You may receive a "costs for this transaction have been applied to a manufacturing job" error message when you enter a purchase order return in Microsoft Great Plains (904037)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains Manufacturing Order Processing, when used with:
    • Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains 7.5
    • Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains 8.0

SYMPTOMS

You may receive the following error message in Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains:
"The costs for this transaction have been applied to a manufacturing job and won't be removed if you continue. Do you want to continue or cancel?"
This symptom occurs when the following conditions are true:
  • You enter a purchase order return in Purchase Order Processing.
  • The purchase order return that you entered is linked to a specific job in the Manufacturing module.

CAUSE

The current purchase order return functionality of Microsoft Great Plains does not let you link to a specific job in the Manufacturing module.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, manually unapply the document in the Job Link Maintenance window.

To do this, follow these steps:
  1. When you receive the error message, click Continue.
  2. Click Transactions, click Manufacturing, and then click Job Link Maint.
  3. Click Linked Transaction, locate the document from the Linked Transaction list, and then right-click the document.
  4. Click Change, and then click Unapply.
  5. Close the window.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:9/7/2005
Keywords:kberrmsg kbMBSMigrate kbprb KB904037 kbAudEndUser
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