Symptom
For a Purchase Order, the system does not allow the releasing of budget for multiple years
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
Go to the Purchase Requests and Orders work center
Purchase orders
Select the Purchase order - DEF(DEF refers to the purchase order id)
In the delivery dates, it has dates for the next 3 years
You can see that the budget check is for the current year as you expect that it it take multiple years with line items 2 and 3 in future years
Cause
The system helps you perform budget checks at release, approval, or change of purchase order or a manual supplier invoice, against the available budget at the granularity of cost center, budget category, and year to period (YTP) of available budget.
Resolution
It is possible to set up the budget only for a year time and not beyond that. This is a standard system behavior
Keywords
KBA , AP-POP-PO , Purchase Order , Problem
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