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
- Go to Inventory Valuation work center.
- Go to GR/IR Clearing view.
- Open the run that was executed.
- Go to tab Processed with Errors.
- 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Invoice and/or Goods and Services Receipt that was not processed has account assignment to a Cost Center that is no longer valid.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:
- Go to Cost and Revenue work center.
- Go to Cost Centers view.
- Find the Cost Center XYZ that was mentioned on the error message of the GR/IR Clearing.
Or Check it on the Organizational Structure:
- Go to Organizational Management work center.
- Go to Organizational Structure view.
- Find the Cost Center XYZ.
- Go to tab Timelines.
- Check attribute Managerial - Cost Center.
- 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:
- Go to Organizational Management work center.
- Go to Organizational Structures view.
- Click Find, search for Cost Center XYZ and click Locate.
- Click Edit.
- Go to Timelines tab.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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