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2157547 - GR/IR Clearing Run Error: Cost Center XYZ not found

Symptom

After executed GR/IR Clearing Run, which resulted in the following errors:

'Cost center XYZ not found'.
'Define a default profit center for company ABC and subledger Cost Centers'.

XYZ represents Cost Center ID.

ABC repesents Company ID.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Inventory Valuation work center.
  2. Go to GR/IR Clearing view.
  3. Open the run that was executed.
  4. Go to tab Processed with Errors.
  5. The mentioned error messages are displayed.

Cause

Supplier Invoice and/or Goods and Services Receipt that was not processed has account assignment to a Cost Center that is no longer valid.

To check the account assignment please go to the source document and check it.

Check the current valid cost centers on:

  1. Go to Cost and Revenue work center.
  2. Go to Cost Centers view.
  3. Find the Cost Center XYZ that was mentioned on the error message of the GR/IR Clearing.

Or Check it on the Organizational Structure:

  1. Go to Organizational Management work center.
  2. Go to Organizational Structure view.
  3. Find the Cost Center XYZ.
  4. Go to tab Timelines.
  5. Check attribute Managerial - Cost Center.
  6. See the valid to date is not valid on the moment that GR/IR Clearing was executed.

Resolution

In order to adjust the validity of the cost center, please follow below steps:

  1. Go to Organizational Management work center.
  2. Go to Organizational Structures view.
  3. Click Find, search for Cost Center XYZ and click Locate.
  4. Click Edit.
  5. Go to Timelines tab.
  6. Here adjust the valid to date accordingly. It is necessary that cost center is valid on the day that GR/IR Clearing Run is executed.
  7. Make sure all the parent orgs are within the validity as well. Or else an error message would show: A timeline must lie within the timeline of its parent.
  8. Execute GR/IR Clearing Run again for the source documents not processed.

In case do not want to use the cost center XYZ and hence do not want to extend its validity, a different one must be assigned on the source documents which were not processed.

Keywords

GR/IR, Clearing Run, Org. Unit. , KBA , SRD-FIN-INV , Inventory , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions