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2672132 - Unposted Source Document Error: Account Determination for Inventories is Missing for Acct Det. Group XXX

Symptom

You have noticed an unposted source document (e.g. warehouse confirmation) and an error message which prevents the document being posted.

 Error message: 'Account determination for inventories is missing for Acct Det. Group XXX'.

XXX represents Account Determination Group ID.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to the Closing Cockpit view.
  3. Go to the Source Documents sub-view.
  4. Search for your Source Document ID, in this case the Source Document is a Warehouse Confirmation.
  5. Select the ID and under the Details session you can see this error:

'Account determination for inventories is missing for Acct Det. Group XXX'.

Cause

The reason is that you have not maintained the G/L account under account determination group for the respective material. If a material is involved in the warehouse confirmation, then the respective G/L acocunt is derived is using the account determination group of this material. You need to maintain the G/L account for the respective Account determination group.

Resolution

  1. Go to the  Business Configuration work center.
  2. Go to the Fine Tune and select the activity Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination.
  3. Select the link Inventories under Account Determination.
  4. Select the Account Determination Profile YYY and navigate to Inventory tab. (YYY represents Account Determination Profile ID)
  5. Maintain G/L Account for the respective Account Determination Group XXX.
  6. Click on Save button.

Now you are able to post the Unposted Source Document:

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to the Closing Cockpit view.
  3. Go to the Source Documents subview.
  4. Search for your Source Document ID, the warehouse confirmation.
  5. Select the ID and press Actions and select Post Business Transaction.

Keywords

Source document error, Account Determination Group, Inventories is Missing, Material Inventories , KBA , inventories is missing , account determinaiton for inventories , acc det. group , unposted source document , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions