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3400545 - Price variance exception is not triggered on supplier invoice

Symptom

You notice there is price variance between supplier invoice and purchase order, however system does not trigger the price variance exception as expected.

Instead, it is showing as a warning message and won't block the posting.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Supplier Invoicing work center.
  2. Go to Invoices and Credit Memos view.
  3. Open the affected supplier invoice ABC (ABC represents the invoice ID).
  4. You find there is price variance between supplier invoice and purchase order, however system only shows warning message and invoice status is showing as Ready For Posting, not Exception.

Cause

If you go to Business Configuration, and open activity 'Supplier Invoice Exceptions', and navigate to Exception Type 'Price Variance', you will see the Exception Criteria only contains 'Variance Higher Than', which means the exception 'The average net price XXX for 1 UoM is greater than the price YYY of purchase order ABC. Rounding differences are possible.' will only be triggered when supplier invoice price XXX is greater than purchase order price YYY. If XXX<YYY, then system will only trigger warning message to the user instead.

Resolution

This is currently system design.

Keywords

Price variance, Exception, Warning, The average net price for is greater than the price of purchase order. Rounding differences are possible. , KBA , SRD-SRM-SI , Supplier Invoicing , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions