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3802194 - BG SAF-T Monthly report generated with error

Symptom

Errors occur during BG SAF-T Monthly report generation; the XML output is not generated correctly.

  • Error: Element nsSAFT:Customer occurs 0 times. Number of occurrences must be >= 1. nsSAFT:Customer
  • Error: Element nsSAFT:Supplier occurs 0 times. Number of occurrences must be >= 1. nsSAFT:Supplier

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Statutory Reports app.
  2. Run the BG SAF-T monthly report (Report ID: BG_SAFT_MONTH).
  3. Observe that the report is generated with errors:
    Element nsSAFT:Customer occurs 0 times. Number of occurrences must be >= 1. nsSAFT:Customer
    Error: Element nsSAFT:Supplier occurs 0 times. Number of occurrences must be >= 1. nsSAFT:Supplier

Cause

Missing configuration of SAF-T-specific tax number categories in Business Partner master data, leading to empty CustomerID/SupplierID in the SAF-T XML.

Resolution

Using the tax categories in the Maintain Business Partner app, you can define, how your business partners' master data appears in the SAF-T report.

  1. Run the Maintain Business Partner app.
  2. In the Display in BP Role, select Business Partner (Gen.)
  3. Define the tax categories for suppliers (BG8) and customers (BG9).
    On the Identification tab, in the Tax Number table, maintain the Tax Number Long field accordingly for each category:

    • Enter customer/supplier ID, for it to be included in the master file and in the transactional data (General Ledger Entries and Source Documents).

    • Enter EXCLUDE, for the customer/supplier to be excluded from the master file.

      In the transactional data, the customer/supplier ID is replaced with the entity ID (VAT Registration Number).

    • Enter 0 for One-Time customer/vendor.

      In the master file, the customer/supplier ID is derived from the One-Time customer/vendor data in the BSEC table.

 

See Also

Keywords

BG SAF-T, Bulgaria, statutory reports, nsSAFT:Customer occurs 0 times, nsSAFT:Supplier occurs 0 times, missing CustomerID, missing SupplierID, BG_SAFT_MONTH, Business Partner, tax number categories, BG8, BG9, SAF-T XML, missing nodes , KBA , FI-LOC-SAF-BG , Bulgaria , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions