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3537083 - Unable to Scope the Question for Inventory Postings beyond 6 months

Symptom

  • The document has a date that is more than 6 months in the past.
  • In Business ByDesign, there is a restriction in place that prevents inventory postings beyond six months in the past.
  • The system throws an error while confirming the document : Actual Delivery Date must be between and today.
  • An option is available to enable postings beyond six months in the past. This can be set up in the Business Configuration of your Implementation Projects however the checkbox is greyed out

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Business Configuration work center. 
  2. Search for the relevant implementation project and choose the Edit Project Scope button. 
  3. Navigate to the Scoping section and make sure that the option Inventory Posting is selected from the sub-element Inventory Management under the scoping element Manufacturing, Warehousing and Logistics.
  4. Move to the Questions section and expand the scoping element Manufacturing, Warehousing and Logistics.
  5. Under Inventory Management select Inventory Postings. 
  6. Select the question: Do you want to extend the posting period beyond 6 months?.
  7. Here Checkbox is greyed out for the question.

Cause

To enable scoping question for posting beyond 6 months, it is necessary to mark the scoping element "Quality Assurance" as a prerequisite.

Resolution

  1. Go to the Business Configuration work center. 
  2. Search for the relevant implementation project and choose the Edit Project Scope button. 
  3. Navigate to the Adjust Scoping section and make sure that the option Quality Assurance is selected from the sub-element under the scoping element Manufacturing, Warehousing and Logistics.
  4. Once it is done, in next guided activity :Review questions -> checkbox gets enabled for question: Do you want to extend the posting period beyond 6 months?.
  5. Review the question and complete the guided activity.

See Also

2831591 - Actual Delivery Date Must Be Between DD.MM.YYYY And Today

1938088 - Changes in the Business Configuration Are Not Reflecting in the System

Keywords

Inbound Warehouse Tasks, Inventory Posting Restriction, Business Configuration, Implementation Projects, New Change Project, Quality Assurance, scoping, business configuration, inventory, Do you want to extend the posting period beyond 6 months?. , KBA , AP-IDP , Inbound Delivery Processing , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions