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3380763 - Error - 'Profit center XYZ determined for Expense Report ABC is not valid on DD.MM.YYYY' occurred while trying to post the Expense Report

Symptom

When you are trying the post the Expense Report 'ABC' (ABC refers to Expense Report ID) you are facing below mentioned error message.

Error Message: Profit center XYZ determined for Expense Report ABC is not valid on DD.MM.YYYY. Check the validity of profit center  XYZ in Organizational Management and your default profit centers in configuration. (XYZ refers to Profit Center ID).

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign 

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to Expense Report sub view.
  3. Search for the Expense Report ABC(In Process status)
  4. You will see the error message: Profit center XYZ determined for Expense Report ABC is not valid on DD.MM.YYYY. Check the validity of profit center  XYZ in Organizational Management and your default profit centers in configuration.

Cause

This error caused because the validity date of the Profit center determined for Expense Report got expired and not valid on that particular date mentioned in the error message. 

Resolution

  1. Go to Organizational Management work center.
  2. Go to Edit Org Structures sub view.
  3. Search for the relevant Company of the Profit center under Org unit name.
  4. Highlight that Org Unit, under timeline you can see the Profit center 'Valid from' and 'Valid to' Date.
  5. Here you try to extend the 'Valid to' to the relevant date.(as mentioned in error message)

Now you can able post the Expense Report.

Keywords

Organizational Management, Validity Date, Profit Center, Org Structures, Expense Report. , KBA , SRD-FIN-GL , General Ledger , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2308