Confirmation via Time Sheets
(CATS) 
Use
The Time Sheet (CATS) is a cross application component of the SAP system, which employees in your company and external companies can use by to make confirmations for networks and to copy them to the Project System(PS). Alternatively confirmations can be made centrally in a data entry office.
The data entered in the Time Sheet can be used in several applications. For instance, apart from data that is copied to the Project System, you can also simultaneously enter data for Personnel Administration (PA) and Material Management (MM), Plant Maintenance(PM) and Customer Service (CS).
Integration
When you confirm using the Time Sheet, you use several Project System functions
For more information on these functions, refer to Confirmation Directly in the Project System
Prerequisites
To be able to make confirmations using Time Sheets, you must have authorization for a corresponding data entry profile. This authorization is entered in Customizing.
You must have determined in Customizing for the Project System
· That data should be copied to the Project System
· How the data entry process is organized
· Who is authorized to display, enter or approve data
· Which data the users should enter
Features
You can choose between different entry methods in Customizing. You need to decide whether,
· Individual employees should enter their data themselves or whether the data is entered centrally, for instance, in a date entry office.
· Data that has been entered needs to be approved
· This approval process is simplified by using a special SAP Business Workflow
The system administration can grant precise authorizations for entering, approving and analyzing data. It can also change the layout of the entry screen to suit the needs of the users.
When entering confirmations,
· You need neither special knowledge nor authorizations in the Project System
· You use a simple, comfortable and specially adapted entry screen
· The system suggests default values
· You can copy data from a work list to the Time Sheet entry screen.
In the work list there are
- Data that you have already entered with the time sheet
- Activities for which you are planned
- Confirmation pools
Constraints
As opposed to Confirmation Directly in the Project System it is not possible to
· Confirm a quantity (for instance number of pieces or liters) in addition to the duration and the work done.
· Trigger millstone functions.
Activities
You make confirmations in the Time Sheet and then release them for transfer to the Project System. If an approval process has been set up, the confirmation must be approved before transfer.
Data that is waiting for transfer to the Project System are transferred by the report program CATS: Transfer program (RCATSTPS) to the Project System.
If, after transfer from the Time Sheet, the system finds errors in the confirmation data, it creates an error pool. You have to process this error pool.
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