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2975914 - Distribute Additional Costs Proportionally Checkbox Greyed Out in Supplier Invoice

Symptom

When adding an item with Item Type Additional Cost Debit Item to a Supplier Invoice, the checkbox Distribute Additional Costs Proportionally is automatically marked and grayed out.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Supplier Invoicing work center.
  2. Go to the New Invoice Without Purchase Order common task.
  3. Provide the mandatory details like Supplier, External Document ID, Invoice Date, Receipt Date and Posting Date.
  4. Click on the View All button.
  5. Navigate to the Items tab.
  6. Click on the Add Row button.
  7. On the Basic Data sub-tab, select Type as Additional Cost Debit Item from the dropdown menu.
  8. Go to the sub-tab Cost Distribution.

There you can see checkbox Distribute Additional Costs Proportionally checked and grayed out.

Cause

This is a standard behavior of the system. For Item Type Additional Costs Debit Item, the system does not to allow the removing of this checkbox.

Resolution

If you need to have the checkbox Distribute Additional Costs Proportionally unmarked, you can do the following workaround:

  1. Go to the Supplier Invoicing work center.
  2. Go to the New Invoice Without Purchase Order common task.
  3. Provide the mandatory details like Supplier, External Document ID, Invoice Date, Receipt Date and Posting Date.
  4. Click on the View All button.
  5. Navigate to the Items tab.
  6. Click on the Add Row button.
  7. On the Basic Data sub-tab, select Type as Invoice Item or Credit Memo Item.

See Also

2531871 - The Indicator Distribute Additional Costs Proportionally on Purchase Order is Automatically set to true value while creating Purchase Order via Web Services

Keywords

Distribute, Additional Costs, item, type, Debit Item, Supplier Invoice, checkbox, grayed out, marked, automatically , KBA , SRD-SRM-SI , Supplier Invoicing , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions