CAT5 error

[former_member412338]

Hi Gurus,

My client is using CATS functionality, user is charging time in CAT2, then his manager is approving time and at every month end user is transferring cost to PS by running CAT5.

I am getting problem in CAT5. At time of CAT5 if budget exceeded or cost center with activity type is not maintained then system post confirmation but not post CO posting.  Our client run CAT5 every month end and due to above mentioned reason errors come. Now user supplement the budget or maintain the cost center activity type master record and run COFC(reprocessing actual cost)  but now previous months has been closed in system so COFC throw error that “activity allocation period has been locked”. Due to some restriction we cannot open closed periods and we have lot of error records like this from January 2013.

Now I found one SAP note (301574) which pick error records(from AFRC table) and change the posting date as todays date and post it(AFRP3 Table). After that one correction program is mention which post the CO postings.

Now my doubts are as below-

1. The program mentioned in SAP note (301574) has input parameters as number(error records number) but I am not able to understand on which behalf this program is picking the records. For example if I have 1000 error records and in program I am mentioning 10 then program choosing randomly 10 numbers but as per program logic it should consider first 10 records.
2. The correction program CORUPROC is not posting CO entry.

Please suggest am i using correct note or some other options is also suit for this.

Please help me if someone worked on this ,It will be great  helpful.

Regards

[Former Member]

Hello Vindhesh,

COFC reprocess confirmations with problems in actual costs.

Errors that occur when determining cost and checking budgets do not feature in the error pool. The system places them in a separate post processing pool for cost determination. You process them as normal in the target component.

Check

360062 - CATS:Unable to display errors of actual costs calculation

When the error has been fixed the entries in COFC must be reprocessed. Alternatively the erroneous confirmation could be cancelled.

Check SAP notes 593554, 530174 on this subject .

If posting date is in a closed period this date has to be changed. This is done by using report ZAFRUBUD.

Secondly, there is report ZCATSAFRC which transfers the post processing records for costs (table AFRC) to table AFRP3 that triggers the cost calculation process. In addition the program is able to set a new posting date into the confirmation record for records with closed posting periods. After running program ZCATSAFRC the report CORUPROC must be started.

Check

301574 - COFC: utility for reprocessing of actual costs

Regards

Tushar