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CATS timesheet data transfer from HR system to ECC system

Former Member

‎07-02-2013 6:45 PM

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Hi,

Background:

We have a distributed HR system. Which means our HR system sits separately to our ERP( ECC) system. We want to implement CATS for recording working time. In this kind of distributed systems SAP recommends to implement CATS in ERP system and transfer the HR mini master from the HR system into the ERP system where we have all the cost objects.

Since we are on a lower version of SAP system we are unable to implement CATS on our ERP( as we cannot implement ESS/MSS on our version ) system as suggested by SAP. Instead we now need to implement CATS on the HR system.

My Question:

Can we transfer the time-sheet data from HR system to ERP system? SAP provides standard transaction CATA and CAT6 to transfer the data from ERP to HR. However i am not sure if SAP supports the reverse. That is transfer timesheet data from HR to ERP system. Has anyone have come across a similar issue and if so how did you manage to transfer the timesheet data to ECC system?

Any idea how we can achieve this without writing complex data transfer ALE programs? Is there any config which will help us to achieve the same?

Any suggestions or pointer would be great help.

Cheers

RV

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Former Member

‎07-03-2013 10:18 AM

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Sorry just wanted to see if anyone had any inputs?

Former Member

‎07-01-2014 2:47 PM

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Hi,

Any solution found?

Former Member
In response to Former Member

‎07-01-2014 5:18 PM

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You will have to setup ALE, see the documentation for details.

Former Member
In response to Former Member

‎07-02-2014 8:46 AM

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Thanks,

but question was if there is a way to transfer CATS data from HR system to target components on another system. Yes, ALE could be set up, but as I understood it is not standard.

raymond_giuseppi
Active Contributor

‎07-02-2014 9:21 AM

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SAP recommends to implement CATS in ERP system and transfer the HR mini master from the HR system into the ERP system where we have all the cost objects.

This is more than a recommandation, OSS 174069 - CATS: distributed systems states that



It is not possibly, to provide CATS with data from within a separate logistics/accounting system.

So you should have to replicate yourself every required cost master data required (e.g. project, orders, etc. in addition to data already replicated as cost centers and send back the CATS database (ALE for CATSDB, etc.) back to logistics and control.


Regards,

Raymond