Symptom
The error message '"Transfer Failed" is occurring when trying to transfer an employee.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to Personnel Administration work center.
- Go to Employees view.
- Select the employee.
- Click Actions button and click Transfer Employee.
- Select the transfer date.
- Enter Organizational Unit and Job.
- Click Save.
- Error message "Transfer Failed" is displayed.
Cause
The issue could be caused because Replication has been descoped.
In a Replication scenario, the Administrative Category Code is not a field that is maintained and therefore, never gets sent into SAP Business ByDesign during a Replication Request. However, in standard Business ByDesign system with no replication, this is a Mandatory field during a Hire or Transfer scenario.
Resolution
It is necessary to manually maintain this Administrative Category for each affected Employee, since Replication has been descoped.
This can be done via Regular Tasks -> Change Administrative Category. The change date must be from the current/latest Work Agreement of the required Employee.
After that it should then be possible to Transfer the affected Employee(s).
Please note: There is no way to complete this process massively, each instance will need to be tackled manually using the above process.
Keywords
Transfer Failed, Replication, Transfer Employee , KBA , SRD-HR-PAD , Personnel Administration , How To