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3523385 - Error - "Price change interval (MM. YYYY) has closed periods in company set of books" while changing the planning group of the material 'ABC'

Symptom

Not able to change the planning group of the material 'ABC' due to the error:

Price change interval (MM. YYYY) has closed periods in company set of books.

MM refers to the Month.

YYYY refers to the Year.

'ABC' refers to the Material ID

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Product Portfolio work center.
  2. Go to the Products sub view.
  3. Search for the relevant material 'ABC' and navigate to the "Planning" tab.
  4. Select the Planning Area and try to change the planning group id from 'AAA' to 'BBB'
  5. Give "Save".
  6. The error appears.

Error: Price change interval (MM. YYYY) has closed periods in company set of books.

Cause

This error usually occurs due to that particular material where you do not have stock you may have able to change the material cost and validity. But for material which still have stock during the mentioned periods, the stock has to be revaluated with new cost and the revaluation will create Journal Entry in the system. Currently all those periods are closed for posting 

And the suggestion for the periods which have been already closed is to open it again, but if in case the accounting period/year mentioned in the error message is two or three years past from the current year and you don't want to open the previous years because for that year financial statements have been audited and completed already and opening that year again may affect the G/L balances.

In this case changing the planning group of the material 'ABC' is not possible from the UI.

 

Resolution

You have to create a case to SAP Technical Support with your permission in order to change the Planning group for the material 'ABC' by skipping the revaluation method from the backend without any inconsistencies.

Once the correction done from the backend, the planning group of the material 'ABC' will be changed in UI without any errors. 

Please note: This correction applies only if you don't want to open the past years.

See Also

KBA - "https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2920511"

Keywords

Price Change interval, Material, Planning group, Revaluation, Accounting period/year. , KBA , SRD-FIN-INV , Inventory , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2408