How to activate CE?

At the time of writing this post, SAP has CE solution only for USA & Canada. SAP recommends that the organization has to contact them before turning CE on the system.

CE has to be activated from the SAP IMG. (TCode: SPRO).
Personnel Management -> Personal Administration -> Basic settings -> Basic Settings for CE.


When you click on 'Activate Concurrent Employment', you will be taken to the next screen where the switch CCURE -MAINS has to be set to 'X'. Here the payroll start date can also be set using the switch CCURE-PAYUS or PAYCA or PAY99.

The next setting is to activate authorization to change own data for CE. The switch is not activated by default.
Example provided in the IMG for this is as follows:

An employee is a salaried employee in organization unit A with the personnel assignment 1. At the same time, this employee has another personnel assignment 2 as a personnel administrator. Via structural authorizations, the employee with personnel assignment 2 can edit salary data for the organizational unit A. The employee cannot change his or her own salary data for the personnel assignment 2.

If you do not activate the CCURE CPAUT switch, this employee can still edit his or her own salary data for personnel assignment 1 as this personnel assignment belongs to the same organizational unit and the employee's structural authorizations are valid here. If the switch is not active, the system does not know that the personnel assignment 1 belongs to this employee and that he or she is not really allowed to change the salary data.

If you activate the switch, the employee cannot change his or her own salary data for personnel assignment 1 either, as the authorizations for changing personal data have priority over the structural authorizations.

The next option: BAdI: Determine All Personnel Assignments of a User
This BAdI is used to specify which of a user's personnel assignments are to be processed together when a self-service is called (for example, Employee Self-Service). This is activated by default in the system.


Next configuration is for the Personnel Assignment Groupings.

In this part of the IMG, you check the Customizing settings for personnel assignment groupings and change them if necessary. These Customizing settings determine whether the system, depending on the processing type, processes the personnel assignments of a concurrently employed person together or separately.

The grouping of personnel assignments is based on the following principles:

• Grouping Reason for Personnel Assignments

The grouping reason determines the business aspect for which the system carries out a certain grouping.

• Grouping Rule for Personnel Assignments

The system uses a grouping rule to assign a grouping value to each personnel assignment of a concurrently employed person.

• Grouping Value for Personnel Assignments

On the basis of the grouping value, the system decides whether it must process personnel assignments together or separately. Personnel assignments that have been assigned the same grouping value are processed together.

Grouping rules are assigned to grouping reasons. The same grouping rule can be used for several grouping reasons.

A grouping reason can also be assigned several grouping rules. Only one of these grouping rules is valid for a given time. Therefore, the system checks the existing assignments in a defined sequence and each time uses the one with the highest priority.