A look at the SAP MTS Functionality
SAP MTS enables employees in an organization
to record their working times on
laptops, anywhere at any time. A network
connection is not required for time
recording. This option primarily benefits
employees who must travel frequently and
don’t always have a connection to their
corporate network.
Users can employ an intuitive, simple UI
that looks and behaves like an ESS UI to
record their working times. After they
record and save their time entries in SAP
MTS, they can then transfer them to their
SAP system when they have access to a network connection.
Users can update the recorded working
times with their SAP system when they
have a network connection - also known
as synchronization - at home or in the
office. As soon as these working times are
transferred to the back end, the records are
processed in the same way as any other
records entered using any other time sheet
UI. SAP MTS replicates the same business
logic as SAP CATS; therefore, most
checks and validations are performed
when working offline.
The user’s CATS profile is sent to the
mobile client with the initial synchronization,
thus ensuring that the customizing
settings (such as the employee profile,
field selection, clock times, and release of
time entries), are available offline.
SAP MTS offers the following
functionalities:
- The ability to change or delete data records that were either entered either online or offline
- Users can trigger synchronization
- Automatic transfer of changes in customizing and master data in the back end to SAP MTS
- An F4 Help is available to select working time attributes. Users can also manually enter new time attributes if they are not yet available through the F4 help.
- Detailed views of time entries are accessible for all data records
- You can release time entries by either selecting individual entries or all time entries at once
- Cut, copy, and paste functionality is available for all data records
- Capability to download and use more than one field selection in SAP MTS, assuming you already configured them in the back-end customizing
- Group entry is possible so that an administrator can enter time for other employees
- The data entry period is customizable and users can define the start and end dates
- The option to sort a time sheet based on any working time attributes
- Template functionality supports old templates and users can create or delete templates
- If you need to book a cost object to a project rather than a cost center, you can integrate SAP MTS with cProjects
- SAP MTS uses the Mobile Composite Application Framework (mCAF) enhancement concept to easily integrate customer-specific enhancements.