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2525138 - System Crash When You Try to Post a New Supplier Invoice

Symptom

You are creating a new Supplier Invoice without Purchase Order and when you click on Post the system dumps.

Reproducing the Issue

1. Go to Supplier Invoicing Work Center.

2. Click on Common Tasks / New Invoice without Purchase Order.

3. Enter all the necessary data to create the new Supplier Invoice.

4. Click Check.

5. System displays the Message Documents contains no Errors.

6. Click Post.

7. System crashes.

Cause

In the Fine-Tune Activity Document Numbering Formats for Supplier Invoicing you have maintained two Document Numbering Formats for the same Company. This is not allowed, even though the Prefixes might be different.

Resolution

You have two options to resolve this issue:

 

A) You can remove the new Document Numbering Format which has not been used yet.

1. Go to Business Configuration Work Center.

2. Go to Implementation Projects view.

3. Highlight the relevant Project.

4. Click Open Activity List.

5. Select the Fine-Tune tab.

6. Select Show All Activities and Find Document Numbering Formats for Supplier Invoicing.

7. Click Open.

8. You can see that two Document Numbering Formats have been maintained for the same Company.

9. Highlight the new Format and click Delete Row.

10. Click Save.

 

B) If you want to use the new Format, mark the checkboxes for Calendar Year as Suffix and Restart Doc. ID Each Cal. Year.

1. Go to Business Configuration Work Center.

2. Go to Implementation Projects view.

3. Highlight the relevant Project.

4. Click Open Activity List.

5. Select the Fine-Tune tab.

6. Select Show All Activities and Find Document Numbering Formats for Supplier Invoicing.

7. Click Open.

8. Highlight the new Document Numbering Format.

9. Mark the checkboxes for Calendar Year as Suffix and Restart Doc. ID Each Cal.

10. Click Save.

Keywords

KBA , AP-SIP , Supplier Invoice Processing , How To

Product

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