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2018657 - Procurement Arrangement Blocked for Seller

Symptom

An error occurs 'Procurement arrangement blocked for seller XYZ' while selecting supplier XYZ during creating a purchase order.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Purchase Requests and Orders Work Center.
  2. Select the common task New Purchase Order.
  3. Enter the supplier XYZ, then the error would occur

Cause

This error message is not caused by the status of the supplier but by the box Purchasing Blocked in its master data, which is checked.

  1. Go to the Supplier Base Work Center.
  2. Navigate to the Suppliers View.
  3. Search the supplier XYZ.
  4. Choose Edit - Purchasing, you will see that the checkbox purchasing blocked is marked. 

Resolution

Once unmark the checkbox, the supplier would available to be used as a supplier in Purchase Order.

Keywords

Procurement arrangement blocked for seller, Purchase Order, Purchasing Blocked , KBA , AP-PRP , Purchase Request Processing , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions