STO reversal error (Purchase order)

[Former Member]

Hi experts, PO created with document type UB From source plant GI done with OBD and at receiving plant goods receipt done using purchase order and stock posted in quality stock. The stock is moved to unrestricted from quality using inspection lot. Now trying to reverse material document using PO and movement type 102 getting error "Goods receipt posting cancelled due to negative in transit stock" Here we don't have UD reversal trasaction... that is using PO trying to cancel the GR document.. Any idea how to fix this error..

[ajitkumar · Accepted solution]

It appears this message is from customization done at your end

[JL23]

As already assumed, this is not standard, this is homemade and amateurish programming style. Contact your own IT department to get your issue solved

[Former Member]

Dear All,

We have debugged it, found that it is Zcustomized message and logic need to corrected.. Thanks a lot for you all...

[raghug]

Jürgen, you are being quite harsh on the programming style - don't you know it is the modern minimalistic style? Leave a lot of white space - very artistic - kind of like this website 🙂 Jokes aside, and yes, that popup is pretty amateurish...

I have seen this sort of error before. I think what is happening is that when attempting to do the reversal, the stock that is being looked for is the restricted quality stock and not the stock which is now unrestricted. Even native SAP is not going to allow this. I think the standard SAP response for this situation is to initiate a formal returns process. The thought here is that if the material was received and then went through the quality process successfully, then there is much more to do than just reverse the transaction. You will potentially have to reverse billing, initiate processes related to a vendor giving you bad material, etc... That begs the question - why is there a quality process turned on for an STO? Is there any inter-plant billing? What is the inter-plant accounting when goods get sent back? Is there a transportation charge? etc.

[Former Member]

There is no message number, after clicking on tick mark I am getting out of the screen.....

[JL23]

Can you post the error message number, I can't remember having seen this message before, and even Google is not able to find this message.

And the message does not make much sense either, as a cancellation of the receipt to a STO would actually add stock into transit, so it can't become negative by this posting.