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Diagnosis

This message is issued in two cases:

The quantity for which you are entering the invoice is greater than the difference between the quantity delivered and quantity invoiced to date.

The invoice is for a service item for which an invoice has already been posted.

Note: This message category can be changed in Customizing for Invoice Verification. This means that you can receive an error message even though the message is defined in the standard system as a warning message.
The following documentation only deals with the standard case.

System Response

The system has established that the product (Quantity invoiced - quantity to be invoiced) * Order price is greater than the tolerance set in the Customizing system for quantity variance.

In the case of purchase-order-based invoice verification, the system blocks the invoice for payment with the blocking reason "Quantity variance".

Procedure

Check your entries and make any necessary corrections.

Goods-Receipt based Invoice Verification

Conventional Invoice Verification

The system will not allow the quantity to be posted. For this reason, you can only post the invoice as a subsequent debit. If you want to do this, enter the appropriate subsequent debit indicator in the field Subsequent debit.

Logistics Invoice Verification

If you post the document in spite of the variance, the system makes the posting and the associated account movements. However, the document will contain a block indicator, which will not allow it to be paid.

Purchase-Order-based Invoice Verification

If you post the document in spite of the variance, the system will carry out the posting and the associated account movements. However, the document will contain a block indicator, which will not allow it to be paid.

Invoice for a service

When one invoice has been posted for a service item, the item is considered to be settled. If you receive a second invoice for the item, you can only enter this as a subsequent debit. Enter the appropriate subsequent debit indicator in the field Subsequent debit.