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2062016 - Error While Creating New Individual Material: The individual materials are inconsistent due to an inactive company. Remove the individual materials or activate the company

Symptom

System displays the error message The individual materials are inconsistent due to an inactive company. Remove the individual materials or activate the company, while creating a new individual material in a purchase order.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Purchase Order and Requests work center.
  2. Select the Purchase Order view.
  3. Search for All Purchase Order under Show All and find the required purchase order.
  4. Edit the Purchase Order and choose the button View All.
  5. Navigate to Items tab.
  6. Choose the relevant line item.
  7. Select the button New Individual Material.
  8. press Save.
  9. System displays the below error message.

The individual materials are inconsistent due to an inactive company. Remove the individual materials or activate the company.

Cause

The associated Business Partner of the purchasing company has its status Blocked. This is the reason why the system displays the above error message.

Resolution

   1. Go to Organizational Management Work Center.
   2. Choose the Org Structure view.
   3. Search the relevant Company.
   4. Go to the Definition tab.
   5. Navigate to Legal Definitions->Country of Registration->Associated Business Partner.
   6. Open the corresponding Business Partner Organization.
   7. Change the status to Active.

Keywords

KBA , AP-POP , Purchase Order Processing , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions