How To Fix 9J091 - Customer must be a sold-to party

9J091 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: 9J -

• Message number: 091

• Message text: Customer must be a sold-to party

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message 9J091 - Customer must be a sold-to party ?

  The SAP error message 9J091 ("Customer must be a sold-to party") typically occurs in the context of sales and distribution processes when a transaction is being processed that requires a customer to be designated as a "sold-to party," but the customer specified does not meet this requirement.
  
  Cause:
  
  Customer Master Data: The customer in question is not set up as a sold-to party in the customer master data. In SAP, customers can have different roles (e.g., sold-to party, ship-to party, bill-to party, etc.), and the system requires that the customer involved in a sales transaction be designated as a sold-to party.
  Transaction Type: The transaction being processed (e.g., sales order, quotation) may specifically require a sold-to party, and the customer selected does not fulfill this requirement.
  Data Entry Error: There may be a mistake in the data entry where the wrong customer number is being used.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  
  Check Customer Master Data:
  
  Go to the customer master data