2154720 - Intercompany Sales/service Order is Not Created

Symptom

The Intercompany Sales Order/Service Order is not created from intercompany Purchase Order. However, the Intercompany Purchase Order is sent to the Supplier.

Environment

SAP Business ByDeisgn

Reproducing the Issue

Go to Purchase Requests and Orders work center.
Go to Purchase Orders View.
Show All Purchase Orders and find relevant Order ID.
Select and Edit the Purchase Order.
Choose View All and navigate to the Document Flow tab.

The Intercompany Sales Order is not created via B2B communication, but the Intercompany Purchase Order is sent to the Supplier.

Cause

The Electronic Data Exchange (EDX) has not been maintained as the output channel in either the Supplier or Account master data. Additionally, in the Output history tab of the Purchase Order, the send by is not XML.

Resolution

In order to ensure that Purchase Orders must be sent via Internal EDX (XML communication) to Supplying Company, also Sales Order Confirmations and Customer Invoices must be sent via Internal EDX (XML communication) to Purchasing Company, then maintain the Output Channel by following below steps:

Supplier :

Go to the Business Partner Data work center.
Choose the Supplier view
Search and Choose the Supplying Company
Choose Edit button
Go to Communication -> Collaboration
Here choose the Business Documents Purchase Orders and mark the Output Channel as Internal EDX.

Account :

Go to the Business Partner Data work center..
Choose the Accounts view
Search and Choose the Purchasing Company
Choose Edit button
Go to Communication -> Collaboration
Here choose the Business Documents Sales Order Confirmation and Customer Invoice / Credit Memo mark the Output Channel as Internal EDX.

Follow below before ordering the Purchase order:

Go to You can also button in Purchase Order.
Click on Edit out put settings.
Choose send by as XML.
Click on OK.

The Output channel can be set to be picked automatically for combination of Company and Supplier by following below steps:

Go to Application User Management work center.
Select to Output Channel Selection view.
Choose the related Form.
Enter the Company and Supplier and choose Output Channel as XML.

Update in Supplier Master Data:

Open the Supplier details.
Navigate to Communication tab.
Select to Collaboration sub-tab.
In the Purchase Order line choose Output channel as "internal edx".

Keywords

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Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions