3675865 - Error “Could not determine plant from service org ABC or sales order X” in Customer Projects in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

• Issue occurs during the billing process of a customer project when using service organization X in company code Y.
• The service organization is not visible in the billing process.
• The issue does not occur when the company code number is equal to the sales organization number.

• messages appear:

  • “The plant could not be determined for item 1.”

  • “The document cannot be saved.”

  • “Sales document cannot be saved (see log).”

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

1. Open a project in Plan Customer Projects.
2. Edit the project and navigate to the Billing tab.
3. Add a product or service item (e.g., fixed-price line).
4. Attempt to save — system issues the error “Plant could not be determined for item 1.”

The error occurs when the sales organization used in the project (e.g., X) has no default delivering plant assigned in configuration.

Although the material master data may contain a plant, plant determination during document creation depends on the Sales Org / Distribution Channel / Division combination.
If this mapping is missing, SAP cannot derive the plant automatically.

Option 1 – Permanent fix (recommended):
Maintain or update the configuration to assign a default delivering plant (e.g., Y) for the affected Sales Organization (e.g., X).

Option 2 – Workaround:
Manually maintain the Delivering Plant in the Material Master for that specific Sales Org combination.

Option 3 – Alternative:
Create or extend the material under an existing Sales Org that already has a valid plant mapping.

• Refer to: 3432334 - Plant determination in sales orders - SAP for Me
• Refer to: 0003052146 - No plant is determined for sales order items or the determined plant is not the expected one
• Refer to: 3434969 - ARCHIVED Since the upgrade to CE2402 Sales Order Service raises error message: 'The plant could not be determined for item &&'

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