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3602409 - Project Stock Order Can't Create Goods and Activity Confirmation

Symptom

After the consumption of the project stock order, there is a process communication error appears on the project stock order: Project Stock Order cannot create a Goods and Activity Confirmation.

The error for this process communication error is "Transaction date must be between XXXX and today".

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Project Management work center.
  2. Go to Project Stock Order - Show by Documents view.
  3. Open affected project stock order and navigate to Document Flow tab.
  4. There is already a goods and activity confirmation created, however there is process communication error on the project stock order with the error "Transaction date must be between XXXX and today".
  5. The question "Do you want to extend the posting period beyond 6 months?" is already checked in Business Configuration.

Cause

This issue happens when the time zone is UTC+12(+), e.g. NZST time zone.

Current date is converted to Next day date i.e. 12+ hours, and future dates not allowed/blocked for Account Posting. Hence Business Transaction date is throwing error message.

At project stock order side, when we select consume date, for example 24.04.2025, we convert this date value to timestamp value by adding 12.00.00 time using UTC time zone in backend. It becomes: Transaction Date Time 2025-04-24T12:00:00Z UTC in backend, which we send through payload to Inventory Processing. At Inventory Processing side, this Transaction Date Time is again converted to NZST(UTC+12) time zone date i.e. 25.04.2025. (2025-04-24T12:00:00Z + 12 hours) and this date is comparing with local date i.e. 24.04.2025. Due to the transaction date cannot be in future, system is not allowing GAC posting to Accounting further.

Resolution

The error message will be automatically restarted by the next day. If not, please raise a case to SAP for a manual restart.

The permanent fix is under progress and will be provided in future release.

Keywords

Project Stock Order, Process Communication Error, Cannot Create a Goods and Activity Confirmation, Goods and Activity Confirmation Not Posted , KBA , SRD-PRO-PMN , Project Management , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions