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2577675 - Error Appears While Changing The Status of Logistics Area to Obsolete

Symptom

Error appears while changing the status of a Logistics Area to Obsolete.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Navigate to Supply Chain Design Master Data work center.
  2. Go to Locations view.
  3. Select the relevant Site ID and click Edit Layout.
  4. Find and select the relevant Logistics Area.
  5. Click Change Status and select Set to Obsolete.
  6. System returns the error message: Change logistics area status not possible; logistics area not empty.

Cause

  1. System is unable to change the status to Obsolete as there are still Inventories available in the Logistics Area.
  2. Another possible cause is if there is any Open Task which still tagged to the relevant Logistics Area.

Resolution

  1. If there is still inventory in the affected Logistics Area, kindly move all the inventories to a different Logistics Area and then proceed set the status of the Logistics Area to Obsolete.
  2. In order to find the outstanding task in the system, please check in one of the following work centers - Inbound/Outbound/Internal Logistics/Production Control.

For Example

  1. Go to Outbound Logistics work center.
  2. Navigate to Task Control.
  3. Click Advanced Filter.
  4. Enter the Logistics Area ID into the Source Logistics Area ID field.
  5. Run the Query.

Keywords

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Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions