Assignment Activation 

Purpose

Once you have been through all preliminary steps, the begin date of the assignment draws nearer and the employee has accepted the offer, you activate the new personnel assignment stored during the selection phase.

Prerequisites

You must have been through all the preliminary steps described in Planning phase and Relocation Phase. Moreover, the assignee must have accepted the offer.

Process Flow

You can activate an assignment by means of the following personnel actions:

       1.      Host Activation (82)

·        A Host record is created provided that the status of the record on infotype Global Assignment Details (0715) has been set to To be activated. The status is eventually set to In Progress.

·        A Home record is created with the status set to To be activated.

       2.      Expatriation (83)

·        Activate the assignment by means of the personnel action Expatriation (83).

·        Any further status changes are fully customizable.

Result

At this stage, the global employee joins the local payroll and starts his or her new assignment in the host country.