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2236197 - Error ME551 is issued with BAPI_CONTRACT_CHANGE or in Central Contract distribution

Symptom

  • You are using BAPI_CONTRACT_CHANGE to update an agreement, but it doesn´t work properly, because the agreement has deleted items and the BAPI return the error message ME551 (deletion indicator cannot be unset).
  • When trying to reset the deletion indicator via ME32K you don´t receive any error.
  • Using Manage Central Purchase Contract to distributed a contract with deleted item, error ME 551 occurs, when a material is used that has different base unit from the item unit and Var OUn is not set in connected system.


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Environment

  • Materials Management (MM)
  • SAP R/3
  • SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7
  • SAP ERP Core Component
  • SAP ERP
  • SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP
  • SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA

Product

SAP ERP all versions ; SAP R/3 all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA all versions

Keywords

ECC, ME 551, BAPI, LOEKZ, deleted, me32k, UOM, SAPLMEOUT, MESSAGE e551(me), variable order unit, BAPI_CONTRACT_CHANGE, ME551, F3144, MCPC , KBA , MM-PUR-OA-BAPI , BAPIs - Outline Agreements , MM-PUR-HUB-CTR , Central Contract , Problem

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