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3508931 - Error "Change of party not permitted; contract exists on item" Raised when Changing Employee Responsible in Sales Order

Symptom

Error message "Change of party not permitted; contract exists on item 30 (KBA: 2927063) " occurs when you change the Employee responsible in a Sales Order for which a follow up Contract is created.

Environment

SAP Business Bydesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Sales Orders work center
  2. Go to Sales Orders View
  3. Search for Sales Order XYZ(XYZ represents the Sales Order ID)
  4. Edit the sales order and navigate to General Tab
  5. Change the Employee Responsible assigned to Sales Order. 
  6. You will get the error :"Change of party not permitted; contract exists on item XX(KBA: 2927063) " (XX represents the line item ID).

Cause

In this case, the change of Employee Responsible is also resulting in a change/update the Sales Unit. The system has a validation which checks if a Contract is created as a follow up of the sales order, then such modifications will not be allowed. In this case, there is a Contract which is created as follow-up of the Sales Order.

Resolution

This is the expected system behavior

Keywords

Sales Order, Party, Parties, Employee Responsible, Sales Unit, Unable, Impossible, Error, Already Exists; , KBA , AP-SLO-SO , Sales Order , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions