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2122978 - Cost Center From Employee Central Updates the Organizational Unit Field in Cloud for Travel.

Symptom

You are trying to replicate Employees from Employee Central to Cloud for Travel, the Cost center from Employee Central is updating the Organizational Unit field in Employee Replication Request.

You expect the Remote Org Unit ID field to be updated with Cost Center.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Master Data Replication Work center.
  2. Go to Import view and go to Employees sub view.
  3. Show All and Find Employee Replication Request XXX.
  4. Select the Employee Replication Request XXX and choose Edit.
  5. Go to Organizational Assignment tab.

You could see that the Cost center is updated in Organizational center ID field.

Cause

If you fetch the Employee data via Upload Data From Employee Central ,a compound service is called in Employee Central which returns the field Cost Center. This field  is filled with the Cost Center external code.
The field Cost Center external code of Employee Central should be filled with the Cost center ID you get from the ERP FIN system.
If you use the IDOC ODTF_CCTR or the CSV ODTF_REPL_CC_CSV you should get this unique number from your ERP FIN system. This number contains the Controlling Area ID and the Cost center ID
As the source system of this Organizational Unit ID (field  Remote System Instance ID) is unknown, the Organizational Unit ID field is expected to be filled.

Resolution

System works as designed.
Cost center from Employee Central updates the Organizational Unit field during Employee Replication.

Keywords

KBA , LOD-TEM-ICD , Travel Credit Card Integration , How To

Product

SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense 1411 ; SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense 1502 ; SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense 1505