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3578761 - Posting not possible; referenced purchase order in supplier invoice contains values that are in approval

Symptom

Not possible to create new invoice for purchase order due to the error: Posting not possible; referenced purchase order in supplier invoice contains values that are in approval.

OR

There is dump every time trying to approve the purchase order.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Supplier Invoicing work center.
  2. Go to Invoice Entry view.
  3. Select the affected purchase order and click on New Invoice button.
  4. System drop the error: Posting not possible; referenced purchase order in supplier invoice contains values that are in approval.

OR

  1. Go to Managing My Area work center.
  2. Go to My Approvals view.
  3. Select the affected purchase order and click on Approve button.
  4. System dump.

Cause

There is a change on the purchase order output channel after the order being sent into approval. The previous output channel was Internal EDX and the current one is Printer. System don't allow one purchase order with 2 different output channels and prevent the ordering of the affected purchase order.

Resolution

Please change something on the purchase order to re-trigger the approval for this order. Then please change the output channel for purchase order by the following path:

  1. Go to the supplier master data.
  2. Go to Communication tab - Collaboration sub tab.
  3. Select Purchase Order and change the Output Channel back to Internal EDX.

Afterwards, try to approve the purchase order once again. After the approval, there will be no error when creating new invoice for the order.

See Also

3235037 - Error message "Posting not possible; referenced purchase order XYZ in supplier invoice contains values that are in approval"

3050587 - You are Getting Error on Supplier Invoice: "Posting not possible; referenced purchase order in supplier invoice contains values that are in approval"

Keywords

Posting not possible; referenced purchase order in supplier invoice contains values that are in approval; Purchase order dump, Supplier invoice cannot create , KBA , SRD-SRM-SI , Supplier Invoicing , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions