1986550 - Cannot Post Goods and Services Receipt Due to Unexpected error during backend processing

You cannot post a Goods and Services Receipt due to an exception screen: Unexpected error during backend processing. However when you press the button Check before posting the document, you have the information that it contains no errors.

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1. Go to the Goods and Services Receipts Work Center.
2. Navigate to the Purchase Orders to Be Delivered View.
3. Select the relevant purchase order and choose Goods and Services Receipt.
4. Choose Post.
5. You get an exception screen Unexpected error during backend processing.

The Business Partner ID for the Requester/Recipient has been changed after posting the purchase order. If you open the purchase order and press Check, you will get the warnings: Requester ABC not found; Recipient ABC not found.

As a immediate solution, you can select the correct User ID for the requester/recipient in the purchase order. Afterward choose Send Update. Note that it will trigger an output. To avoid that an email is sent out to the supplier, you can temporarily change the output settings for the form Changed Purchase Order.

1. Go to the Purchase Requests and Orders Work Center .
2. Navigate to the Purchase Orders View.
3. Select the relevant purchase order and choose Edit.
4. Go to the Items - Delivery Subtab.
5. Select the correct IDs for the fields Requester and Recipient.
6. In the top right, choose You Can Also -> Edit Output Settings for Change PO.
7. You can change the email address to yours then choose Apply.
8. Choose Send Update.

Afterward you can create a goods receipt for the purchase order.

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