SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2936932 - It is not possible to assign a WBS Element to a Sales Order line item

Symptom

There is an error message during WBS element allocation to sales orders - V2 511: You cannot assign any WBS elements to this sales document item category.

Environment

  •  Sales and Distribution (SD)
  •  SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition

Cause

CE2005 has introduced new checks against the validity of WBS Elements at sales order level - See the following Blog for more details: Community Blog.

More information is also available in the Whats New documentation:

"7.1.1.2 Improved EfficLenc\ for Projects with Revenue through Sales Integration

You can only link a Sales Order line item to a WBS element in the project structure that is flagged as Billing Element.

9.1.5.4 Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management in Sales Documents
You can now assign work breakdown structure (WBS) elements from Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management (EPPM) projects to sales document items. This assures that the corresponding revenue is posted correctly"

Resolution

  • There are a number of allowlisted item categories available – you can check the list here.
  • The full process can be found in the test script of the Best Practices - see the link.

Keywords

Profit, centre, account assignment, order, billing, Invoice, returns, replacement, TAN, OR, Standard, , KBA , SD-SLS-SO , Sales Orders , SD-SLS , Sales , SD-SLS-SO-2CL , Sales Orders (Public Cloud) , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2005 ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2008 ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2011 ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2102 ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2105