Transfer to Plant Maintenance and Customer Service

Use

You can use report RCATSTPM ( Time Sheet: Transfer to Plant Maintenance/Customer Service ) to transfer time sheet data to Plant Maintenance or Customer Service (PM/CS). The report generates confirmation documents for maintenance or service orders and, if necessary, goods movements for backflushes.

You can transfer time sheet data that is assigned the processing status 30 ( Approved ) or 60 ( Canceled ). The report transfers the data from the interface table CATSPM to PM/CS.

Integration

When the system generates confirmations for maintenance or service orders, it triggers activity allocation in Controlling at the same time.

Recommendation

Transferring canceled data to PM/CS can adversely affect system performance. When the report transfers canceled records, it reads all the confirmations for the relevant operation for each cell that has been changed in the time sheet. The load on the system increases accordingly.

We recommend therefore that you

  • Use only orders that have been created for a relatively short period of time (for example, a standing order with a runtime of one year)

    The more confirmations generated for an order, 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, if you have performance problems

Features

Selection

  • Select the records you want to transfer by personnel number, date, order number or document number.

  • If you do not want the current date to be the posting date of the transferred records, you can manually enter the posting date you require. You can also determine the posting date you require for cancellations.

  • 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 processing an order when you run the report, the order is locked. You can enter a number of lock attempts for the report. The report then attempts to perform the transfer as many times as you have specified.

  • For a detailed list of the data that has been transferred, select the Log option.

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

Output

If you select the Log option, the system displays a log after the transfer is complete.

If some of the records could not be posted in Plant Maintenance or Customer Service , the report generates an error pool. The records containing errors are flagged as transferred. You can postprocess them in Plant Maintenance or Customer Service . Note if you do this that the data in Plant Maintenance or Customer Service is no longer consistent with the data in the Time Sheet .