SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2954723 - Recurring invoice are going for approvals after 2008 upgrade

Symptom

You noticed that recurring invoices are going for approval, which were not going for approval earlier.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1.  Go to  supplier invoices and credit memos
  2.  Go to recurring runs view
  3.  Select respective run
  4.  Scroll down and select invoice history tab
  5.  Where you can see all invoices
  6.  Invoices created after 2008 version are going for approval

Cause

We have enabled approvals to be applicable for recurring invoices in 2008 version and thus like any other invoice they are also sent for approval.

 Below is the what's new of SRM

https://help.sap.com/viewer/2754875d2d2a403f95e58a41a9c7d6de/2008/en-US/9afff61e86611014b91ca2c9c39092bc.html

Resolution

If you don't want the approvals for recurring invoice then you should add one more condition in the approvals as given below

"entry method not equal to recurring invoice" using AND .

See Also

also refer the  complete what's new in  2008 version

https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/02/sap-business-bydesign-whats-new-20.08/

after every upgrade you can find similar document

Keywords

KBA , AP-SIP , Supplier Invoice Processing , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions