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2644245 - Wrong Country in Expense Report

Symptom

You do not want to start a trip in the Country ABC (ABC is the Country/region), however system is always suggesting it as a Start and End Destination, and you cannot change the same.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Travel and Expenses Work Center.
  2. Select the subview Expense Report.
  3. Click New.
  4. Create and Expense Report.
  5. Insert the required information.
  6. You can see that the system is suggesting the Home Country as ABC.
  7. Change the Home Country to any other one which you choose.
  8. Click Add more destinations.
  9. You still can see that for the First Destination system is suggesting the Country ABC.
  10. The Destination Type End of the Trip is showing the Country ABC as well.

Cause

System is suggesting the Home Country ABC, because this is the Cost Center country/region which employee is assigned.

You can check this as follows:

  1. Go to the Personnel Administration work center.
  2. Go to the Employees view.
  3. Click your profile picture.
  4. Click Start Personalization Mode.
  5. Click Ok.
  6. Click arrow icon for Employees.
  7. Check box for Country/Region.
  8. Click Save.
  9. Find Employee DEF.

You can see that the country/region is ABC.

Resolution

In order to solve this issue, you need to terminate the Current Employment for country ABC in thePersonnel Administration work center and perform a Rehire for the correct Country.

See Also

Quick Guide for Regular Tasks (in Personnel Administration)

Keywords

Expense Report, home country, create new expense report, start trip, end trip , KBA , wrong home country , expense report , cost center , company , AP-ERM-ER , Expense Report , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions