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3498816 - G/L account not determined automatically in Purchasing documents

Symptom

  • How to assign Material Group to Valuation Class?
  • How to determine GL account for "free-text based item" without material master record in purchasing documents?
  • How to assign Material to Valuation Class?
  • How to determine GL account with Material master record in purchasing documents?

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Resolution

Step1:

A.Material Group should be assigned to the Valuation Class using below steps;

  1. Go to app <Manage Your Solution>.
  2. Choose the option 'Configure Your Solution'.
  3. Choose Sub Application Area as 'Sourcing and Procurement'.
  4. Choose Application Subarea as 'Master Data'.
  5. Select the Configuration Item Name with 'Materials'.
  6. Choose the Configuration Step with name 'Entry Aids for Items Without a Material Master' (SSCUI: 101602).

 or/ and

B.Material should be assigned to Valuation Class  by using below steps;

Open the App 'Manage Product Master Data '

Open the respective Product

Go to tab 'valuation areas' 

Maintain the Valuation class

Step2:

Maintain GL Accounts against Valuation Class that you updated in Step1 using below steps;

  1. Go to app <Manage Your Solution>.
  2. Choose the option 'Configure Your Solution'.
  3. Choose Application Area as 'Finance'.
  4. Choose Sub Application Area as 'General Ledger'.
  5. Select the Configuration Item Name with 'Chart of Accounts'.
  6. Choose the Configuration Step with name 'Automatic Account Determination' (SSCUI: 100297).
  7. Choose Area as "Sourcing and procurement".
  8. Choose Parameters - 'Transaction key' for example 'EIN and 'Chart of Accounts' for example 'YCOA'.
  9. Under Account Assignments- enter GL account against respective Valuation class.

See Also

 2828996 - How to determine GL account using Material Group?

3431836 - How to create new material group and link it to G/L Account

3055239 - Default values in Purchase requisitions

Keywords

 S4HC, S4_1C, X4BC, S4_PC,GL Account empty,  , KBA , MM-FIO-PUR-REQ-SSP , Fiori UI for Self Service Procurement , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud all versions