Symptom
You are replicating Materials from an External System to Cloud for Customer and system throws below error message,
Quantity type ABC not valid; it is not summable.
Environment
SAP Cloud for Customer
Reproducing the Issue
1. Replicate a material from an external system;
2. Check message under Web Service Message Monitoring;
3. You will see error message via interface MaterialReplicationInitiatedByExternalIn.
Cause
The error is due to quantity conversion (under node <QuantityConversion>) between a physical and trading unit, which is not allowed in C4C.
ERP may allow this, but C4C will not.
Resolution
Customer need to avoid the conversion between physical units to trading units:
1. Remove this data from ERP or;
2. Remove this data in the middleware so it's not send to C4C.
See Also
Keywords
quantity, conversion, unit of measure, material replication, MaterialReplicationInitiatedByExternalIn , KBA , LOD-CRM-INT-ERP , Integration of C4C with ERP , Problem