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3463923 - For a Purchase Order, the system does not allow the releasing of budget for multiple years

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

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions