Symptom
You are not able to add new functionality Manual Credit Memo and Invoice Approval in the Scope of the project.
Error:
ERROR DURING FINISH PROJECT
Currently unable to finalize these scope changes; some of your decisions would cause inconsistencies in your fine-tuning settings or the productive data.
Reproducing the Issue
1. Go to the Business Configuration workcenter.
2. Go to the Implementation Projects view.
3. Select required project.
4. Select Edit Project Scope and Go to Step 4: Questions.
5. Navigate and Expand the scoping element Sales > Customer Invoicing > Miscellaneous Invoicing.
6. Mark as In Scope.
7. Set the question Do you want to set up approval process for manual customer invoices and credit memos? to Yes.
8. Go to Step 5 and Finish.
9. System displays following errors:
ERROR DURING FINISH PROJECT
Currently unable to finalize these scope changes; some of your decisions would cause inconsistencies in your fine-tuning settings or the productive data.
If error messages are displayed, resolve them before you proceed
Cause
You are scoping an invoice approval option, although not released invoices exist in the system. Therefore the system does not allow the scoping of invoice approval.
Resolution
Since you are scoping invoice approval, please ensure that there are no invoices that are yet to be released.
Keywords
KBA , invoice approval option , scoping , AP-RC-BCT , Business Config. Tools (SAP Business ByDesign , How To