SAP ABAP Message Class C+ Message Number 752 (Input quantities are reduced to avoid negative price in the proc. alt.)
Hierarchy
☛ BBPCRM (Software Component) BBPCRM
   ⤷ CRM (Application Component) Customer Relationship Management
     ⤷ CRM_APPLICATION (Package) All CRM Components Without Special Structure Packages
       ⤷ CKML (Package) Material ledger
Attribute
Message class C+  
Short Description Material ledger messages    
Message Number 752  
Documentation status       Space: object requires documentation
Authorization check Error Message      
Changed On 20130531   
Message Text
Input quantities are reduced to avoid negative price in the proc. alt.
Help Document

Diagnosis

You are attempting to perform multi-level material price determination. A negative price, however, was calculated in currency/valuation for procurement alternative (internal number ). This occurs if all of the following are true:

  1. The output material's standard price, which was used for prelminary valuation, varies significantly from the actual price for the period.
  2. The costs are contained in an order. Costs from an order are not updated in the Material Ledger and therefore are not considered during material valuation.
  3. The system calculates a large change in the periodic unit price (as compared to the standard price) of the actual input materials.

System Response

The system does not allow a negative price.

Because you set the indicator Reduced actual BOM in the selection screen, the system is now trying to calculate a positive price for the procurement alternative by using a reduced input quantity. First, price determination is repeated using the smaller of the two quantities - target and actual. If the error occurs again, price determination is repeated with an input quantity of zero.

Procedure

  1. Check the price determination document for the material. It contains the quantity used to settle the material.
  2. Check the period in question to see if orders exist that have to be settled periodically and were not yet settled. If there are orders that need to be settled:
    1. Settle the orders.
    2. Repeat single-level price determination.
    3. Repeat multi-level price determination.

If you do not use any orders that need to be settled periodically, but you do use production orders that can only be settled after final delivery, you will have to accept the changes made by the system to the input quantities in order to be able to perfrom multi-level material price determination.

Procedure for System Administration

History
Last changed on/by 20140121  SAP 
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