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2579236 - Error Appears While Creating New Purchase Order for Individual Materials: Owner party ID not valid; it is not active

Symptom

When creating new purchase order for fixed asset by selecting New Individual Materials, system shows error messages:

Owner party ID XYZ not valid; it is not active
Save failed after performing action

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Purchase Requests and Orders work center
  2. Go to Common Tasks and select New Purchase Order
  3. Enter Supplier, Company and mandatory details
  4. Navigate to Items tab
  5. Create a New Individual Material
  6. Select Order button and error appears

Cause

The business partner XYZ is blocked and hence the error message appears.

Resolution

Please follow below steps to fix the issue.

  1. Go to the Business Partner Data work center
  2. Go to the Business Partners view 
  3. Select All Business Partners & search for Business Partner XYZ 
  4. You can see that Business Partner is blocked
  5. Select Change Status and select Active

Keywords

Owner party ID not valid; Save failed after performing action; Individual Material , KBA , individual material , save failed after performing action , owner party id xyz not valid , AP-POP-PO , Purchase Order , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions