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1512419 - Customer Invoice is not Posting Because of Error Message: 'Referenced item of Sales Order XYZ not found'

Symptom

You are trying to post a Customer Invoice and you are getting the following error message: 'Referenced item of Sales Order XYZ not found'.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to the Closing Cockpit view.
  3. Go to the Source Documents subview.
  4. Select the source document of your customer invoice DEF (DEF represents the customer invoice ID).
  5. You will see the task 'Referenced item of Sales Order XYZ (XYZ represents the sales order ID) not found'.

Now, you will check the Sales Order in question:

  1. Go to the Sales Order work center.
  2. Go to the Sales Order view.
  3. Show All Orders.
  4. Select your sales order XYZ.
  5. You will find that the sales order is having the status Completed.

Cause

Your sales order is not posted successfully in accounting. One more Business Transaction task exists for your sales order. You can see the task by doing the below steps:

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to the Closing Cockpit view.
  3. Go to the Source Documents subview.
  4. Select Unposted Source Documents.
  5. Select the source document of your sales order XYZ.
  6. Select the View Business Transaction button.

You will see the other Business Transaction task there. For example the task can be 'Period XXX in fiscal year YYYY is closed for closing step Operational postings'.

Resolution

You need to resolve the Business Transaction tasks first. Once this is done, you need to repost the source document of your sales order. After that repost the source document of your customer invoice.
Your customer invoice will be posted successfully in accounting.

Steps to repost the source document are below:

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to the Closing Cockpit view.
  3. Go to the Source Documents subview.
  4. Select Unposted Source Documents.
  5. Select the source document of your customer invoice DEF.
  6. Select the button Action -> View Business Transaction button.
  7. Select the Post button.

This will post your source document successfully in accounting.

Keywords

Customer Invoice; Referenced item of Sales Order XYZ not found; Source Document; Unpost Source Document; Sales Order , KBA , AP-SLO , Sales Order Processing , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions