Assign Positions to Employees

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

I would like to know how i can assign the same position to several employees (for example in my company I have 80 Salesmen, and I don't think or believe that I should create 80 positions in Organizational Management, one for each Salesman)

I tried to assign a position to 2 employees in OM, but the system requires that each of them should have a fraction of the 100% , which means that one of the 2 employees should work 40% and the other 60% !!!

would you please help me with that, im totally unconvinced that a separate position should be created for each individual employee in a large enterprise with 10000 employees for example !!!

Thanks in advance

Best Regards

[Former Member]

Dears,

Thank you all for your answers, I really appreciate them

and now I can see why a separate position is needed for each employee, i just thought it would be easier to have only one position as long as no differences exist between the 80 positions. (and yes I know that i can copy them in one step)

Thanks again to all of you

[Former Member]

Rovanna,

You can Asign more than one employee for one position. even with out changing the Percentage.

But as best practice says it is fair to create one position for one fulltime employee as recommended.

The solution for the query do settings as below in mentioned path u can solve.

Maintain/Change the time constraint as 3 (three) instead of 2 (two) in the below path

IMG ->Personnel Management ->Organization Management ->Basic settings ->Data model enhancement ->info type Maintenance->Maintain Subtypes

In this path

Select the relationship A008 Holder and change the Time constraint for object Position (S) Mark as 3(Two)

Hope you got idea

Regards

rajeshk

Edited by: Rajesh Kota on Aug 5, 2010 10:29 PM

[shailvora]

Hi..

I have maintained the entries in Table T77VA for A008 and B008 relationship as E. However system does NOT give any error message when I hire Person on position which is already occupied.

Time Constraint for A008 and B008 is 3. I have even tried changing them to 2. Yet it does not work.

Can you please suggest possible reasons ?

Rgds

[Former Member]

Hi,

I definitely agree with my friends' suggestions.

As per SAP best practice, you need to create separate position for each employee.

Think of the positions as seats employees sit; then it will make more sense why you need separate position for each person

If you insist on assigning more than one person to a single position, you need to turn off 100% check for position assignment as follows:

SPRO : Personnel mngmt - Organizational man - Basic settings - Data model enhancement - Relationship maintenance - Maint rel.ships:

Select 008 relationship and on the left double click Relationship characteristics.

Change 100% check other than E (error).

Regards,

Dilek

[former_member106311]

The basic starting point should be one position per employee unless the position is truly a job share. You can turn off the 'percentage' check, but if you do this then there is a lot of functionality you won't be able to use, as many modules rely on there being a position for every employee.

Creating 80 positions is actually very easy, as you can use the 'copy' function to create all 80 at the same time based on a template position.

[Former Member]

Yes Rovanna

a position cannot be shared between 100 or 1000 employees. At the max between 2-3 employees with the total percentage adding up to not more than 100 %.

Its ideal that each employee has a unique position so that it can be helpful in reporting as well.

In ur case you will have to create 80 position but with the same job code.

Use ppom and you can create 80 positions with same job code at once.

cheers

AJ