SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2661796 - How to Delete Employees

Symptom

You are trying to delete an existing employee, but cannot locate this functionality.

Environment

SAP Cloud for Customer

Cause

Employee records are part of what the system considers master data. Once created, this sort of data cannot be deleted, as it could lead to inconsistencies.

Resolution

As an alternative, you can change the employee's validity date accordingly: an employee that is no longer valid will no longer be considered by the system in the future, not being in shown in standard queries or for selection in the value help of business documents. If required, the Data Workbench tools supports mass updates of employee data.

Additionally, you can use the Data Protection and Privacy work center tools if you would like to anonymize employee data. Please check the "See Also" section for more resources.

See Also

KBA: 2185206 - Unable to Delete Master Data or Transactional Data

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Keywords

Employee, Delete , KBA , LOD-CRM-EMP , Employee , Problem

Product

SAP Cloud for Customer add-ins all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer core applications all versions