Symptom
Organizational units display the icon: "Deviating Business Residence Assignment."
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to Organizational Management work center.
- Edit Org Structures.
- Click Edit to go to Planning Area.
- Highlight the affected Org Unit.
- Observe deviating business residence icon under business residence.
Cause
This icon that is displayed is "deviating Business residence assignment” which is explained in the Help Center document: Deviating Business Residence Assignments
Where you assign an org unit to a business residence that is not directly inherited, the assignment is known as a deviating business residence assignment, because you define a deviation between the standard and legal hierarchy.
Resolution
To remove this icon from the org unit follow the below points:
- Avoid maintaining values manually in the business residence field.
- Allow the system to automatically fetch the required values.
- If any value already exists in the Business Residence field:
- Remove the value.
- Save the changes. The related icon will disappear after saving.
- After saving, activate the changes in the Organizational Structure.
See Also
Keywords
deviating business residence, error message, organizational structure, business residence field, error icon, planning area , KBA , SRD-MD-OM , Organizational Management , AP-OM , Organisational Management , How To
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