.

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Data Entry profile : Time Settings

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Data Entry Profile : Person Selection

Enter for several personnel numbers: We can enter data for several persons at the same time. (Choosing Settings allows you to select persons according to various criteria described below.)

Select via pers. list: The system displays a list of personnel numbers for you to select from. We must always use the list option when entering data for several personnel numbers.

We have the following alternatives for generating the list of personnel numbers:

Time administrator: The system selects the personnel numbers that are assigned to the relevant administrator. (Organizational Assignment infotype (0001))

Organizational unit: The system selects the personnel numbers that are assigned to the specified organizational unit.

Cost center: The system selects the personnel numbers that are assigned to the specified cost center.

Selection report: To select the personnel numbers, We can define our own report or use the standard selection report RPLFST01. If We assign a report variant to the SAP user via the user parameter VSR (Selection report variant), the user can skip the report's selection screen.

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Data Entry Profile : Cost Accounting Variant

If we implement Payroll, various data entry scenarios are available for cost accounting. They are dealt with in more detail in a later unit.

Assignment of personnel costs to the master cost center: In this scenario the employee's master cost center is debited with the personnel costs. The costs are not allocated between the master cost center and the receiver object or sender cost center of an activity.

Assignment of personnel costs to the receiver object: In this scenario we assign the personnel costs for the recorded working times to the receiver object of an activity. We would use this scenario if we do not perform activity allocation.

Assignment of personnel costs to the sender: The personnel costs are assigned to the sender cost center or the sender business process of the activity. In addition, activity allocation is performed.

Activity allocation between master cost center and sender: The personnel costs are assigned to the employee's master cost center. Activity allocation is performed. If the sender of an activity allocation is a business process or a cost center other than the employee's master cost center, an additional activity allocation is performed between the sender and the employee's master cost center.

Account assignment to activity type: Account assignment to an activity type is possible if you use the last two scenarios described above.

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Data Entry Profiles : Default Values

We can set default values for the Cross-Application Time Sheet using the following options:

Controlling area: The default value is the controlling area defined in the employee's organizational assignment (Organizational Assignment infotype (0001) in Human Resources).

Master cost center: The default value is the cost center defined in the employee's organizational assignment (Organizational Assignment infotype (0001) in Human Resources).

Cost center, Activity type, Sender business process: The default values for the time sheet are determined from the specifications made for the personnel number in the Time Sheet Defaults infotype (0315). These values are only taken if a receiver has been specified.

Purchase order, Service master: The default values for the time sheet are determined from the specifications made for the personnel number in the Time Sheet Defaults infotype (0315).

Attendance type, Wage type: The default values are determined based on the specifications made in the data entry profile.

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Data Entry Profile : Data Entry Checks

Collision: The system checks for time collisions between CATS records. Time collisions can occur in records that specify clock times or in full-day absence records.

More than 24 hours: The system checks whether more than 24 hours have been entered for an employee.

Time type target hours: This field works in combination with the With target hours field in the General settings section. You can use the With target hours field to specify a time type, which is filled during time evaluation. The corresponding hours appear in the time sheet. If no time type is specified, the system uses the target hours from the employee's work schedule. They can also be determined by an SAP enhancement.

Subtract HR hours: Attendances and absences that were entered in HR Time Management are deducted from the target hours.

Upward/downward tolerance: Minimum or maximum percentage by which the value entered may fall below or exceed the target hours.

Quotas: A message may be issued if attendance or absence quotas in HR are exceeded.

Collision with HR: CATS records may collide with records from Time Management, for example, records with clock times and full-day absence records.

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Field Selection

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Agenda

► CATS - Introduction

► CATS - Pre-Requisites

► CATS - When and Why

► CATS - Basics

► CATS - Process

CATS - Integration

CATS - Benefits

CATS - User Interface

CATS - Authorization

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CATS Process

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PROCESS

Contents :

Time collection ~ Using Work list or Direct

Entry(Mandatory)

Release Process (Optional)

Approval Process (Optional )

Transfer to Target components(Mandatory)

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Process Flow

Process flow

The process from entering data to making it available for transfer to the target components

comprises the following required and optional stages:

1. You enter working times (required)

2. You release entered data for approval or for transfer to the target components (required)

3. You check data using an approval procedure (optional)

Once these steps have been completed, the system writes the data to the interface tables for the

target components. Depending on whether you use an approval procedure as part of the data

entry process, the system writes the data from the database table for the time sheet (CATSDB)

to the interface tables:

• Following approval of a record, if you use an approval procedure

• Following the release of a record, if you do not use an approval procedure

Depending on the settings for the data entry profile, the data is released manually from

the release view or automatically when the record is saved.

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CATS Classic (CAT2) – Point of Entry

Enter transaction „CAT2“

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Entering Time Data

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CAT2 – Time sheet

Enter „ISP_PS“ the data entry profile, which

Determines the layout of the data screen

Enter „17053“ is the personnel number, which is unique to every employee

Then click on

the „Enter

Times“ Button

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Time entry sheet for Single person

This is a possible CATS entry sheet:

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Time Entry for Multiple persons

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The Time Sheet Work list

The worklist consists of employee-specific and object-related information, for example an employee's planned hours from operations from Logistics. The worklist can be used in profiles for single entry in the Logistics components.

The worklist is displayed in a separate section of the time sheet, above the data entry section.

The contents and the display fields of the worklist are defined using the profile maintenance and the field selection for the worklist.

The worklist may contain the following information:

Time data that has been recorded in the time sheet

Data from Logistics: Resource planning (capacity splits), pools of confirmations, activities assigned to the employee based on his or her work center assignment

Customer-specific worklist that has been created using an SAP enhancement (CATS0001).

The lines in the worklist contain information on planned or completed work. They can be copied to the time sheet and overwritten if necessary.

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CAT2 – Data Entry

Click here to „Save“ the entered times

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Processing Status of Time Sheet Data

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Entering Data for Several Personnel Numbers

You can enter time data for several personnel numbers using a list of personnel numbers.�This requires a profile that permits data entry using a list of personnel numbers.

According to your selection in the settings, the system displays a person list from which you can select one or more persons and enter time data for them.

You can use the Settings function to select a person list according to different criteria. You can generate a list of personnel numbers according to different criteria. You can select employees for whom a particular time administrator in a specific administrator group is responsible. The time administrator and administrator group are stored in the Organizational Assignment infotype (0001) for the employees. You can also select employees from a particular organizational unit or cost center. An employee's assignment to an organizational unit and cost center is also stored in the Organizational Assignment infotype (0001). A further option is to generate the list of personnel numbers using a report. In the standard system, report RPLFST01 is available for this purpose.

When you set up the data entry profile, you choose one of the four selection options Time administrator, Organizational unit, Cost center or Selection report as a default value for selecting the list of personnel numbers.

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Approving the Time Data

Approving time Data

The purpose of the approval step is to check the time data before it is transferred to the target component. The approval step is optional and depends on the setup of the CATS profile.

Only released time data (status ‘20‘) can be approved.

Only approved time data (if an approval is required) can be transferred to the target components.

At the approval stage, time data can either be approved or rejected. If the data is rejected, a rejection reason can be specified. Rejection reasons are stored in Customizing.

If We have set up you data entry profile so that the release and approval steps are skipped, the time data is assigned status '30' (approved) when it is saved.

Approved time data is flagged as approved and copied to the interface tables for the target components.

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Approval

There are three selection options for selecting the time data to be approved.

Selection using organizational structure. For example, you can select all employees assigned to a particular organizational unit.

Selection according to personal data. You can select time data according to the employee's organizational assignment.

Selection according to time sheet data. You can select time data with a particular status or according to sender parameters such as cost center, purchase order, or receiver parameters such as cost center, order, and so on.

The color of the traffic light changes according to which task has been carried out:

Green: The entries have been approved.

Yellow: The entries are available for approval.

Red: The entries have been rejected.

If a data record is rejected, it can be assigned a rejection reason. Rejection reasons can be stored in Customizing.

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Approval using a workflow

If you want to use workflow for the approval process, select the relevant option in the data entry profile. Employees responsible for approving time data are notified automatically and can run the approval report (RCATSB01) for the relevant personnel numbers directly from their Inbox.

The SAP standard system includes three different standard workflow tasks for the CATS approval process:

Approver specified by employee (task ID TS40007901): There is no standard role for this task, which means the employee who has entered time data and wants to have it approved must specify a recipient for the work item when he or she releases the data.

Approval by superior (task ID TS20000460): If you want data to be approved by the employee's superior, specify this standard workflow task in the data entry profile. The superior is determined according to the staff assignments in Organizational Management.

Approval by time administrator (task ID TS20000459): If you want data to be approved by the employee's time administrator, specify this standard workflow task in the data entry profile. Time administrators are assigned to employees in the Organizational Assignment infotype (0001).

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Processing Status

The data We entered in the time sheet is first stored in the CATS database with status 10 (In process). After the data is released, the status changes to 20 (released for approval).

Once the approval step has been performed, the data is assigned either status 40 (Rejected) or 30 (Approved). A document number is assigned for each approved record. Transferring data does not alter its status, however, a transfer indicator is set in the interface tables.

If approved data is subsequently changed in the time sheet, the status of the original data record changes to 50 (Changed after approval). If the new record is also approved, a document number is assigned to this record too. The status of the original record then becomes 60 (Cancelled).

A cancelled time sheet data record is handled as follows when it is transferred:

Project System: The original confirmation is cancelled.

Controlling (CO): A negative posting is created. The original CO document remains in the system.

Human Resources (HR): The infotype record based on the cancelled data is deleted. If necessary, retroactive accounting is triggered.

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Agenda

► CATS - Introduction

► CATS - Pre-Requisites

► CATS - When and Why

► CATS - Basics

► CATS - Process

► CATS - Integration

CATS - Benefits

CATS - User Interface

CATS - Authorization

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CATS - INTEGRATION OVERVIEW

►CATS allows time-entries collection for further processing in SAP target modules. Therefore, one of the components listed below must be installed prior to using CATS. The time entries either can be provided individually or in combination with the target components. Inside SAP core components, nearly all modules can be filled with information through CATS. These include:

► Human Resources ( HR ): attendance, absences, and

remuneration information

►Project System ( PS ): confirmation for networks

► Controlling ( CO ): internal activity allocation

►CRM: Service order confirmations(Through Middle ware Integration)

►External Services ( MM-SRV ): entry of services performed by external

providers

► Plant Maintenance ( PM ): confirmation for orders)

►Customer Service ( CS, formerly Service Management): confirmation for orders

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INTEGRATION WITH OTHER SAP MODULES

The diagram will show that Time Management is linked with various HR modules and other applications within SAP. Examples:

Working times are transferred as attendances in time management and as confirmations in logistics;

Time balances and time types are formed and transferred to account;

Results are transferred to payroll

Employee attendances and absences serve as information on employee availability for capacity planning in logistics.

Working times recorded in time recording systems are transferred as personnel time events to time management

Possible Integration with Other Human Resources Components

Time Evaluation (PT-EV) - Evaluating an employee’s working times

Payroll (PY) - Running the payroll for an employee

Shift Planning (PT-SP) - Planning and recording working times

Possible Integration with Other SAP Components

Plant Data Collection (PP-PDC) - Recording working times using external time recording devices

Cross-Application Time Sheet (CA-TS) - Cross-application time recording for internal and external employees in Time Management

Employee Self-Service - Employees recording their own working times

Internet Application Component - Display and overview of an employee’s shift plan

Capacity Planning (PP-CRP) - Determining an employee’s availability for capacity planning and distribution of requirements

Business Information Warehouse (CA-BW) - Summary of features, indicators, and units for data requirement and processing to facilitate decision-making.

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INTEGRATIO WITH OTHER SAP PRODUCTS

CATS is also integrated with the surrounding SAP

products, such as:

►Business Intelligence—Business Information Warehouse ( BW )

►Enterprise Portal ( EP )

► Internet Transaction Server ( ITS )

►CATS for Service Provider

► CATS Offline thanks to the Mobile Engine

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CATS

TIME-ENTRIES FOR PROJECT SYSTEM

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TIME ENTRIES to PS Using CATS

Pre- Requisites :

Project system Module should have been activated

Project should exists and structured either with Networks /Activities

or WBS elements

Respective object (Networks/Activities or WBS element) should have

released

Activities should have been assigned with Work Centers & Activity

types

Cats Mini Master with Data entry profiles

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CAT2 – Time Entry Project System

Click here to search for the network activity.

Having found the right network activity- select it

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Time Entries for WBS elements

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CAT2 – Time Entry for PS

Click here to „Save“ the entered times

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Transferring the Time Data

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CATS –Transfer to Project System

Time sheet data records are transferred to the Project System (PS) as confirmations.

The data is transferred using the transfer report RCATSTPS, which generates confirmation documents in the Project System.

The data is transferred to the Project System if the following fields in the time sheet are filled:

Network number

Activity number

If there are activities in Project System that do not require confirmations (this depends on how they are set up for the network), the system recognizes that the data must be transferred to Controlling (for activity allocation) rather than to Project System.

The system uses the working time attributes to determine the target component to which a data record must be transferred.

PS example: If a network number and activity number are entered in the time sheet, the data is transferred to Project System (PS). A confirmation is also generated in the Project System.

Note: Data cannot be transferred to Controlling and Logistics simultaneously. The cost center is assigned to the network, therefore a simultaneous transfer would result in a double posting.

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Why to Transfer

The time data is not transferred to the target component immediately. Instead, when the data is entered, it is saved to the database table for the time sheet (CATSDB).

When the data is approved, it is written to the independent interface tables of the target components. The system uses the working time attributes (network, attendance/absence type, and so on) to determine which data belongs to which target component.

The data is transferred to each target component separately. This means that you can set up different transfer intervals for the different target components, for example, daily for Human Resources and weekly for the Project System. You can also transfer data to several target components in one step.

There are special functions for post processing any errors that occur during transfer.

Times entered in CATS will reside in table CATSDB until it is approved and will not hit the target components and Entering the times in CATS shall not confirm the activities in PS

Approving the entered times shall make the time sheets get resided in the Interface table. Approving the Times shall not post the actual costs and actual times to target components

Only transferring the times to target compnents shall make the cost objects with Actual costs /Actual times and there upon confirmation takes place.

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Time Sheet Data Transfer – Project System

Enter transaction „CAT5“

Enter the personnel

Number e.g. 10753,

which is unique for

every employee

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Time Sheet Data Transfer – Project System

Mark „Log“, this determines the records displayed

By the system.

Mark „Test run, this determines whether or not

a test run is executed.

Then click „Execute“.

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Time Sheet Data Transfer – Project System

Note the confirmed postings

In the screen.

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Connection to the Target Component

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CATS –PS Confirmations

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Error Handling after data transfer to PS

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COST DETERMINATION & COST ASSIGNMENT

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PS – CO – CATS Integration for Cost Calculation

A network contains operations for the individual activities within a project. For each operation, the expected duration, work and type of activity is planned - in days and hours. The actual hours worked are confirmed to the operations of a network.

An operation is assigned to a work center. Operations can be assigned to different work centers within one network.

The work center is assigned to a cost center. Several work centers can be assigned to the same cost center. Activity types are planned for cost centers. The activity types represent the activity performed within the cost centers. They are assigned to operations in networks, for example. Note: Activity types can also be assigned to the work center.

Work centers can also be assigned to an organizational unit from Human Resources. Positions are assigned to an organizational unit. The positions are occupied by persons who normally perform the work.

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Determining Actual costs

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Determining Costs Using the Plan Activity price of an Activity Type

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Assigning the Activity Price Using the Time Sheet

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Determining the Activity price using an SAP Enhancement

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CATS

TIME- ENTRIES FOR CO(Internal Orders)

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CATS- Internal Orders

Pre –requisites

Activation of CO Module in SAP

Internal order should have been created and released in Controlling

CATS Mini Master and Data entry profile should have been

Created

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Time-entries for Internal Orders

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CATS –Internal Order Approval process

Once the time sheet entries are entered in CATS they should be

Released and saved .

Once the time sheet is released , it routes through next process of

Approval

Once the times sheets are approved by the authority , they need to

be transferred to Internal orders for updating the actual costs and

actual hours to get updated.

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CATS –Transfer to CO

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Integration with CO(Internal Orders)

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Integration with CO(Internal Orders)

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Actual Costs for internal orders

There are three different ways of determining the costs:

Determining costs using the plan activity price of an

activity type

Assigning the activity price using the time sheet

Determining the activity price using an SAP

enhancement

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CATS

TIME-ENTRIES FOR CRM

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CATS –CRM Pre - requisites

SAP CRM –ERP Integration

CRM -

1)Service Confirmation Management

2) Defined valuation types and service types that are used in confirmation items to determine different rates for billing transaction type for confirmation

3)Master Data

ERP –

1) CATS Mini master

2) Data entry profile

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Integration with CRM

CONTROLLING

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CRM > CATS Process flow

SERVICE ORDER

CRM

Server

SAP ECC

Create service confirmation

Maintain and Verify quantities and Durations

Maintain and Verify Accounting indicators service and Valuation types

Complete and Save Service Confirmation

System Transfers working time to Cross application time sheet(CATS)

System settles Costs to Controlling Objects

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Call Center Agents/Service Representatives and Field Service Engineers need to

record the number of hours they have worked on a specific customer reported

problem

These hours can either be covered by a service contract or billable to the customer

Regardless, these hours need to be reflected in the time sheet of � the particular employee in SAP HR

CRM Service provides the capability to upload labor hours entered by

an engineer/service representative to the time sheet in HR

To upload labor hours to the time sheet in SAP HR:

-The Labor hours have to be entered in the service confirmation

Along with this we can use the service type and Valuation type

Service Type could be values like “Junior, Senior, Platinum” and � Valuation Type could be “Regular Time” and “Overtime”

CRM -Time sheet Integration

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CRM -Time Sheet Integration

To upload labor hours to the time sheet in SAP HR: The engineer should be identified in the partner function “Executing Service Employee" with the appropriate personnel number stored in the BP master data

►The CATS data entry profile should be set up in the CRM plug-in in SAP ERP

→This profile controls the behavior of CATS when integrating data from CRM

For example, if overtime hours are not allowed then the profile can be configured to raise an error

It is possible to control if the labor hours are posted into the time sheet or simply posted in the CATSDB table for the purpose of recording costs

This is controlled by customizing the mapping between Service Type, Valuation Type, and Attendance and Absence types

Two fields are used in SAP CRM – the service type and the valuation type. You have to maintain these at item level in the CRM document. The data is then replicated in SAP R/3 and assigned to an activity type there. It is required to assign an activity type to a CRM service type and valuation type for the service item for the Costs and Billing

►Use transaction CAT2 to post data from CATSDB to the appropriate Account Assignment Object like the Internal Order

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Integration with MM-External Service Management

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The system uses the working time attributes to determine the target component to which a data record must be transferred.

MM-SRV example: If a sending purchase order, a sending purchase order item, and a service number are entered in the time sheet, the data is transferred to the service entry sheet in External Services Management (MM-SRV).

Note: For the system to be able to identify clearly the data to be transferred, the activity number must not appear more than once in the purchase order.

Transferred CATS data must be accepted in External Services Management.

You cannot use the time sheet to cancel time data that has already been transferred to the target component. If you need to cancel data, do this in MM-SRV.

If the purchase order does not contain an account assignment, the account assignment category “x” (= all auxiliary account assignments) is used in the time sheet. The system must be set up so that a G/L account for the service number is found automatically.

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Integration with HR Module

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Agenda

► CATS - Introduction

► CATS - Pre-Requisites

► CATS - When and Why

► CATS - Basics

► CATS - Process

► CATS - Integration

► CATS - Benefits

CATS - User Interface

CATS - Authorization

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CATS – Benefits

In a nutshell, the key benefits of using CATS are:

►Single point of entry for all working time processes (less administrative paper

work )

►Release and approval process to enforce the CATS process-efficiency

►Large panel of interfaces provided for each type of employee ( sales representatives, managers, super users, end users, etc. )

►Real-time access to the information, making reporting more accurate

►Information provided to the employee can be defaulted

►Time Sheet can be Web-enabled

►Quicker follow-up on critical projects activities; enhanced billing process

thanks to weekly time collection

► Full integration with SAP products: SAP Enterprise Portal , Internet

Transaction Server , Business Information Warehouse , etc.

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Agenda

► CATS - Introduction

► CATS - Pre-Requisites

► CATS - When and Why

► CATS - Basics

► CATS - Process

► CATS - Integration

► CATS - Benefits

► CATS - User Interface

CATS - Authorization

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CATS - User Interfaces

CATS – Classic

CATS Notebook

Web-based CATS

CATSXT

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Agenda

► CATS - Introduction

► CATS - Pre-Requisites

► CATS - When and Why

► CATS - Basics

► CATS - Process

► CATS - Integration

► CATS - Benefits

► CATS - User Interface

► CATS - Authorization

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CATS Authorizations

Users who work with the Cross-Application Time Sheet require several special authorizations, for:

Cross-Application Time Sheet transactions

Access to master data from Human Resources to be able to create, change, and display the mini master

Entering or displaying time sheet data

Approving time data and displaying time sheet data in reports

Access to the necessary data in the target components (authorizations specific to that component)

The CATS authorization concept is based on the one used in Human Resources, with the exception of the authorizations required for the target components and the authorizations for starting transactions.

In Human Resources, an authorization check is performed to see whether a user has authorization to display, change, or approve certain infotypes. If an infotype is subdivided into subtypes, a user's authorization can be checked on this level too.

In HR, authorizations can be assigned according to organizational criteria or specifically within a user's own data. If you assign authorizations to a user's own data, a user ID must have been entered for the employee in the Communication infotype (0105). In addition, the authorization check must have been activated in Customizing (IMG: Personnel Administration -> Tools -> Administration Management -> Maintain Authorization Main Switches.)

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