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3061559 - Error: The buyer differs from that in purchase document .You can only post the supplier invoice if the buyer is the same as that in the purchase document.

Symptom

You are trying to create a supplier invoice with reference to purchasing contract that belongs to different company. However you get the below error.

Error: The buyer differs from that in purchase document .You can only post the supplier invoice if the buyer is the same as that in the purchase document.

Environment

  SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Supplier invoicing work center
  2. Go to Common Tasks
  3. Select New Invoice Without Purchase Order
  4. Enter the necessary details 
  5. Go to Items tab and Basic Data sub tab
  6. Enter the Contarct that belongs to other Company
  7. Error appears

Cause

System will perform the validation check in the supplier invoice document while posting. For compatibility reasons system will check the assigned contracts in the supplier invoice and the corresponding buyer responsible should be the same as in purchase order. If it differs, system will throw an error message.

Resolution

Currently we do not allow the Contract belonging to other company to be used in the supplier invoice document, however we allow the same in purchase order though. Kindly post the idea in SAP Business ByDesign Ideas Forum to submit an idea: https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/886

Also In PO if you want to raise an error then follow below steps:

1.If you are a partner: you can help develop this using SDK or  please use cloudsolutionpartner@sap.com or the Partnerfinder .
2.If you are a customer: if you already have a partner ,ask them to help develop it for you through SDK.

Keywords

The buyer differs from that in purchase document .You can only post the supplier invoice if the buyer is the same as that in the purchase document. , KBA , SRD-SRM-SI , Supplier Invoicing , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2405 ; SAP Business ByDesign 2408