How To Fix HRBEN00CEWB008 - Payroll area & differs from payroll area & of assignment &

HRBEN00CEWB008 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: HRBEN00CEWB - Messages for Reports in Benefits Conc. Employment

• Message number: 008

• Message text: Payroll area & differs from payroll area & of assignment &

What causes this issue?

Payroll area &V1& differs from payroll area &V2&; the latter payroll
area is associated with personnel assignment &V3&.

System Response

Because these payroll areas differ, the action that you attempted to
process cannot be performed.

How to fix this error?

Review the association of payroll areas in your system with personnel
assignments, then resolve any errors that may be present. To this end,
you can execute the Concurrent Employment Benefits Workbench (via
transaction <ZH>HRBEN00CEWB</>), then perform any necessary
modifications - provided that Concurrent Employment is active in your
system.

Procedure for System Administrators

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

HRBEN00CEWB008 - Details

• The SAP error message HRBEN00CEWB008 typically occurs in the context of payroll processing in the Human Resources (HR) module, specifically when there is a mismatch between the payroll area of an employee's assignment and the payroll area defined for a specific action or process.
  
  Cause:
  The error message indicates that there is a discrepancy between the payroll area assigned to the employee and the payroll area expected for the action being processed. This can happen due to several reasons, including:
  
  Incorrect Employee Assignment: The employee may be assigned to a different payroll area than what is required for the current payroll processing.
  
  Configuration Issues: There may be configuration issues in the payroll settings that do not align with the employee's assignment.
  Data Entry Errors: Manual data entry errors during employee master data maintenance can lead to mismatched payroll areas.
  Organizational Changes: Changes in the organizational structure or payroll area assignments that have not been updated in