Account Assignment Error When Posting GI Against Sales Order

[Former Member]

Hello SAP Experts,

We are currently experiencing a problem during goods issueance against sales order (VL02N). The system terminates the issueance and gives error:

"Account XXXXXX requires an assignment to a CO object".

We have tried maintaining the GL account in OKB9 and assign a default profit center there but i didn't work. The material master also contains the profit center. We were only able to post the transaction if we try to default the a cost center in FS00. However we dont want to assign a default cost center as cost centers differ by plant. We are wondering why it asks the cost center considering that it already contains the sales order assignment. We checked the field selection of the GL account, movement type and even the posting key and all showed that the cost center is not required. We are now in a dead end situation here. Please please help us.

Thanks in advance!

[raghavendra_praveen · Accepted solution]

Hi

It means you created this GL account as a cost element (check in KA02 transaction whether cost element exists or not). For all cost element postings we need to assign a CO object like cost centre, WBS element, order etc. Check with your FI consultant and assign default CO object in OKB9 Tcode.

Thanks

Edited by: Praveen Raghavendra on Mar 6, 2009 2:26 PM

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Praveen,

Thank you for your immediate response.

What confuses me is the fact that it asks for a CO element when in fact it is already assigned to one (it is goods issuance against sales order). Do you know why is the system behaving that way?

Thanks!.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

you can assign default cost cneter to a g/l account plant wise and for that ask your Fi CO consultant to do so by going in the IMG-controlling module

[raghavendra_praveen · Accepted solution]

Hi

I hope you need to assign cost centre, order or any other account assignment objects like WBS element as CO object but not the sales order. Please check with your FI consultnat. Tcode is OKB9.

Thanks