CATS Postings to CO

Hello,
I need some guidance here. We are using CATS to record time against a WBS Element and we are maintaining a mini master for CATS. We are a having a problem. We are allowing users to record time for future and doing CATS Postings.
For Example:
Employee 31435 is from cost center A. We record time for the whole month October. Do CATS Postings to update the projects. Now if we change cost center of the employee (Actions) to B effective Oct 15th.
How can we Update the Projects with the new Cost Centers for the dates which are already Posted. Though I tried re-run CATS Postings, It says "no data found".
Please advice me if there is a way the system automatically adjusts the postings.
Please advice.
Mike

Hello Sarita,
Even after deleting the old records. Re-posted the CO document. Now recorded the hours (during the new cost center period) and posted the document. It still pulls the old cost center. I Checked both info-type 0001 and 0315. both have the new cost center records.
Any thoughts
Mike

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I maybe beed to send this to SAP OSS but trying this option first.
To me this is puzzling. Find very few references which normally means few have encountered this. Strange. CATS BAPI interfacing must be used by a lot of companies.
BR, Johan
Edited by: Rob Burbank on Nov 7, 2011 2:36 PM

Hi Johan,
These kind of problems arise when there is a very little time gap between two successive postings. So put a 'WAIT UP TO 2 SECONDS' between each of the postings. This will give time for the previous posting to perform the updates even before the next posting hits the same transaction. This will solve your problem.

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