Symptom
You want to know why the contracts are not closed automatically
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
For list of effected Contracts follow below steps:
Go to Sourcing and contracting work center
Go to contracts view
In this OWL view
Click on advanced filter
status "Released"
Valid On choose <= Previous day's date
You shall see contracts who's validity To is on or before Previous day's date
Cause
The auto close functionality of contract works when the released value is lesser than the target value.
Resolution
This is the desired behavior and we intend to not change this as this might affect other customers.
So please manually close the contracts in the UI.
Also you may consider to add this requirements on Customer Influence Forum at https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/886
Keywords
KBA , AP-PCP , Purchasing Contract Processing , Problem