Symptom
- The App 'Close Period for Product Master' tries to close a period not defined in the "Scheduling Options" or "Parameters" of the Job
- Period Closing App returns 'Incorrect period in control rec. of CoCd; no conversion here , The control record has the current period (month / year)" when run through the App 'Close Period for Product Master'
- The App 'Close Period for Product Master' is run on the first day of the Month but tries to close previous Month incorrectly
Environment
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- Material Master / Product Master.
Cause
System works as Designed.
The flag "Use current date" is set
When the Flag “Use current date” is checked, the Close Periods App will get executed taking the current System date as Input parameter and the corresponding Period will get closed.
This System date is the date/time as per the date/time where the SAP system or server is located.
The System time for Cloud customers is GMT ( Greenwich Mean Time ) .
Resolution
Update the Job Schedule Start time or Job Start Time under "Define Recurrance Pattern" in the App 'Close Period for Product Master' to take into consideration the GMT timelines of the Cloud system and not use the local time
See Also
Keywords
MARV , 'Greenwich UK with DST' , GMTUK , CET , 'Schedule Job for Closing Periods' , KBA , LO-MD-MM , Material Master , BC-SRV-APS-APJ , Catalog based application job , Problem