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2068664 - "Financials assignment for Material XYZ/business residence ABC(ABC Description) not specified"

Symptom

Unposted source document for Supplier Invoice or Customer Invoice shows the following error:

"Financials assignment for Material XYZ/business residence ABC(ABC Description) not specified". (XYZ represents the Material ID, ABC represents the Business Residence ID).

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Choose the Source Document View.
  3. Show Unposted Source Documents and search for DEF (DEF represents your Supplier Invoice or Customer Invoice ID).

You see a task with the below error message: 
"Financials assignment for Material XYZ/business residence ABC(ABC Description) not specified".

Cause

Financials assignment for Material XYZ/Business Residence ABC is not maintained on the posting date DD-MM-YYYY.

So the document was not posted successfully and created a task in the General ledger.

If you check the material master data, you will see the same error against the Material. Check the changes tab, you will notice that the Business Residence ABC was added recently. Therefore you need to add the financial assignment for this Business Residence.

Resolution

To maintain the financials Assignment for Material XYZ for Business Residence ABC, follow the below steps:

  1. In the Product Data work center, choose the Materials view.
  2. Search for material XYZ and click Edit.
  3. In the Valuation tab, add one row for Business Residence ABC.
  4. Enter the Account Determination Group.
  5. Enter all mandatory data.
  6. Click Save.

To successfully finish the task, follow the instructions below:

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to the Source Documents sub view.
  3. Select the query Unposted Source Documents in Show field.
  4. Select the relevant task created for DEF.
  5. Choose Post Business Transaction from drop-down of Actions option.

See Also

Please refer to KBA: 2660379 - Message 'Financials Assignment for Material ABC/Business Residence XYZ not specified' is Still Displayed After Valuation Maintenance

Keywords

financial assignment, material, business residence, not specified, error , KBA , SRD-MD-PRD-PRD , Product , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions