Material Price cannot be deterimied

[Former Member]

Hi,

Good day to all,

I want to do external purchase of some components via a PM order. So I've created a PM order and entered the material in Components tab with Item Category = N (non stock) and entered all the required information for purchasing. But then comes the error message "Price cannot be determined for material xxxxxxxxx Message no. CO283". The material has a contract and its entered in source list as well as "Fixed". Basically thats the only source of the materil. Then, why doesn't the system pick the contract up?

Please guide.

Cheers

Deepal

[peter_atkin · Accepted solution]

What is the full message text?

PeteA

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Pete,

the message is Price cannot be determined for material <material no> and the message no is CO283, It comes just after entering component details such as item category (=N) in PM Order, and then a PR is created with out a source.

Cheers

Deepal

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

To my knowledge this error is related to account assignment category.

What is the account assignment category in PR. It should be F - Order. If not then you have to check your configuration.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi tejasg,

There is nothing wrong with the Account Assignment category. It is F. And its automatically picked up by the system. For further information please find the details of the steps I followed.

1. Created the PM Order (IW31)

2. In the Components Tab, entered the material and selected Item Category (IC) "N"

3. Then the system gave the message "Price cannot be determined for material <material no>" where the message no is " CO283"

4. I clicked ok and saved the PM order

5. when I checked the order (in IW32) found out that the PR has been created

6. But the PR was "with out a source"

7. Then I clicked the "Assign Source" button in Source of Supply tab in PR

8. upon the click, the source was picked up automatically

Before all these I have maintained a contract for the material and entered the contract in source list as "Fixed". Now my question is why cant the system pick the source at PM order level and create the PR with the source attached?

Cheers

Deepal

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Deepal,

In Transaction OKP8, For the valuation variant associated to the costing variant, check and make sure that the strategy sequence associated to the Material valuation is fulfilled for the Non stock material in question.

Regard

Narasimhan.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Narasimhan,

Thanks for the reply. would you please explain a little as to how to do the settings there for non stock material? Because I cant figure out what's missing there.

Cheers

Deepal

[peter_atkin · Accepted solution]

Also check that the operation dates are consistent with the contract.

Try manually creating a PR or PO and entering the same material details..

PeteA

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Pete,

Dates are fine and manually it works. As I explained in my steps, even after PR been created from the PM Order if I click Assign Source button in PR itself, the contract is automatically picked. So dates are fine, there s someting wrong with setting in PM end.

Cheers

Deepal

[peter_atkin · Accepted solution]

Deepal,

Waht happens if you enter the material in the order without the contract details?

PeteA

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Pete,

I dont enter the contract in the PM Order. Thats what I want the system to pick when creating the PR. Because there is only one source of supply for the material. If I enter the contract in the PM Order the price and vendor is picked. But practically maintenence users cannot be expected to know the contract details.

Cheers

Deepal

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Deepal,

You will have to use the User exit COZF0002 to automatically assign the Contract to the PR. I dont think you could customise that functionality.

Regards

Narasimhan