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2176435 - Gross pricing not supported by projects based services and products.

Symptom

When you assign project based item type in sales order /sales quote the system throws error message as Gross pricing not supported by projects based services and products.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Sales Orders work center.
  2. Choose New sales order view. under Common tasks.
  3. Enter the Item then system throws the above error message.

Cause

This is an expected behavior of standard ByD system, currently the system does not support the total price in the form of Gross Price for project-based services and products and the total price is  supported in the form of Net price.

Further since we deal with the expense of the project-based services and products, Net (or Net) refers to the amount left over after all deductions and are made like expenses occurred for the project etc.

You can check in the master date the item group, Kindly follow the below steps to check the item group.

  1. Go to Product Data work center
  2. Choose the Services/ Products subview.
  3. Choose the  specific service or product.
  4. Choose Edit button.
  5. Go to Sales tab under Details: Distribution Chain under the Sales subtab here you can see the product belong to which Item Group, If the service or products belong to nay of the below item groups then the project is project based item. 

    PBTM - Service - time and material (project)

    PBFP - Service - fixed price (project)

    PMAT - Product - project based

Resolution

  1. Go to Sales Orders work center.
  2. Choose the Sales Order XYZ.
  3. Choose Edit button.
  4. Personalize this screen.
  5. Choose the price in field and save.
  6. Now switch the Price In radio button from Gross to Net Price.

Keywords

KBA , SRD-CRM-ORD , Orders & Contracts , How To

Product

SAP BUSINESS BYDESIGN 1705 ; SAP BUSINESS BYDESIGN 1708 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1302 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1702 ; SAP Business ByDesign 1711