Conversion Factor Error - ME 897

[Former Member]

Hi Gurus,

I am posting this error after searching many related errors in sap scn and other places but none of them were close to my issue.

Issue which I am facing is there is an existing scheduling agreement in system and for that existing agreement few new line items are getting added through an IDOC type - BLAORD. As scheduling agreement is coming from some other system via an IDOC.

Now IDOC is getting failed with error - 'conversion factor could not be determined' message number ME897. Since this inbound IDOC is associated with SAP AIF so which line item has exact issue is not visible and there are close to 1000 line items in agreement.

Though, at initial check I see base unit of measurement and order unit of measurement conversion ratio is maintained for almost all material.

Could I have any suggestion on this if anyone has faced similar issue.

[JL23]

Sometimes like and like is not the same.

I don't know how you checked but I assume you made the standard fault that is made with units of measures.

BLAORD Idoc carries usually ISO codes instead of plain units of measures.

Hence the value found in the Idoc is used to lookup T006-ISOCODE where the field T006-PRIMARY is active.

You may have several units which have the same T006-ISOCODE, but only the one with the flag for PRIMARY is the unit that is used to post in your system.

So you might eventually have a unit switch and for this determined unit you have no value in MARM.

[Former Member]

Hi Jurgen,

Thanks for your reply and suggestion.I have checked all materials which are present in EKPO and for those materials all units are also maitained in MARM.

Still issue is there.

[JL23]

Not sure what help you want, we can't access your system and can't complete your check

"maintained for almost all material" is just not good enough.

You have to make sure that you have MARM entries for all units that you have in your EKPO record