SAP Note 28418 - Problems when maintaining sales personnel

Symptom:

Problems when creating, changing or displaying sales personnel.

Cause and prerequisites

Missing entries in HR Customizung tables, particular if you are using SD without HR.

Solution

1. Complete copy of the HR tables from the standard client

• Dialog control

• Infotypes: T582A, T582S, T591A, T591S

• Menus: T588A, T588B, T588C, T588D, T588T

• Screen Header: T588I, T588J

• Screen control: T588M

• Infotype Events

• Events: T529A, T529T, T529U

• Reasons for event: T530, T530T

• Infotype Personal Data

• Marital status and title: T502T, T516T, T522G, T522T

• Parts of name: T522N, T535N

• Release 2.2 only: T502, T516, T522

• Infotype Organizational allocation

• Employee groups: T501T, also, from 3.0: T501

• Employee subgroup: T503, T503T, also from 3.0: T503K

• Personnel area and subarea: T001P, also from 3.0: T500P

• Payroll area: T549A, T549T

• Organization key: T527, T527A, T527O

2. Selective copy of HR tables from the standard client

The following entries must be available in the client (you may have to maintain this with transactions SM30/31 or copy from client 000):

• Infotypes (Table T582A, from Release 3.0 View V_T582A):

Infotype Infotype/View

0000 Events I

0001 Org. Assignments I

0002 Personal Data I

0006 Addresses I

0105 Communication I

0900 Sales data I

• Infotype menus/Info groups (table T588c, as of 3.0 View T588c):

Menu type Menu User-dep. Reaction Ref. I L1 Sales Personnel _ _ 00
M L1 Sales Personnel _ _ 00

• Events

• Table T529A:

Event Pl PG PS IGN FCh .. Status

L1 Create Sales Representative X X X L1 1 __ _ 3 1 _ X

• Status ID

• Copy table T529U

• Reasons for event

• T530 Copy for event L1

• T530T Text for T530

• Transaction properties (Table T588A):

• Release 2.*:

Transaction code ITMEN MSMenu ActCat Data UIntf

PAL1 Create Sales Representative L1 P A L

PAL2 Display Sales Representative L1 A A L

PAL3 Maintain Sales Representative L1 P A L

• From Release 3.0:

Transaction code MenTyp Menu ActCat Data UIntf

PAL1 Create Sales Representative M L1 P A L

PAL2 Display Sales Representative I L1 A A L

PAL3 Maintain Sales Representative I L1 P A L

• Infotype menu (Table T588B, from 3.0 View V_T588B, maintan menu I/L1):

User gr. No Infotype

00 01 0000 Events

00 02 0002 Personal Data

00 03 0006 AAddresses

00 04 0001 Org. Assignments

00 05 0900 Sales Data

00 06 0105 Communication

• Event menu (Table T588B, from 3.0 View V_588B_M, Menu M/L1 ):

User gr. No Event

00 01 L1 Create Sales Representative

• Infogroups (Table T588D, Infogroup L1):

User grp. IGrModif No Operation Infotype Type

00 _ 01 INS 0001 Org. Assignment _

00 _ 02 INS 0002 Personal Data _

00 _ 03 INS 0006 Addresses _

00 _ 04 INS 0900 Sales data _

00 _ 05 INS 0105 Communication _

• Personnel area, Personnel subarea: Table T001P, T500P

In IMG:

- Definition of personnel subarea ==> Adjust text

- Enterprise structure --> Assignment --> Personnel Administration -->

Assignment: Personnel area --> Company code

==> Enter the correct company code

Warning: The country groupings in T001P and T500P must be the same

• Employee groups: Table T501, Text table T501T

Copy entry '1' (Active) (for each language)

• Employee groups/subgroups:

• Table T503K for Germany, copy employee subgroup DZ (Sales personnel) for USA employee subarea UZ, etc.

• Table T503 Copy entry 1 DZ (1 UZ, ...) (1 --> Active (according to T501), DZ/UZ --> Sales personnel)

• Warning: Country groups must match T500P

• Table T503T Text for T503K

• Marital status and title:

• Title T522G, Text T522T

• Marital status Text T502T

• Religion Text T516T

• Parts of name:

• Academic title, additional words T535N

• Country group dependent name formatting T522N

• Organizational key:

• T527, T527A, T527O Copy completely

• Payroll areas: T549A

T549T Text for T549A

• Select payroll area that is ot relevant (e.g. 99)

• Screen Header:

• T588I, T588I Copy completely

• Screen control:

• T588M, Entries: MP000200

MP000600

• Infosubtypes (T591A)

• Entries: 00061 (Infotype 0006)

00062

00063

01050001 (Infotype 0105)

01050002

01050003

01050004

01050005

01050006

01050011

• Table T591S Text table for T591A

• Actions to be carried out

• Transaction PE03

Menu --> Characteristic --> Generate

- Do not enter a characteristic

- it doesn't matter what is checked

- on the subsequent screen:

- Do not enter a characteristic

- Generation type: '1'

• Transaction PE03: Deactivation of position management

- Characteristic: PLOGI

- Decision tree: Change

- Set &PLOGI = ' '

- Generate

• Transaction SM31 (from 2.2F)

Table T588J

Button 'View maintenance'

---> Generate all headers

• Transaction SA38/SE38 (to 2.2E)

Execute report RPHGEN00

• Transaction PA04 (Set up number range for object RP_PREL)

- Interval: 01

Additional key words

PAL1, PAL2, PAL3, SAles personnel, Employee, Representative, Sales Support