SAP PM - Cross Application Time Sheet

Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS) component is a tool used for recording time and tasks in Plant Maintenance. Employees can record their own data and hence ease the administration workload.

CATS is a cross-application component and you must implement at least one of the components as mentioned in the following table. You can supply data to the components individually, or in combination.

Required Function	Required Component or Solution
Decentralized recording of employee attendances and absences	Time Management (PT)
Decentralized recording of employee remuneration information	Payroll (PY)
Internal activity allocation and entry of statistical key figures	Controlling (CO)
Confirmations	Plant Maintenance (PM) Project System (PS) Customer Service (CS)
Recording external services	External Services Management (PT-IN-ES)
Recording travel expenses with activity reports	Travel Management (FI-TV)

Approval Procedure

To perform timesheet approval of released time and to raise notifications for rejected time, you can use SAP Business workflows.

Navigate to Cross-Application Components → Time Sheet → Settings for All User Interfaces → Time Recording → Determine Variant of Approval Report for Workflow

When you do not want to approve the data, you can enter a rejection reason for the employee or other person who has entered the data.

A rejection reason can be defined under Cross-Application Components → Time Sheet → Settings for All User Interfaces → Time Recording → Define Rejection Reasons