SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3397578 - Missing values for Budget Category in Purchase Order per Account Assignment Report

Symptom

You have maintained a value against the field "Budget Category" in a Purchase Order.

However, in the Purchase Order per Account Assignment Report, the value "Not assigned" appears under field "Budget Category". 

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Purchase Request and Orders work center. 
  2. Go to Lists view. 
  3. Search for Report Purchase Order per Account Assignment. 
  4. Open the Report. 
  5. In the View menu on the left hand-side, select row fields; Purchase Order ID and Budget Category. 
  6. Now navigate to the Selection menu on left hand-side, and enter the Purchase Order ID in the Purchase Order ID field.  
  7. Execute the Report. 

>> Notice that under Budget Category field that the value for Purchase Order ID is "Not assigned" although in the Purchase Order Document itself there is a budget category with a value maintained. 

Please note: in order to see this field, please make field visible in Personalization mode. 

Cause

This is a technical limitation of the system.

Resolution

Should you need any new enhancement added to the software, feel free to directly submit your request for this feature to the correct decision makers at SAP via Customer Influence.

The Customer Influence site, https://influence.sap.com, allows customers to log Improvement Requests themselves and have the ability to work directly with our technology and development group.

Thank you for your understanding.

Keywords

Purchase Order per Account Assignment, Report, Budget Category, Not assigned.  , KBA , SRD-SRM-PRO , Purchase Requests and Orders , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2311