How To Fix PE657 - Employee & ignored due to his/her different groupings

PE657 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: PE - Shift Planning: Messages

• Message number: 657

• Message text: Employee & ignored due to his/her different groupings

What causes this issue?

At least one of the groupings of the personal subareas for daily work
schedules or attendances / absences or substitution types /
availability types of employee &V1& differs from the personal subarea
groupings of shift group &V2&.

System Response

Due to the different groupings, employee &V1& is ignored in Shift
Planning.

How to fix this error?

In order to be able to edit all employees of an organizational unit or
structure in Shift Planning, they all have to have the same groupings
specified in shift &V2&.

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message PE657 - Employee & ignored due to his/her different groupings ?

  The SAP error message PE657 indicates that an employee has been ignored in a payroll run due to their different groupings. This typically occurs in the context of payroll processing when there are inconsistencies in the employee's grouping settings, which can affect how payroll calculations are performed.
  
  Cause:
  
  Different Groupings: The employee may belong to different groupings for various payroll components (e.g., wage types, payroll areas, or other classification criteria). This can happen if the employee has been assigned to multiple payroll areas or if there are inconsistencies in the employee's master data.
  Master Data Issues: There may be discrepancies in the employee's master data, such as incorrect or missing information in infotypes related to payroll, such as infotype 0001 (Organizational Assignment) or infotype 0008 (Basic Pay).
  
  Configuration Issues: The payroll configuration may not be set up correctly to handle employees with multiple groupings, leading to conflicts during payroll processing.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  Check Employee Master Data: Review