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2816705 - Error: Delivery Start Date Must Not Be In The Past When Awarding a Supplier Quote

Symptom

You try to award a quote but system throws the following error messages:

  • Delivery Start Date Must not be in the Past.
  • Delivery End Date Must not be in the Past.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Sourcing and Contracting work center.
  2. Click on Quotes view.
  3. Filter for Submitted Quotes.
  4. Select Quote ID XYZ (XYZ being the Quote ID).
  5. Click on Edit.
  6. Click on the Award or Check button.

You get one of the following error messages:

  • Delivery Start Date Must not be in the Past.
  • Delivery End Date Must not be in the Past. 

Cause

This happens because you are trying to award a Quote that has Offered Service Period From or Requested Delivery Date set in the past.

You can see this while on Quote XYZ if you:

  1. Go to Sourcing and Contracting work center.
  2. Click on Quotes view.
  3. Filter for Submitted Quote
  4. Select Quote ID XYZ (XYZ being the Quote ID).
  5. Click on Edit.
  6. Click on the Items tab.
  7. Click on the Delivery subtab.

Resolution

If the deadline from the Request for Quotation hasn't been reached yet, you can follow the steps bellow.

  1. Go to Sourcing and Contracting Work Center.
  2. Click on Quotes View.
  3. Filter for Submitted Quotes.
  4. Select Quote ID XYZ.
  5. Click on Edit.
  6. Click on Return.
  7. Change the "Offered Service Period From" or "Requested Delivery Date" date to a valid one.
  8. Save document.

If the deadline from the Request for Quotation has been reached:

You will need to cancel both Quote and Request for Quotation because returning the Quote will cause another inconsistency since the deadline from the Request for Quotation has already passed.

Keywords

Request Quotation, Supplier, Quote, Delivery Date, Start Date, End Date, Error Message , KBA , AP-RFQ-QTE , Supplier Quote , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions