Symptom
You are creating new purchase order for Stock / Non-Stock items and it is necessary for you to maintain the multiple decimal places on product pricing as per the industry standards. Hence this leads to incorrect totals on your purchase orders.
For Example: This applies to price calculations between Quantity & Price. For high volume, low cost items, sometimes it's necessary to calculate the net value as multiple fractions. i. e Quantity 1000 * Price 0.0375 USD = 37.5 USD.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to the Purchase Requests and Orders work center.
- Go to the Common Tasks section and select New Purchase Order.
- Fill the necessary details and pricing information's.
- Under the pricing information's put three decimal value digit. E. X: 0.0375 USD.
- System will round off the decimal places to two digits.
Cause
This restriction of the decimal places comes from ISO 4217 which is standard for the rounding and available decimal for each currency.
Resolution
The feature described will be available in a future release of SAP Business ByDesign. Until then you will have to maintain a price for a price unit of 10 each or 100 each in a list price or purchasing contract.
Alternatively you can create a quantity conversion on the product master with a unit of measure that corresponds to 10 each or 100 each. Then use this UoM on the purchase order.
for example:
If you had a Product that you wanted to price at $12.3456 per 1 each, you would set it up as $1234.56 per 100 each
This ends up calculating to an equivalent value, but allows entry of more detailed decimals places without encountering maximum decimal places limits.
Alternatively you may check the Customer Influence Forum to submit an idea: https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/886
See Also
1657940 - Not More than 2 Decimals Are Allowed
Keywords
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