1781085 - System Throws Error Messages Related to Business Residence, Reporting Line Unit and Cost Center when Assigning an Employee to an Org Unit

You are trying to assign employees to an org. unit or activate org. units with employees assigned to it, but the below error messages or similar ones are being raised:

DD.MM.YYYYY to DD1.MM1.YYYY1: employee(s) on org. unit XYZ must be below a business residence. It is also possible to flag the org. unit to which the employee is assigned as a business residence.

DD.MM.YYYYY to DD1.MM1.YYYY1: employee(s) on org. unit XYZ must be below a reporting line unit. It is also possible to flag the org. unit to which the employee is assigned as a reporting line unit.

DD.MM.YYYYY to DD1.MM1.YYYY1: employee(s) on org. unit XYZ must be below a cost center. It is also possible to flag the org. unit to which the employee is assigned as a cost center.

(Where XYZ stands for the relevant org. unit's ID and DD.MM.YYYY/DD1.MM1.YYYY1 stand for two different dates)

SAP Business ByDesign

1. Go to Organizational Management work center.
2. Click Edit Org. Structures.
3. Check or activate the relevant org. structure.

The reason for the error message is that an org. unit with employees assigned to it must meet all the requirements mentioned in the error messages.

To resolve the issue:

• You can remove the employees (or service agents) assigned to the org. unit and assigned them to any other org. unit which meets the required conditions. To do this, you can go to the respective org. unit, access the Employees tab and delete the employees.
• If the intention is to have employees in the relevant org. unit, please ensure that either this org. unit or the org. units above it in the org. structure have all the functions mentioned in the error messages assigned to them.

Employee(s) on org. unit XYZ must be below, Business Resident, Cost Center, Reporting Line Unit, Org structure, Activate, Check , KBA , SRD-MD-OM , Organizational Management , Product Enhancement