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3373060 - Exception in Supplier Invoice: 'Posting of invoice not possible due to error in financial accounting ; Referenced Purchase Order not found'

Symptom

You have created all preceding documents correctly and then finally created a supplier invoice with reference to the previously created purchase order.

But you are unable to post it due to error: 'Referenced Purchase Order not found'.

Environment

SAP Business By Design

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to supplier invoicing work center
  2. Select invoices and credit memos view
  3. Search for the respective invoice
  4. Go to Exceptions tab
  5. Error: 'Posting of invoice not possible due to error in financial accounting ; Referenced Purchase Order XYZ not found'.

Cause

The referenced Purchase Order is in approval status.

Steps to check the open tasks for Purchase Order:

  1. Go to Application and User Management work center
  2. Go to Business Task Management view
  3. Select All Items from the drop down and search for the Purchase Order XYZ (XYZ refers to purchase order in approval)
  4. The open approval tasks for this particular Purchase Order will be visible in "In Progress" status.

Resolution

Kindly approve all the preceding documents and then post the supplier invoice.

Keywords

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Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions