3664755 - Partner Company ID Field is Blank For Some Journal Entry Line Items

In a journal entry created for a supplier invoice, the Partner Company ID field is blank for some of the journal entry line items.

KBA scope:

• journal entry for a supplier invoice.
• journal entry line items with Item Details: Other Direct Costs.

SAP Business ByDesign

1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
2. Go to the Journal Entries view.
3. Open the respective journal entry for the given supplier invoice.
4. Under Line Items section, notice that the Partner Company ID field is derived for some line items with Item Details: Other Direct Costs but not for all, even when the line items are for the same G/L Account.

For example:

Line item 1:

Debit Record for G/L Account ABC (ABC means the G/L Account) -> Item Details: Other Direct Costs 

Partner Company ID field is derived.

Line item 2: 

Debit Record for G/L Account ABC -> Item Details: Other Direct Costs 

Partner Company ID field is not derived.

The system is deriving Partner Company ID only when the project/project task displayed in Item Details: Other Direct Costs in the journal entry line item is non-billable.

For billable customer projects, the focus is on customer billing, and the partner company will not be displayed.

For non-billable internal projects or cross-company cost allocations, the partner company is often shown since the focus is on internal distribution of effort/cost.

The system is behaving as designed. The Partner Company ID field will be derived when the project/project task is non-billable.

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