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2932576 - Error "Similar Entry for Supply Planning Area Already Exists" While Trying to Migrate Materials

Symptom

You are trying to migrate Materials via Migration Tool, however you are receiving the error message below:

"Similar Entry for Supply Planning area already exists"

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Business Configuration work center.
  2. Select Implementation Projects view or Overview.
  3. Search and Open the migration activity Migration of Materials.
  4. Execute Migration for the respective Migration File.

Cause

 The error message is related to the Convert Values step, there are Planning Areas that were converted to the same target value and therefore the system shows the error message.

Resolution

You need to check the conversion of the respective Planning Areas in the Convert Values step of the Migration of Materials and in the case the conversion is incorrect, you have to correct these values.
You can find the incorrect values in the second step of the Migration Tool, named as Convert Values.

Keywords

Migration of Materials, Error Message, Similar Entry for Supply Planning area already exists. , KBA , AP-PRD-MAT , Material , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions