SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2900377 - The creator of a payment cannot be the same person as the approver in any step

Symptom

The creator of a payment cannot approve the same payment in any step.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Reproducing the Issue

  1. In App Manage Automatic Payments (App ID F0770), payment created by the same person who is assigned as a approver in tab Payment Approvers of App Manage Bank Accounts (App ID F1366A).
  2. In App Approve Bank Payments (App ID F0673A), this approver cannot approve the payment batch for any step.

Resolution

  • The payment creator and approver cannot be the same one for any step from CE2008. This is not allowed in the payment approval process. 
  • The initiator and the approver should always be different. 
  • From release CE2008, the payment creator will not be able to see the batch in App Approve Bank Payments.

See Also

Manage Bank Accounts 

Reversing Rejected Payments Now Becomes Automatic

Approve Bank Payments

Keywords

J60, J77, J78, F0673A, F1366A, F0770, Signatory, Approve Bank Payments, Batch, Creator , KBA , FI-FIO-AP-2CL , Fiori UI for Accounts Payable (Public Cloud) , FIN-FSCM-CLM-BAM , Bank Account Management , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions