Help On PS-CATS Integration

[Former Member]

I have a client requirement on CATS - PS integration as below -

1. I am using work center in project activities and i have employees assigned to work center through HR.

I have assigned the concerned employees to the activities in PS. Now once the employee, who is assigned to the activity perform the work and go in time entry sheet in CATS in CAT2 T code -

A. Then in standard SAP, this person can see all the activities to which his work center is assigned But

I want the person/employee so see only activities to which he is assigned so that he can not book time

agaist the other activities or work performed.

I see that this is not the standard functinality and i have also gone through some of the threads in SDN, which says that we can use the user exit in CAT2 T code which will check for this validation during save of CAT2 T code,once emplyee enter the time.

But i want the employee to see his activity when he is entering into the CAT2 T code so that the additional efforts of entering the time can be saved.

Has anybody worked on this. request to share your experiance.

Thanks

[nitin_patoliya · Accepted solution]

I agree with Ahmed if you are only assigning person on activity tab and not in workcenter than he will be able to see the data for that activity in CAT2. If you have assigned the person to Workcenter in that case he will be able to see the data of all the activities where these workcenter is used.

Regards

Nitin P.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Ahmed and Nitin,

I have also checked into my system and if the person is not assigned to the work center in that case i am not able to aasign the person to activity.

Is there any setting at the back end to do this. But if i try with the work center to which the person is assigned then it is allowing me to assign this person for the activity.

Waiting for your reply please.

Thanks

[nitin_patoliya · Accepted solution]

If you have not assigned person to workcenter than also you can able to assign person to activity. For that you need to do Resource planning via CMP2 - Project View . In this way your problem can be solved.

Regards

Nitin P.

[former_member203108 · Accepted solution]

If u want to assign person who is not assigned to work center..do workforce planning as suggested by Nitin...but dont forget to tick the indicator "other personnel resources" in workforce planning profile...then only system will allow you to assign persons who is not assigned to workcenter or project team, otherwise it wont.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Nitin / Ahmed,

I will check it at my end and let you know.

One more thing i want to know from you is "What is the best industry practise" for person assgnment when the time is confirmed through CATS?

Thanks

[former_member203108 · Accepted solution]

Not sure but check L33.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I dont know what do u mean by L33.

Please help.

Thanks

[former_member203108 · Accepted solution]

U were asking for SAP best practice for CATS right...so i asked u to check L33...or is it my misunderstanding?

[nitin_patoliya · Accepted solution]

Normally it is based on requirement. There are resouce optimum utilization / over load/ underload realted report you can use very well, if you assign the person at workcenter level & control the same via workcneter capacity utilizations. What I have observed that when you are alwalys running short of resouce at that time it better to assign person at workcenter level for it's optimum utilization. If you your resouce requirement is mostly not going to be overloaded in that case you go for the person assignmnet at activity level.

Regards

Nitin P.

[former_member203108]

I just checked in IDES....I am able to see the activities only which is assigned to that particular person not all the activities in work center.

[Former Member]

hi

check for the authorization objects for transaction code and restrict the user