Some SAP Users and Consultants might be asking “how the system determines the posting date of depreciation during AFAB transaction“. I would be happy to share my understanding and analysis of the process. In SAP standard generally, the asset accounting uses the same fiscal year variants as in financial accounting. Let’s say for example, your [...]

Error Message: “Bank details have not been entered, payment method C cannot be used”. Analysis and Diagnosis: The above error message have occured during posting of payment to vendor through transaction F-58. The payment method entered is C (check payment). Bank details have not been entered for the business partner, so the selected payment method [...]

There are times you commit mistakes in creating general ledger account master record. Instead of creating it as P&L account sometimes it’s created as Balance Sheet account (& vise-versa). More often than not, that mistake of g/l account setting becomes apparent only and notice when there are already posted transactions to the account. The SAP [...]

Before actual transactions are carried out in SAP asset management, all the required set-up should be done first. Otherwise, if the set-up is incomplete the user(s) would end-up encountering some errors. One of the common errors encountered is related to asset number range interval.  Example of the error message is “Number range 01 not in the number allocation [...]

Error Message: E698 SYST: Abnormal termination (ANLB-LGJAN 1 not equal to ANLC-GJAHR) Analysis: I’ve encountered this error during Legacy Asset Data Transfer using transaction code AS91.  The client current fiscal year is 2009 and takeover date of the legacy asset should be the last day of fiscal year 2008. As indicated in the error message the tables affected [...]