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3012283 - Error - Could not determine the cost center for employee

Symptom

While trying to staff an employee to a workpackage in a customer project in "Plan Customer Project" app, the following error occurs "Could not determine the cost center for employee".

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to app plan customer project.
  2. Select and open the project.
  3. Go to teams tab.
  4. Add the role.
  5. Then add the resource to that role and save.

Cause

The effort distributted for the role, falls outside the employment period of the employee.

For example,

Workpackage duration :  January 2021 to December 2021

Effort '1H 'distributed for the Workpackage : January 2021

Employee's employement duration : June 2021 to December 2021

Resolution

Kindly change the effort distributed within the employement period of the employee.

Keywords

 CA-CPD-SS, S4_PC, SAP S/4HANA cloud, Plan Customer project, Teams, Efforts, Employment, Effort, Error, "Could not determine the cost center for employee". , KBA , CA-CPD-SS , S/4HANA Public Cloud – Professional Service Projects , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud all versions