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2943805 - Alternative Item in Sales Quote not copied to Sales Order

Symptom

 The Alternative Item in a Sales Quote is not copied to the Sales Order created from the Quote.

Environment

SAP Sales Cloud

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Sales workcenter.
  2. Go to the Sales Quotes view.
  3. Create a Sales Quote with an Item ABC and an Alternative Item DEF (ABC and DEF stand for the Product name).
  4. Go to the Sales Documents facet.
  5. Click New to create a Sales Order from the Sales Quote.
  6. Open the new Sales Order.

Result: Only the item ABC has been copied to the Sales Order.

Cause

The alternative product will only be copied to the Sales Order if the other product is not available.

Resolution

This is the designed behaviour.

Keywords

alternative, product, item, sales quote, sales order , KBA , LOD-LE-CQP-CO , Lean Sales Orders , Problem

Product

SAP Cloud for Customer add-ins all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer core applications all versions