Symptom
- Add Concurrent Employment for employee on the higher-level position of employee's existing position
- Receive Admin Alert regarding Manager Cycle Validation error on Position Follow-Up Activity Transferring Direct Reports
Environment
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Position Management
Reproducing the Issue
- Add Concurrent Employee for employee
- Enter position of Concurrent Employee as higher-level position of employee's current position
- Receive error in Admin Alerts regarding Manager Cycle Validation
Cause
- No Manager Cycle Validation occurs when creating Concurrent Employment as User ID of the Concurrent Employment is not finally created at this stage
- Transfer of Direct Reports occurs asynchronously and at this point, the Concurrent Employment User ID exists
- This triggers the Manager Cycle Validation in Admin Alerts
Resolution
- This behaviour is within current system design of the system currently
- SAP SuccessFactors Product Management and Engineering teams are reviewing the possibilities to enhance this functionality to prevent the Manager Cycle Validation error on Transferring Direct Reports process for this scenario
- Please review internal enhancement number ECT-249307 with your SAP Customer Success Manager for further updates on the progress of this enhancement.
Keywords
Manager Cycle Error, Concurrent Employment, Higher-Level Position, cannot be manager, same user, Transfer Direct Reports, Admin Alerts, ECT-249307 , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-CON , Concurrent Employment , Product Enhancement
Product
SAP SuccessFactors HCM Core all versions