Network Activity Confirmation Cancellation & Goods Movement Reversal Failure

[vijji_vj]

Dear Gurus,

Greetings...!

We are experiencing an issue in our Production system, the issue is not there in our Dev & Qas system. Users do Goods Movement through activity confirmation(CN25) where they can select different materials and their quantity, after the Goods Movement(Consumption) the value will be posted to WBS element and settled to AUC.

Now what users did is they have wrongly consumed the goods and settlement was done. As users are not aware of the settlement, as settlement is done by different team and consumption is done by another team. Users tried to reverse the activity confirmation through Activity confirmation cancellation(CN29), the activity confirmation got cancelled but the goods movement is not reversed. Now we realized that settlement was done and we have reversed the settlement and the amount got reversed to WBS and Network activity subsequently.

But when I execute the report CJi3(Project actual cost line items) I can see the amount reversal but the columns Material and Total qty is empty. Now We are not able to do the Goods Movement(Consumption) reversal through CN29 and through MIGO. I have raised the same to SAP but they are asking for a reproducible example which we are not able to replicate in Dev & Qas systems.

Business now want to reverse the Consumption(Goods Movement). Please show me a way Gurus....

[vijji_vj]

Dear Gurus,

Now as I have found out the root cause. I am analyzing and found out that when we are doing the activity confirmation cancellation, in case of the posting period is locked in OKP1 the activity confirmation cancellation screen is giving us the option to change the Posting Date whereas in the case of posting period is closed from MM, the activity confirmation cancellation screen is not giving us the option to change the Posting Date and is Greyed out. Kindly advice on how to make the Posting Date field editable while activity confirmation cancellation.

Best Regards,

Vijay

[kenmelching · Accepted solution]

When a material movement is created from another transaction you cannot directly reverse the material document, you must reverse the originating transaction.

Or you can manually post the reverse movement type. The original material document won't show as reversed but the net effect will be the same.

[vijji_vj · Accepted solution]

Thank you Ken for your inputs. We have found the root cause of the issue. The MM posting period is closed and users without checking that tried the activity confirmation cancellation which resulted in the material document reversal failure. They have also deleted the entries from COGI which made us thought that it was a program error.

I have raised the same to SAP. Waiting for solution from SAP. I assume that they will also say the same as you advised. Thank you for letting us know. I appreciate it.

[vijji_vj · Accepted solution]

Thank you Ken. I am still curious about finding a way to process those entries deleted from COGI. Is there a way we can do that or can i raise the same to SAP. SAP team replied that this is a consulting issue.

Best regards,

Vijay

[Paulo_Vitoriano]

https://archive.sap.com/discussions/thread/1610402

[anitaarifin04]

Hi Vijay G,

maybe SAP Note 175842 can be solution for your case

Best regards

Anita A.

[vijji_vj]

Hi Anita,

Thank you. I have gone through the SAP Note 175842 Inspection lot: Reversal of goods movements from usage decision, but in our case the goods movement done through Network Activity confirmation whereas the note is relevant to QM usage decision. Which explains the same kind of behavior in QM.

[anitaarifin04]

Hi Vijay G,

you can try cancel material document with transaction MBST

Best regards

Anita A.

[vijji_vj]

Hi Anita,

Greetings..!

We are not able to cancel the material document through MBST or MIGO. We are getting the below error while trying to cancel through the aforementioned T-Codes.

Material document cannot be processed

Message no. M7130

Diagnosis

This material document was generated through the posting of a physical inventory document, a delivery via Shipping, or some other automatic movement (such as an order confirmation in PP or a usage decision in QM) and cannot be processed with this function.

Best regards,

Vijay.