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1925318 - Error Appears While Posting Supplier Invoice

Symptom

You are trying to post a Supplier Invoice and the below error message appears:

'Cannot find goods or service receipt ABC for Purchase Order XYZ, item XYZ-1 in accounting.' (where ABC stands for the Goods and Service Receipt ID, XYZ for the Purchase Order and XYZ-1 for the Item on this Purchase Order)

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Supplier Invoice work center
  2. Go to the Invoices and Credit Memos view
  3. Select the relevant Supplier Invoice
  4. Select the Check button

The error message 'Cannot find goods or service receipt ABC for Purchase Order XYZ, item XYZ-1 in accounting.' is raised.

 

Cause

The relevant Warehouse Confirmation did not get posted to accounting yet due to the error message 'No functional area could be assigned. Derivation for accounting principle XXX, chart of accounts YYY, G/L account ZZZ, Non sales object.' (where XXX stands for the Accounting Principle ID, YYY for the impacted Chart of Account and ZZZ for the relevant G/L Account)

Resolution

You need to maintain the relevant functional area for the present G/L Accounts. Follow the below steps to derive the functional area automatically for future postings:

  1. Go to the Business Configuration work center
  2. Go to the Fine Tuning activity
  3. Select the activity Settings for Income Statements by Functions of Expense and Earned Profit Analysis
  4. Select Edit the function area determination link
  5. Select the Accounting Principle
  6. In the Determination Using General Ledger Accounts tab, assign the Functional Area AAA to a G/L Account (where AA stands for the Functional Area ID)
  7. Maintain the relevant functional area for the Accounting Principles
  8. Select Save and close
  9. Now go to the General Ledger work center
  10. Navigate to the Source Document subview
  11. show the Unposted Source Documents
  12. Select the relevant Supplier Invoices and complete the Postings

Keywords

KBA , LOD-CRM , Cloud for Customer , How To

Product

SAP BUSINESS BYDESIGN 1708 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1711 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1802