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3689896 - Error: Negative stock not permitted While Releasing Outbound Delivery

Symptom

While releasing Outbound Delivery, error message appears as "Negative stock not permitted".

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Outbound Logistics Work center.
  2. Go to Outbound Deliveries view.
  3. Search for relevant Outbound Delivery ID ABC (ABC represents Outbound delivery ID).
  4. Choose Release.
  5. The error occurs "Negative stock not permitted".

Cause

  • The Outbound Delivery for product ABC initially released with quantity X, where the stock is assigned using labels without identified stock.
  • Later, the same Outbound Delivery is Undo Released. During Adjustment Confirmation, the quantity increased from X to Y by assigning additional labels in the Assigned Labels tab.
  • The newly added labels for product ABC contain identified stock, while the originally assigned labels contain non-identified stock.
  • During Adjustment Confirmation, combining identified and non-identified stock in the same line item caused the system to convert all stock to identified stock, resulting in Y units of identified stock in the Outbound Delivery.
  • However, the Stock Overview for product ABC does not contain sufficient identified stock quantity (Y).
  • Therefore, when attempting to release the Outbound Delivery, the system throws an error due to insufficient identified stock.

(Where ABC is the Product id, X and Y indicates quantity of product ABC).

Resolution

  1. Go to Outbound Logistics Work Center.
  2. Go to By Warehouse Order sub view under Monitoring view.
  3. Search Warehouse Order DEF (DEF represents the warehouse Order ID).
  4. Choose Adjustment Confirmation.
  5. Instead of adding labels with identified stock in the same line, add them in a separate line using split quantities.

Keywords

negative stock error, outbound delivery release, SAP Business ByDesign, adjustment confirmation, identified stock, logistics area, backend correction, warehouse order, goods issue, split quantities. , KBA , AP-ODP , Outbound Delivery Processing , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions