Changed master data is not updated to existing sales documents

[SAPSupport]

Hello,
Is there a way to update the Seller party and Invoicing Unit party address on already in process Sales Contract?
For other parties (For example Sales Unit) manual or dummy update is possible but not for these two.

Since Seller party and Invoicing Unit party addresses are still old/incorrect for older contracts and the new contracts have the new/correct address, acts this as a splitting reason for customer invoices, when several contracts are tried to invoiced with one invoice.

Please let us know if any further info is needed in order to solve this case.

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[SAPSupport · Accepted solution]

Dear customer,

The changes of the master data such as addresses/name for Seller Party, Invoicing Unit etc. are not dynamically updated by the system because in some cases it is necessary to keep the old data for existing sales documents (in this case, sales contracts) or sales documents which are based on existing sales documents.

This is the standard system behavior.

To trigger the changes in the master data in sales documents you have to remove the master data e.g. the business partner and enter it again in your sales document.

For more information on this issue, please kindly check KBA 1508411 - Changed Master Data Are Not Taken Over Dynamically In Existing Sales Documents And New Doc...

Best Regards,

Marcelo
SAP Product Support