Symptom
Supplier Invoices approval tasks are triggered , without any active approval process being set up in the system.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to Supplier Invoicing work center
- Go to Invoice entry view
- Create an invoice with respect to desired Purchase order
- Once the Supplier Invoice is successfully created, an approval task it triggered
- This Invoice was created on date DD.MM.YYYY
Cause
This is the expected system behaviour.
The invoice creation date is DD.MM.YYYY
In Application and User Management work center -> Approval Processes view -> All Processes -> search for the Supplier Invoice ID -> the Supplier Invoice default approval process was modified on DD.MM.YYYY and it was activate on that day. On the same date the Supplier Invoices were created. Hence , the Invoices created in the active duration of the approval process were sent to approval.
Resolution
As the approval process was active on date DD.MM.YYYY , the date on which Invoices were created, approval task is triggered. This is the expected behavior.
Keywords
Approval task triggered for supplier invoice, approval task created without active approval process, supplier invoice approval task created , KBA , SRD-SRM-SI , Supplier Invoicing , Problem