SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3440768 - Reopening of Closed Lease Contracts

Symptom

  1. Requirement to reopen a Lease Contract to release Supplier Invoices.
  2. There is no option to reopen the lease contract.
  3. The lease posting run itself cannot be reversed due to an error. 

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Supplier Invoicing Work Center - invoices and credit memos view.
  2. Show all documents, search for XXX (where XXX is the Supplier Invoice ID).
  3. Press Edit.
  4. Press view all.
  5. Switch to tab exceptions.
    You can see error: 
    Lease contract YYY is not in release status (where YYY is the lease contract ID).

then

  1. Go to the Lease Contract Management Work Center - lease posting run view.
  2. Show all lease valuation posting run, filter for run ID ZZZ (where ZZZ is the lease posting run ID).
  3. Under Execution Details press reverse.
  4. Press set to active.
    You can see error:
    Lease Contract YYY for Latest version is closed. 

Cause

Help Center documentation Lease Contract Quick Guide  under the section: Close a contract. It states: A closed lease contract can’t be opened again.

Resolution

This is the current and correct system behaviour.

Keywords

lease, lease contract, reopen closed lease contract, exception in supplier invoice, lease contract for latest version is closed, lease contract is not in release status, supplier invoice , KBA , SRD-FIN-FA , Fixed Assets , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions