Error - "Could not determine the cost center for employee".

[Monisha_Sivaram]

Hello SAP S/4HANA Cloud Community

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Question:

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

[Monisha_Sivaram · Accepted solution]

The error "Could not determine the cost center for employee" occurred while trying to staff a resource to the workpackage because the effort distributed for the role, falls outside the employment period of the employee.

For example,

Work Package duration : January 2021 to December 2021

Effort '1H 'distributed for the Work Package : January 2021

Employee's employment duration : June 2021 to December 2021

Please change the effort distributed within the employment period of the employee.

Please find the same information in the below KBA,

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3012283

[former_member132363]

Here are some SAP resources you may review based on your topic "employee | cost center | plan customer project | s/4hana cloud community | s4hana cloud | cloud community | app | customer project"

Customer Projects Migration - Part 1: Migration of Fixed Price ...

Sep 20, 2019 ... Notice: S/4HANA Cloud Community content and profiles will be moving to the SAP Community in February 2021. If you do not want your profile?...

https://blogs.sap.com/?p=567

Activity Types and Service Materials for Project Services

Aug 18, 2019 ... Within S/4HANA Cloud it is best practice that activity type and sales material ... The Service Cost Level can be maintained in the employee master data ... This feature is used whenever the app ?Release Billing Proposal? is called. ... For planning and posting costs for a project, the Activity Type is used to find?...

https://blogs.sap.com/?p=570

Customer Projects Migration - Part 2: Migration of Periodic Service ...

Sep 3, 2019 ... Notice: S/4HANA Cloud Community content and profiles will be moving to the SAP Community in February 2021. If you do not want your profile?...

https://blogs.sap.com/?p=568

[former_member132363]

Please refer to the KBA 2800936 https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2800936 to explain the behaviour

The Scope item 33Q is activated in the system ( https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/scopeitems/33Q )

You can first change the field Price Determination from 3 to 2 and press "Enter". Then the field Price Control is available to edit.

Best regards

Enda

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