Automatic Limiting of the Validity for Successor Assignments and Talent Assignments

The system uses this function to automatically delimit or delete successor assignments and talent assignments for employees (see Delimit) if one of the following situations arises:

An employee previously assigned to a position as a potential successor becomes the new holder of this position.
A talent's employment status changes from Active to Left Company, Inactive, or Pensioner.

Features

Standard Functions

The system delimits or deletes the following assignments:

Assignment	Relationship	Relationship Description	Related Object Types
Successor assignment to a position	740	Is Successor Of/Has Successor	CP (employee's central person) – S (position)
Talent assignment to a talent group	743	Has Talent For/Comprises Talent	CP (employee's central person) – TB (talent group)
Indication of a talent as potentially suitable for the jobs in a job family	744	Has Potential For/Is Potential Of	CP (employee's central person) – JF (job family)

The system delimits these relationships or deletes them if a personnel action results in one of the following changes for the employee concerned:
- An HR administrator specifies an employee that is assigned to a position as a successor as the new holder of this position.
  This means that in addition to the existing relationship Is Successor Of/Has Successor (740) between the employee's central person and the position, the system creates a Holder relationship (008) between the same position and one of the following objects:
  - Employee's central person (object type CP)
  - Personnel assignment assigned to this central person (object type P)
  - User assigned to this central person (object type US)
  - Business partner assigned to this central person (object type BP)
- An HR administrator changes an employee's employment status from Active (3) to Left Company (0), Inactive (1), or Pensioner (2).
  
  Note
  If the employee concerned is in concurrent employment, the employment status must be changed accordingly for all of his or her personnel assignments. As long as the employee still has a personnel assignment with the status Active, the system does not delimit or delete his or her successor assignments and talent assignments.
  
  End of the note.
Depending on the situation, the system decides whether assignments must be delimited or deleted.
For more information, see Decision on Delimiting or Deleting Successor Assignments and Talent Assignments.
The system creates a log in which it records all automatically delimited and deleted relationships and indicates them with a corresponding reason.
Example
Possible reasons are:
- Work relationship is inactive
- Employee is retired
- Employee has left the company
- Employee becomes the position holder
End of the example.
In the launchpad, the talent management specialist can display the log with the delimited and deleted relationships for the employees in his or her area of responsibility.
For more information, see Reports in Talent Management.

Optional Functions

You can change the employment status that causes the successor assignments and talent assignments to be delimited or deleted.
To do so, in Customizing for Talent Management and Talent Development, choose Basic Settings Automatic Validity Limitation for Successor and Talent Assignments Specify Triggering Status Change for Delimitation/Deletion of Assignments .
You can display inconsistent successor assignments and talent assignments that may exist in your system and clean them up.
To do so, use the report Clean-Up of Inconsistent Successor and Talent Assignments (RPTMC_ADJUST_TM_RELATIONS). For the report, see Customizing for Talent Management and Talent Development and choose Basic Settings Automatic Validity Limitation for Successor and Talent Assignments Retroactively Delimit or Delete Existing Assignments .