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1974055 - You received the error "Item XX: Country missing in address of Employee ABC" when creating a Purchase Order

Symptom

You are creating a Purchase Order for a Non-Stock Material but the system is showing the error message "Item XX: Country missing in address of Employee ABC".

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Purchase Requests and Orders Work Center
  2. Go to Purchase Orders view
  3. Select the Purchase Order XYZ (XYZ represents the identification of the purchase order)
  4. Press Edit
  5. Press Check
  6. Receive the error message

Cause

You have selected the employee ABC as Recipient for the line item XX but no country was maintained as delivery address.

Resolution

You need to maintain a country for this recipient.

  1. Go to Purchase Requests and Orders Work Center
  2. Go to Purchase Orders view
  3. Select the Purchase Order XYZ (XYZ represents the identification of the purchase order)
  4. Press Edit
  5. Go to Items tab
  6. Select the line item XX
  7. Go to the Delivery sub-tab
  8. Enter a country for the field Country

Keywords

KBA , AP-PRP , Purchase Request Processing , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 1711