CATS to updat actual cost to cost activity

[varun_viswambharan]

Hi,

updating employees in CATS with WBS will produce actual cost in WBS, however the CATS with network and activity is not producing actual cost in activity rather it is only producing confirmation. Is there anyway I can use CATS to update actual cost to cost activity without having confirmation?

Thanks

[varun_viswambharan · Accepted solution]

Hi All,

Thanks for you supports. Finally an information from sap.help put light on this issue. what it says that if you change the confirmation parameter of activity control key to confirmation not possible, then running CAT7 will post cost to CO without having activity confirmed.

Thank you

John

[varun_viswambharan]

Hi Experts,

Let us take the process the actual cost is posted on wbs element, we update employee number, activity type, receiving wbs and total hours of productive work in time sheet. upon running CAT7 system calculate the amount and post to wbs. Our requirement is the same way the wbs element acted as receiving cost object, we want general cost activity in that place (remember it is not internal activity). We updated the network and activity number as receiving cost object, but CAT7 is giving no data for transferring. Trying with CAT5 is only updating confirmation, no actual cost is booked in general cost activity.

Thank you all.

[sunil_yadav2]

Hi John,

General cost activity is used to book costs which include travel expenses, insurance premiums, consultancy fees, and royalties.

SAP Standard settings are above. Control key where Gen. Costs Act, is active than this can not be used for timesheet postings.

thanks

Sunil

[varun_viswambharan]

Hi Sunil,

Correct, general cost activity is designed for that purpose only. But if you see in a broader way general cost activity is a cost collector where we can post direct cost, can do activity allocation,and material cost booking using goods issue. If it is a cost collector why we can't use this in CAT7 same like cost is transferred to WBS.

Thanks

[MTerence]

Hi John,

Did you tried to run in CAT5 ?

I guess you cannot post to controlling, if you want to post to WBS element, run CAT5 and check

Regards

Terence

[varun_viswambharan]

Hi Maria,

I tried CAT5 which is making only confirmation in cost activity. I found another way of allocating manpower cost to cost activity, direct activity allocation (KB21) which is again manual process one has to compile the data and post to cost activity.

Process wise this is same as CAT7 the only difference is this will post cost to WBS and KB21 can be used to post cost to network cost activity.

Thank you all for your support, looking for some solid solution. The ultimate objective of whole exercise is to bring actual cost to cost activity and find remaining cost to complete.

[Paulo_Vitoriano]

Hi John,

Can you please check the error pool of accounting documents in COFC?

With CAT5 you should get the same result as with KB21.

Regards,

Paulo

[varun_viswambharan]

Hi Paulo,

"No error record was found for selection" is the message when COFC was executed. Can we run CAT7 for transferring to general cost activity? with existing configuration running CAT7 says "no data for transferring"

Thank you

[Paulo_Vitoriano]

Hi John,

I do not think that your problem is around transfer program, CAT5 does both confirmation and CO document, so CAT7 is kind of included with CAT5.

1. Would you mind showing your sample CAT2 screen with fields you populate?

2. Have you got the desired result with KB21?  If not what are your settings for the Control key, the one that Sunil was showing above?

Thanks,

Paulo

[varun_viswambharan]

Hi Paulo,

confirmation is happening with CAT5, but no actual cost is posted.

1. Would you mind showing your sample CAT2 screen with fields you populate?

2. Have you got the desired result with KB21?  If not what are your settings for the Control key, the one that Sunil was showing above?

KB21 is giving desired output. but we didn't recommend this as it required a lot of man hours to complete this exercise.  Presently we are doing CAT7 which is updating cost to WBS, but the drawback is you can not find remaining cost to complete in cost forecast.

Thank you

[Paulo_Vitoriano]

Hi John,

Do you have integrated Payroll and also transferring data from CATS to HR component?

Please test using a different Cost Accounting scenario, on Data Entry Profile config that is called Cost Accounting variant.

The problem might be that your scenario assumes data transfer to HR, but you don't do it with CAT5 and CAT7.

Thank you,

Paulo

[varun_viswambharan]

Hi Paulo,

we have CAT integrated payroll, and data is transferred to HR using CAT6 transaction. I tried different cost accounting scenario like transferring cost to cost center and WBS which are successful. Data transfer to HR is independent of data transfer to other targets like PS, CO, and PM/CS. This scenario is tested with WBS cost transferring.

Thank you

John

[sunil_yadav2]

Hi John,

please check below settings:

TCODE-OPST (Confirmation Parameters)

check if system has setting related to HR Update in combination to Plant and network type.

If you set the indicator, no data is transferred.

thanks

Sunil

[varun_viswambharan]

Hi Sunil,

We don't face any issue in transferring data to HR, it is working perfectly alright. Our requirement is the cost from CAT2 to be transferred to gen cost activity of the project without any having it confirmed.

Thank you

John

[sunil_yadav2]

Hi John,

cost will update when you confirm activity with workcenter (having cost center) and activity type.

in addition to this you need to maintain price per hour in KP26 in combination to cost center and activity type.

thanks

Sunil

[MTerence]

Hi John,

What is your exact requirement, are you trying to use CATS for posting labour hours.

I dont think you can post without confirmation. You need to make sure activity type / cost centre is mapped with cost. During time confirmation the actual cost will be posted.

Regards

Terence

[kenmelching]

The confirmation should also be posting actual costs to NWA through the actual work quantity.