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3416204 - Process Communication Error - "Document date DD-MM-YYY is not within the validity period of tax reporting unit AA" occurred in the Supplier Invoice

Symptom

Process Communication error occurred in the Supplier Invoice XYZ. ('XYZ' refers to Supplier Invoice ID)

Error: "Document date DD-MM-YYY is not within the validity period of tax reporting unit AA". ('AA' refers to Tax reporting unit ID)

Environment

SAP Business By Design.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Supplier Invoicing work center.
  2. Go to Invoice and Credit memos sub view.
  3. Search for the Supplier Invoice XYZ. ('XYZ' refers to Supplier Invoice ID)
  4. Go to the document flow you will see the Process Communication error.

Error message: "Document date DD-MM-YYY is not within the validity period of Tax reporting unit AA". ('AA' refers to Tax reporting unit ID)

 

Cause

On checking the Tax reporting unit 'AA' under the Organizational Structure, the validity period is 01.02.9999/Unlimited, and in the respective Supplier Invoice 'XYZ' the document date is 01.01.9999. Hence it's a mismatch.

Because the validity period starting from is later than the maintained Document date.

Please note: Above mentioned dates are the examples for reference.

Resolution

Try to correct the Document date of the Supplier Invoice XYZ by following the below mentioned steps.

  1. Go to the Supplier Invoicing work center.
  2. Go to the Invoice and Credit memos sub view.
  3. Search for the Supplier Invoice 'XYZ'.
  4. Select Edit.
  5. Try to change the document date which should come within the timeline of the validity period maintained in the Tax reporting unit 'AA' .
  6. Click Save.

Once the changes done sent the Incident back to SAP Technical Support, so that the failed XI message from the backend will be reprocessed to clear the Process Communication error occurred in the Supplier Invoice 'XYZ'.

See Also

"KBA - 3319544 - Tax Reporting Unit is not Determined while trying to post the Supplier Invoice"

Keywords

Process Communication Error, SupplierInvoiceProcessing,  AccountingInvoiceAccountingIn, Document date ,  Tax reporting unit. , KBA , AP-ACC , Business ByDesign: Financial Accounting , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2311