Symptom
System cannot determine the approver and raise the error 'No approver found; task is unassigned' on supplier invoice.
You have scoped self-approval for supplier invoice and the invoice employee responsible is also the cost center manager.
Why system doesn't directly allow posting of the invoice as mentioned in KBA 2951476?
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to Supplier Invoicing work center.
- Go to Invoices and Credit Memos view.
- Filter the list 'All Documents'.
- Search and open the affected supplier invoice.
- Navigate to Approval tab, you see the error 'No approver found; task is unassigned'.
Cause
The work distribution on approval rule is 'Approval by Cost Assignment'.
However, self-approval question only considers the cases where the task is generated by work distribution: 'Direct Approvers'. This question is not applicable for other work distributions.
That's why when the invoice employee responsible is also the cost center manager, system will create an unassigned task and will not assigned to user.
Resolution
Please ask the Key user to assign the unassigned task from application user management and get it approved by whoever they feel is correct to approve in this situation.
See Also
2854701 - Error: No approver found; task is unassigned
2883914 - Supplier invoice self approval
2951476 - Supplier invoice bypass the approval and directly posted, though self-approval is enabled
Keywords
No approver found; task is unassigned, Supplier invoice, Self-approval, Cost center manager , KBA , SRD-SRM-SI , Supplier Invoicing , How To