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Monday, April 30, 2012

Error Message 8W321 - Top node XXXX for ship-to YYYY not maintained or ship-to is not valid (IS-AFS)

When try to create a sales order in SAP AFS with multiple ship to parties, I am getting below error message.

Top node XXXX for ship-to YYYY not maintained or ship-to is not valid

Message no. 8W321

But when I check my customer master (Sold to party) "A300", I can see the ship to party "A100" is assigned as Ship to party. But still in the sales order screen I cannot assign "A100" as the ship to party.

Reason: This is a standard behavior in SAP AFS due to an additional check introduced by SAP for AFS.

Click here to read how you can activate this check by sales organization.


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Author: Anupa Wijesinghe
Error Message 8W321 - Top Node XXXX for Ship-To YYYY Not Maintained or Ship-To is Not Valid (is-AFS)

Sunday, April 22, 2012

How to add custom help menu to SAP main menu bar

Let' say you have a web based custom help desk service to handle your SAP issues. All users are supposed to log in to the support web application and log their issues there.
Calling the help desk web address directly through SAP help menu bar is a very handy tool for end users, as it saves their time.
It is same as calling SAP service market place web address directly through SAP menu bar. (Help / SAP Service Marketplace)

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How to Add Custom Help Menu to SAP Main Menu Bar

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Enhance VA05 report selection screen for Ship To Party

The standard "List of sales orders" report (VA05) can only be executed based on the sold to party. But for certain business requirements it is necessary to execute same report based on the ship to party. Today we can see the button option "Partner Function" in the VA05 selection screen. But only "Sold to Party" partner function is available as a selection option.
But you can enhance the VA05 report to include "Ship to Party" as a selection criterion using below mentioned configuration steps.
If you want to add further selection criteria (Eg: Division, Sales document type, etc) to VA05 selection, please check this link.

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Enhance VA05 Report Selection Screen for Ship to Party

Monday, April 2, 2012

How to schedule MMPV as a batch job to open/close MM periods

Some time back we discussed about how to open and close MM periods in SAP. (Click here to see that) This action has to be executed at the beginning of every month. Therefore some businesses prefer to have a scheduled batch job to do this task automatically.
Below mentioned steps can be used to schedule MMPV transaction in background as a batch job. With this system will automatically close the previous month and open the current month.

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How to Schedule MMPV as a Batch Job to Open Close MM Periods