How To Fix HRPADUN012 - Reduction date before Duty Station Entry date

HRPADUN012 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: HRPADUN - NPO messages

• Message number: 012

• Message text: Reduction date before Duty Station Entry date

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HRPADUN012 - Details

• The SAP error message HRPADUN012, which states "Reduction date before Duty Station Entry date," typically occurs in the context of personnel administration or payroll processing within the SAP Human Capital Management (HCM) module. This error indicates that there is a conflict between the reduction date (often related to a change in an employee's status, such as a reduction in salary or position) and the duty station entry date (the date when the employee was assigned to a specific duty station).
  
  Cause:
  
  Date Conflict: The reduction date you are trying to enter is earlier than the duty station entry date. This means that the system is trying to apply a change that cannot logically occur before the employee was assigned to their current duty station.
  Incorrect Data Entry: There may be a mistake in the dates entered in the employee's records, either in the reduction date or the duty station entry date.
  
  Configuration Issues: There