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2701167 - Error Appears While Creating New Individual Materials in Purchase Order: Number of Individual Materials restricted to 100

Symptom

You are creating purchase order for fixed assets however when you select New Individual Material button, system shows an error message:

Error: Item 1 - Number of Individual Materials restricted to 100

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Purchase Requests and Orders work center
  2. Go to the Purchase Orders view 
  3. Select the relevant Purchase Order
  4. Navigate to Items tab and select New Individual Material button
  5. Error appears

Cause

Currently it is possible to create up to 100 individual materials for one purchase order item. At the same time, the total number of all individual materials in purchase order is restricted to 300.

Resolution

This is the current system behavior. As a work around, you can split the individual materials to 100 per purchase order and create them.

Keywords

Number of Individual Materials restricted to 100; Individual Material; Purchase Order , KBA , number of individual materials restricte , individual materials restricted to 100 , AP-POP-PO , Purchase Order , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions