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2083840 - Legal Form Is Not Found In Drop Down Selection For Supplier

Symptom

In the drop down selection of legal forms for Suppliers the desired legal form is not shown.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Supplier Base work center.
  2. Go to the Suppliers view.
  3. Edit - General the Supplier XYZ (XYZ is the identification of the supplier).
  4. Select the Legal Form drop down.

The desired legal form is not found in the drop down selection.

 

Cause

As per standard system design only a limited amount of Legal Forms are available in the drop down selection. 

Resolution

You can add new legal forms in the business configuration.

  1. Go to the Business Configuration work center.
  2. Go to the Implementation Projects view.
  3. Select Show: All Open Projects.
  4. Select the relevant project and press the Open Activity List button.
  5. Select the activity General Business Partners and press the Open button.
  6. Select Maintain Legal Forms.
  7. Click the Add Row Button.

Here you can maintain the missing legal form.

 

Keywords

KBA , legal forms , suppliers , SRD-MD-BP , Business Partner , How To

Product

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