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2678642 - How to Process Not Canceled and Unposted Goods and Services Receipt in Accounting.

Symptom

You are unable to post Goods and Services Receipt due to the error message:

'Cannot process Goods and Services Receipt XXX because Purchase Order YYY not yet posted in accounting. As Goods and Services Receipt XXX contains a reference to Purchase Order YYY but Purchase Order YYY has not been posted in accounting, it is impossible to process Goods and Services Receipt XXX. Check why Purchase Order YYY has not been posted.'

(XXX stands for the ID of the Goods and Services Receipt and YYY stands for the ID of the relevant Purchase Order).

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the General Ledger work centre.
  2. Go to the Closing Cockpit view.
  3. Select the Source Documents sub view.
  4. Show All source documents and search for ID: XXX (XXX stands for the Source Document ID).

In Messages, the following error is displayed:

'Cannot process Goods and Services Receipt XXX because Purchase Order YYY not yet posted in accounting. As Goods and Services Receipt XXX contains a reference to Purchase Order YYY but Purchase Order YYY has not been posted in accounting, it is impossible to process Goods and Services Receipt XXX. Check why Purchase Order YYY has not been posted.'

  1. Go to the Purchase Requests and Orders Workcentre.
  2. Go to the Purchase Orders View. 
  3.  Show All Purchase Orders.
  4. Search for Purchase Order YYY.

Purchase Order YYY status is 'Not Canceled'.
The Delivery Date of some Items of the Purchase Orders is in the future (Next Year, In two years time, In three years time etc.)
The Posting Date is not maintained.

Cause

  • The issue is due of the Delivery Dates on the Purchase Order YYY. Since the procurement forecasting is scoped in the system, the system tries to post forecasting lines with the Delivery Date as the Posting Date.
  • The Items ID: A, B, C have their Delivery Dates in the future (Next year for instance). The concenred fiscal year is still not even opened in the system, thus the messages from Purchase Order to Accounting are stuck.
    (A, B, C stand for the ID of the items in the Purchase Order)

Resolution

You have to change the Delivery Dates according to the fiscal year set up in the system or you have to keep the future period concerned open.

See Also

2525508 - How to Process Cancelled and Unposted Goods and Services Receipt in Accounting

Keywords

Unposted Source Document,  Accusé de réception de biens et services non posté, Document Commerciaux non trouvés , KBA , AP-ACC-PUR , Purchase Ledger Account , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions