Error determining address for employee when replicating

Question

Hi,
We are in SRM 5.0, classic scenario.
We are using HR replication .
I replicate the Org structure and the user from an HR system via ALE.
Apparently all works fine (in PPOMA_BBP I see the Position, the CP, the BP, and the user links US) (similar to a user previously manually created)
However I can not shop with it as I receive messages
-No data found for contact person HR08007850 Contact system administrator
-No addres found for Partner function type Good Recipient
-No addres found for Partner function type Requester
In Users Gen if I make a Check User and Employee data, selecting by BP (Employee role) for the Business Partner BP of the Central Person of the user I receive error messages
Error determining address for employee .........
The BP for all objects(Contact person,employee etc) have all the relevant address data .
Entries can be seen in tables BUT020,BUT050 for the addresses.
Also we had not created the SU01 users before replicating the Org structure but created thenm after the replication .Then for integrating the users into the Org structure,we jsut assigned the users to the CP's in PPOMA_BBP itself(as USERS_GEN is deactivated for HR-ALE replication).After this,we were able to see the CP-US relationship but when we do the consistency check,we get the above mentioned errors i.e.
Error determining address for employee......
Employee relationship between BP.... and BP(org) missing
Has anyone faced a similar situation??Any inputs will be appreciated.
regards,
Edited by: Antoinette Stork on Jul 1, 2008 11:23 AM

Answer 1

Hi,
Please read my earlier replies properly.The error you are getting is mainly because of the addresses of the ORG UNITS and not employees not being maintained on the R/3 side.
The addresses of the org units are stored in infotype1028 on R/3 side.So you need to maintain this one on the R/3 side before starting the replication.Take the help of someone from the HR team for maintainence of this address data.
Regarding the switches in SRM,there is one in table  T77S0 i.e. HRALX OADRE Address Necessary for Business Partner?.However this is used for generation of BP for the org units which i suppose is happening for you..See the foll note for more deatils .
Note 550055 - EBP/CRM: New integration for business partner
For this paarmeter,the note says;
Addresses: If addresses are required to generate correct business
partners of the organizational unit role (in SRM, for example), the
HRALX/OADRE switch is set to X (formerly: the BUPA/ADDR switch). If
it is mandatory for each business partner of the organizational
unit role to have an address, but the relevant organizational units
do not always have a separate address, you can define a standard
address. Create a separate business partner for storing the
standard address. The number of this business partner, which is
used as a container, is stored in the HRALX/OADBP switch (formerly
BUPA/ADRBP).
However the address error which you are getting is because the employee for the Org unit which gets created doesnt get the address because of the missing address of the org structure.So the BP of the employee (for org unit) is inconsistent.
So i dont think changing the value of this switch would help you resolve the EMPLOYEE ADDRESS error.Again i suggest better to maintain the addresses of the org units in R/3 in infotype 1028 and then replicate the whole org structure again.Then you should not get the address error.
BR,
Disha.
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