Symptom
An error occurs while creating supplier invoice based on a purchase order.
'Posting of invoice not possible due to error in financial accounting; Financials assignment for Material MM/business residence BR not specified'
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to Supplier Invoicing Work Center.
- Navigate to Invoice Entry View.
- Filter for All Orders to Be Invoiced.
- Search for the purchase order you wish and select the line.
- Choose New Invoice button.
- Click on check button, then the mentioned error would occur.
Cause
You are performing a business scenario that is not supported by the current system.
- Open the Purchase order.
- Go to the General Tab, then you notice that the buying company is BC.
- Go to the Items Tab.
- Select the line of the material MM.
- Navigate to the Delivery Sub-tab and observe that the Requester OR is from the buying company BC, while the Recipient IR belongs to the business residence BR of Business Partner BP.
- Open the master data for the material MM.
- Go to the Valuation Tab and understand that the buying company BC can only be linked to its own business residences, not other business residences like BR of Business Partner BP.
From Financial perspective, posting supplier invoice is based on the valuation data available in the material for the company and business residence combination. Therefore, the mentioned error occurs as expected.
Resolution
Although this scenario is created without errors during the new purchase order phase, it is not supported in Financials. Therefore, please ensure that both the Recipient and the Requester are employees of the buying company in the purchase order.
See Also
2068664 - "Financials assignment for Material XYZ/business residence ABC(ABC Description) not specified"
Keywords
Posting, Invoice, Not Possible, Accounting, Financial, Assignment, Material, Business Residence, Specified, Buying Company, Recipient, Requester , KBA , AP-SIP-SIV , Supplier Invoice , How To