CAT2 Time Reporting - Multiple Plants under 1 company code

[former_member990989]

We have 2 plant #s under 1 company code and currently for Time Writing against Plant Maintenance orders, we have to set up 2 separate personnel numbers for each maintenance employee so they can charge time to the 2 different plants.

Is there a way that we can have only 1 personnel number set up for each employee that will allow them to charge time against orders for both plants?

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[Paulo_Vitoriano]

Hi Clint,

There should be no issue to use the same HR record for multiple plants within same Company code in CATS process.

What does exactly prevent you from doing so? Please show the error number/message class.

Regards,

Paulo

[former_member990989]

The employee HR Record has a field for the plant number. This field has always been populated. If populated with "1234" the employee could only record time against orders which are linked to plant "1234". For orders linked to plant "5678" a separate HR record had to be set up for each employee so they could record time against those orders linked to that different plant.

We tested leaving the plant field on the employee HR Record blank since it is not a required field hoping that would allow time reporting against any order, however, it would then not allow time writing against any orders - it would give an error saying the order was from a different plant.

[Paulo_Vitoriano]

Hi Clint, no need for copy-paste as I can read the same comment you did already. That error is likely to be a custom logic implemented in your implementation project, that is why I have asked to show the message class and number for the error itself. This is not a standard SAP behavior, so you would need to understand first why that kind of design decision has been taken previously.

[MTerence]

Hi,

What error are you getting when entering the time sheet for another plant.

Is the personal record has plant ?

Regards

Terence

[former_member990989]

The employee HR Record has a field for the plant number. This field has always been populated. If populated with "1234" the employee could only record time against orders which are linked to plant "1234". For orders linked to plant "5678" a separate HR record had to be set up for each employee so they could record time against those orders linked to that different plant.

We tested leaving the plant field on the employee HR Record blank since it is not a required field hoping that would allow time reporting against any order, however, it would then not allow time writing against any orders - it would give an error saying the order was from a different plant.