3741121 - Some position management settings will become no selection after configuration transport center job is run

The below two configuration becomes No Selection in target instance after configuration transport center job is run.

1. Event Reason for Assigning Employees to New Manage
2. Event Reason for Synchronizing Incumbents after Position Change

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

Source Environment Setup: 

1.Go to Position Management Settings and configure as such:

General Settings:

• Use Position Types: No
• Position External Code Generation by onSave rule: No

Hierarchy Adaptation:

• Event Reason for Assigning Employees to New Manager: eg. Annual Salary Review

Synchronization:

• Event Reason for Synchronizing Incumbents after Position Change: eg. Position Reclassification

2.Navigate to Configuration Transport Center → Transport Requests → Create transport request

Transportation Process:

• Export the configuration changes in the transport request
• Navigate to target environment

Target Environment Import:

• Go to Configuration Transport Center → Transport Requests → Imports
• Import the transport request
• Verify import shows as successful

Issue Verification:

1. Navigate to Position Management Settings in target environment
2. Check configuration values:

General Settings: (These transported correctly)

• Use Position Types: No 
• Position External Code Generation by onSave rule: No 

Hierarchy Adaptation: (Issue occurs here)

• Event Reason for Assigning Employees to New Manager: No selection 

Synchronization: (Issue occurs here)

• Event Reason for Synchronizing Incumbents after Position Change: No selection 

This is a Known Issue.

The fix for this issue is planned to be deployed in 2H 2026 release.

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PTCH-49606, configuration transport center partially failed, configuration not transported, position management settings failed to be transported, Event Reason for Assigning Employees to New Manage, Event Reason for Synchronizing Incumbents after Position Change, data not transported, no selection , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-POS , Position Management , Known Error