SAP Help By Kevin

In the past few years, SAP had spent many effort refining the Concurrent Employment / Management Global Employees of their. From modification on the portal side to ECC side, a solution are slowly rolling out for a lot major modules to support multiple PERNRs.

Going back to the basic, in the realms of Personnel Management, we know there is the possibility of using multiple PERNRs. With the MGE functionality activated, when a person goes on international assignment, he/she receives a new PERNR associated with that assignment. Each time an assignment occurs, a new PERNR is given for that assignment. To add to the mix, if the person become country re-assignment (permanent transfer) to a country, they also receive a new PERNR.

Over time, the amount of PERNRs being introduced for a person who goes on assignment a lot get a little out of hand. Recently SAP delivered to major OSS note to address this problem. You need to apply OSS 1363600 and configured your system according to OSS 1397959.

With these two OSS notes applied, you will now be able to "re-use" PERNR. The concept of having multiple pernrs is now limited to only one PERNR per country. You will still have multiple PERNR due to crossing MOLGA, but if the person return to the same country for another assignment, you can re-activate that withdrawn status PERNR.

Explore these two OSS notes and see if help improve your business process and share your thought in the process.

Just reposting the same document that I had offered to the public in the past. Moved it from my domain site to my blog site for easier access for some people. So far I can't believe there had been over 9,000 download on this!! Whoo Hoo!!

This was one of the first and at the time of written the only documentation on how to configure Enterprise Compensation Management. A bit out dated, but still applies to the configuration node today even in ECC 6.0 EHP 4.

This has been a debated discussion for awhile. When a person goes on international transfer (aka: country reassignment), will they get a new PERNR? The simple answer is yes! SAP has a internal hard check that does not allow the same pernr to be in multiple different countries.
With SAP version 4.7  extension II and above, SAP deliver a functionality called Management of Global Employees, a subset of Concurrent Employment functionality. This in itself introduces a whole new concept of tracking employees (see my help document of MGE on this website). With the concept of PERSON ID, it is a central ID now link to multiple PERNRs (also known as personnel assignments).
When a person goes on international transfer / country re-assignment, it is required by SAP for you to get a new personnel assignment number (PERNR). With that, in your configuration of personnel action, there is a check box flag to signify the action type is a country re-assignment.
When you flip this flag, only purpose it serves is when you run an action via PA40, it ask you to choose an action to put one record in withdrawn status and another to put in active status. In blunt put, terminate one and hire other.
When using this method, be prepare to have 3 personnel actions setup to handle this. One to be trigger via the PA40 and two to be trigger within PA40 transaction.
In short, when a person goes on international transfer, you will be required by SAP to introduce to him/her a new PERNR. You can still track them as one individual through the PA side using PERSON ID or through the OM side using the central person concept.
Now it comes back to the population question. Can I "NOT" have SAP force me to create a new PERNR when a person goes on international transfer / country re-assignment. The answer is also yes. You can refer to SAP OSS Note 116007 for further detail. However, if you focus on the last phrase from SAP, this is NOT the recommended option and SAP will NOT support you if a problem does occur.