How To Fix VO731 - No shift maintained in either day 1 or day 2 of shift program

VO731 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: VO - W&S: Rough workload forecast + picking wave

• Message number: 731

• Message text: No shift maintained in either day 1 or day 2 of shift program

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message VO731 - No shift maintained in either day 1 or day 2 of shift program ?

  The SAP error message VO731: "No shift maintained in either day 1 or day 2 of shift program" typically occurs in the context of Personnel Time Management or Shift Planning when the system cannot find a valid shift assigned for the specified days in a shift program.
  
  
  Cause:
  
  The shift program (also called shift sequence or shift pattern) assigned to an employee or a work schedule does not have any shifts maintained (defined) for either the first day (day 1) or the second day (day 2).
  This means that when the system tries to determine the shift for a particular day based on the shift program, it finds no shift entries for those days.
  This can happen if:
  The shift program is incomplete or incorrectly maintained.
  The shift program is assigned but the underlying shifts for the days in question are missing.
  The shift program is newly created but not fully configured.
  There is a mismatch between the