Symptom
You want to post a cancellation of Goods and Service Receipt, however you are not able to proceed with this because of an error message, which says: Posting date XX/XX/XX must be after last retrmt date XX/XX/XX of fixed asset ABC
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to General Ledger Work Center.
- Go to Source Documents view.
- Select the respective Goods and Service Cancellation.
You see the error message: Posting date XX/XX/XX must be after last retrmt date xx/xx/xx of fixed asset ABC.
Cause
The cancellation Goods and Activity Receipt comes after the complete transfer or retirement of the individual material. Hence, the documents are stuck in accounting with errors.
Resolution
You will have to reverse the transfer/retirement posting and then post the cancellation Goods and Service Receipt in order to resolve the issue as once the complete transfer/retirement is posted the Individual Material status on the source Fixed Asset is also retired.
Keywords
fixed asset. retirement. manual posting. complete transfer. , KBA , SRD-CC , Cross Components , How To