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3010753 - Error "Copying item XX not possible; reference item has deviating price strategy" Occurrs when you Create Contract from Contract Template

Symptom

The Contract can't be created from contract template. The error "Copying item XX not possible; reference item has deviating price strategy" occurrs.

Environment

 SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Create a New Contract 
  2. Maintain Account and Sales Unit
  3. Click Create from template button
  4. Select template ID: ABC (where ABC stands for the template) 
  5. Error:"Copying item XX not possible; reference item has deviating price strategy" occurrs.

Cause

The default pricing for direct sales is Gross.

  1. Go to Business Configuration Work Center
  2. Open Configure Price Strategy activity
  3. Click Configuration For Default Pricing
  4. For Direct sales the default pricing is Gross

The contract template can't support gross pricing.

Only net pricing is supported for contract templates. When the creation of the contract price is in gross, the items in the template cannot be copied to the contract.

Resolution

This is the standard system behavior

Keywords

Contract; Contract Template; Gross Pricing , KBA , SRD-CRM-ORD , Orders & Contracts , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions