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3641831 - Item Quantity Schedule is Overwritten When New Line is Added to the Same Line Item in an Opportunity.

Symptom

  • A user adds a new schedule line for a future year (e.g., 2026) to an existing product line item that already has a quantity schedule.
  • The system does not create a completely new, independent schedule line.
  • Instead, the system overwrites or consolidates the existing schedule lines, causing the previous entries to be lost or modified.

Environment

SAP Cloud for Customer

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Open an existing Opportunity (or Sales Quote/Order) in the C4C UI.
  2. Navigate to the Products facet and select a line item that already has a quantity schedule.
  3. Go to the Item Quantity Schedule sub-tab. Note the existing schedule lines (e.g., a line for 2025).
  4. Click Add or edit the schedule to add a new entry for a future period (e.g., a new line for 2026).
  5. Save the changes.
  6. The user expects to see both the 2025 and 2026 lines as separate, independent entries.
  7. The system instead displays a consolidated schedule, often replacing the original 2025 line with the new 2026 entry or a combined total.

 

Cause

This is the expected and standard system behavior in SAP C4C. The Item Quantity Schedule is designed to manage a single, consolidated delivery plan for a specific product line item. The system enforces data integrity by ensuring that the sum of all schedule lines always equals the total quantity of the parent line item.

When a new schedule line is added, the system does not view it as a separate plan. It triggers a re-evaluation of the entire schedule, consolidating the new entry with the existing data to maintain a single, accurate view of the delivery plan.

In case of migration: The observed exception, where a manual line does not overwrite a migrated line, is a result of data inconsistencies from a migration process and is not a feature of the standard UI.

Resolution

To manage separate and independent delivery schedules for the same product, the user must create separate line items in the sales document.

Correct Process:

  1. Create the first line item for the product and set its total quantity and schedule (e.g., Line Item 10 for 2025).
  2. Add the same product as a new, separate line item (e.g., Line Item 20 for 2026).
  3. Set the total quantity and create a new, independent schedule for this second line item.

This approach ensures that each year's schedule is treated as a distinct business transaction, preventing the system from consolidating or overwriting the schedules.

Keywords

Item Quantity Schedule, Overwritten, Scheduling, Opportunity, Item Quantity, Line Item, Item 10, Item 20 , Quantity Schedule , KBA , LOD-CRM-OPP , Opportunity Management , Problem

Product

SAP Cloud for Customer core applications 2508