In CATS set up, for internal employees you can choose between 2 different controlling models:
- either the personnel costs (HR payroll) are attributed directly to the CATS receiver objects
- or the payroll is centralized on cost centers and from there reallocated to the CATS receiver objects with an activity type allocation (multiple variants of this theme exist)
For external resources, I have the impression that only the first model is allowed AND to obtain that, you also need to enter those CO receiving objects into the account assignment screen of the PO line item.
Yet I would like to implement the second model for external resources too. We have many external people supplementing the internal IT team and they work together as 1 team. So I want to have payroll and externals' invoice come together on 1 cost center and reallocate their time with an activity type (with a blended rate) towards the tasks & projects they work on (so the internal customer is not aware that part of the workforce is external).
However, if I set up such an external resource and let them write time in CAT2, I can transfer this to MM-SRV to create the service entry sheet (to match their invoice) but in CAT7 i get the message "nothing to transfer".
How can I make the system still do a CO reallocation for the hours of those external people ?