How To Fix EI157 - No incompleteness procedure maintained for area & and &

EI157 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: EI - Foreign Trade: Gen. Output

• Message number: 157

• Message text: No incompleteness procedure maintained for area & and &

What causes this issue?

You have attempted to call up the display help for the incompletion
procedures for the area &V1& at level &V2&.
No incompletion procedure has yet been defined for this combination
area &V1& - level &V2& in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for foreign
trade.

System Response

The system issues an information line.

How to fix this error?

Maintain a suitable incompletion procedure in the IMG for foreign trade
activity "Control foreign trade data in MM and SD documents".

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message EI157 - No incompleteness procedure maintained for area & and & ?

  The SAP error message EI157 "No incompleteness procedure maintained for area & and &" typically occurs in the context of the SAP system when there is an attempt to process a document or transaction that requires an incompleteness procedure, but none has been defined for the specified area.
  
  Cause:
  
  Missing Incompleteness Procedure: The primary cause of this error is that the incompleteness procedure has not been defined for the specific area (e.g., sales area, purchasing organization, etc.) in the configuration settings.
  Incorrect Configuration: The configuration settings may be incorrect or incomplete, leading to the system not being able to find the appropriate incompleteness procedure.
  Document Type Issues: The document type being processed may not be linked to an incompleteness procedure.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve this error, you can follow these steps:
  
  
  Define Incompleteness Procedure:
  
  Go to the relevant configuration area in SAP (e.g., SPRO).
  Navigate to the section for defining incompleteness procedures. This is usually found under:
  Sales and Distribution >