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
- Go to the General Ledger work center.
- Go to the Closing Cockpit view.
- Go to the Source Documents sub-view.
- Search for your Source Document ID, in this case the Source Document is a Warehouse Confirmation.
- 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
- Go to the Business Configuration work center.
- Go to the Fine Tune and select the activity Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination.
- Select the link Inventories under Account Determination.
- Select the Account Determination Profile YYY and navigate to Inventory tab. (YYY represents Account Determination Profile ID)
- Maintain G/L Account for the respective Account Determination Group XXX.
- Click on Save button.
Now you are able to post the Unposted Source Document:
- Go to the General Ledger work center.
- Go to the Closing Cockpit view.
- Go to the Source Documents subview.
- Search for your Source Document ID, the warehouse confirmation.
- 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