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3345949 - Exception Occurs While Posting the Supplier Invoice

Symptom

Exception occurs while posting the supplier invoice. 
Error - Item 1: Item amount greater than limit XYZ EUR of purchase order ABC

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Supplier Invoicing work center
  2. Go to the Invoices and Credit Memos view
  3. Select the relevant Supplier Invoice
  4. Select Edit and navigate to the Exceptions tab
  5. Error is visible

Cause

Supplier invoice contains Price Variance exception.  For Price Variance exception, you have defined the Exception Criteria as - Variance Higher Than (Percentage) % AND Variance Higher Than (Net Amount) XYZ EUR. Since the variance is greater than % and XYZ EUR, system has created the exception. 

Resolution

If you want to post supplier invoice for higher net amount, you can accept the exception and post the invoice.

To do so, you can follow the below steps;

  1. Go to the Supplier Invoicing work center
  2. Go to the Invoices and Credit Memos view
  3. Select the relevant Supplier Invoice
  4. Select Edit and navigate to the Exceptions tab
  5. Select the button Accept Price Variance button
  6. Then invoice will be in Ready for posting status. 

See Also

3242946 - Error Message - Credit memo has an exception suggesting that the credit amount is greater than invoiced order amount or limit however this is not the case and invoice  appears to be identical.

1642296 - Credit value greater than invoiced order value or limit

Keywords

Item 1: Item amount greater than limit of purchase order; Price variance exception , KBA , SRD-SRM-SI , Supplier Invoicing , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2305