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3463233 - Unposted Supplier Invoice - Error: Cannot find goods or service receipt ABC for Purchase Order DEF , item DEF-Y in accounting

Symptom

Unposted Supplier Invoice with the following error message:

Cannot find goods or service receipt ABC for Purchase Order DEF, item DEF-Y in accounting.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to General Ledger Work Center > Source Documents view.
  2. Search for the unposted Supplier Invoice ID.
  3. The invoice is unposted with the following error message: Cannot find goods or service receipt ABC for Purchase Order DEF, item DEF-Y in accounting
  4. Click on Actions->View Business Transaction.
  5. See error message 'Inv. cost of material 123 bus. resid. 456 set of books 789 Date DD.MM.YYYY missing.

(123 represents the material ID. 456 represents the business residence ID. 789 represents the set of books ID. DD.MM.YYYY represents the date.)

Cause

There is no valid inventory cost maintained for the respective material 123. As a result, the related warehouse confirmation XXX is also stuck in the unposted document view.

(XXX represents the warehouse confirmation ID.)

Resolution

Maintain a valid inventory cost for material 123.

Steps:

  1. Open the master data of material 123.
  2. Navigate to the Valuation tab.
  3. Maintain a valid inventory cost on date DD.MM.YYYY.

Then the related warehouse confirmation XXX can be posted, and the supplier invoice can also be posted without errors.

Keywords

supplier invoice, goods or service receipt, business residence, valid cost, warehouse confirmation , KBA , SRD-FIN-ACC , Financial Accounting , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions