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2699401 - You are Unable to Add the Inventory Cost in the Material Master Data

Symptom

You are trying to add another entry for the inventory cost in the materail master data and the entry is not added.

However, while you save, there is a message stating Your entries have been saved.

Environment

SAP Business Bydesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Product Data work center.
  2. Go to the Materials view and then Materials sub view.
  3. Search for the Material XYZ(XYZ represents Material ID)and click on Edit.
  4. Click on View All and Go to the Valuation tab.
  5. Click on Edit Cost.

OR

  1. Go to the Inventory Valuation work center.
  2. Go to the Master Data view and then Materials sub view.
  3. Search for the Material XYZ(XYZ represents Material ID).
  4. Click on Edit and go to Valuation tab.
  5. Click on Edit Cost.

There is a pop up window where you enter the Cost Type as Inventory Cost, enter the Cost as for eg: nn.nnn(represents the Cost), Cost Unit and the Valid From. Click Ok.

This entry for the inventory cost is not added however while you click on Save, there is a message stating Your entries have been saved.

Further, when you adding material XYZ to a sales order the following error occurs: Item XX: Costs not determined: There is no active inventory cost for material XYZ in company EFG.

The document cannot be saved.

(XX represents Item ID, EFG represents company Id)

Cause

You have entered more than 2 decimal values and is not valid.

All currencies are predefined according to ISO code list 4217. You can use the fine-tuning activity Currencies to view all currencies available in your system and the decimals which will be displayed for your currency.

Resolution

  1. Go to the Product Data work center.
  2. Go to the Materials view and then Materials sub view.
  3. Search for the Material XYZ(XYZ represents Material ID)and click on Edit.
  4. Click on View All and Go to the Valuation tab.
  5. Click on Edit Cost.

OR

  1. Go to the Inventory Valuation work center.
  2. Go to the Master Data view and then Materials sub view.
  3. Search for the Material XYZ(XYZ represents Material ID).
  4. Click on Edit and go to Valuation tab.
  5. Click on Edit Cost.

There is a pop up window where you enter the Cost Type as Inventory Cost, enter the Cost as for eg: nn.nn(represents the Cost), Cost Unit and the Valid From. Click Ok.

This entry for the inventory cost is now added and can be used in the subsequent documents.

Keywords

Update inventory cost, Material Master data , KBA , SRD-FIN-INV , Inventory , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions