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3114128 - Time of document/posting date differs from the time of the creation date

Symptom

You have create a Purchase Order and generated a Goods Movement (MIGO),
The document/posting date differs from the time of the creation date.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Create a Purchase Order
  2. Generate a Goods Movement
  3. Check the posting date of the document and the creation date

Cause

Standard System Behavior

Resolution

1. The document/posting date is based on the local time zone (e.g German time zone GMT+2)

2. The creation date is based on the system sever time zone, in your system which is set as UTC. Therefore, the creation date is recorded UTC date.

-> The purpose of these kind of different document dates is considering the international Bilanz Legal requirement so that a international company with different daughter company located different countries can publish its Bilanz data with identical time zone, resp.: their Server Time Zone.

Keywords

Time Stamp; Purchase Order; , KBA , MM-PUR-PO , Purchase Orders , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud all versions