How To Fix GC311 - Assignment company & and bus. area & for consolidation co. is missing

SAP Error Message - Details

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: GC - Error Messages for Consolidation/Extended General Ledger

• Message number: 311

• Message text: Assignment company & and bus. area & for consolidation co. is missing

What causes this issue?

Business area consolidation is activated.
Data transfer into the consolidation system allows the substitution of a
company or trading partner and the consolidation business area with a
consolidated company.
This exchange requires that all possible combinations of companies and
consolidation business areas be assigned to the consolidation company.

System Response

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

How to fix this error?

Maintain the missing combinations.

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message GC311 - Assignment company & and bus. area & for consolidation co. is missing ?

  The SAP error message GC311 indicates that there is a missing assignment between a company code and a business area for a consolidation company. This error typically arises during the consolidation process when the system cannot find the necessary configuration to link the specified company code and business area to the consolidation company.
  
  Cause:
  
  Missing Configuration: The primary cause of this error is that the assignment between the company code and business area for the specified consolidation company has not been set up in the system.
  Incorrect Data Entry: There may be a typo or incorrect entry in the configuration settings.
  Changes in Organizational Structure: If there have been recent changes in the organizational structure, such as mergers or acquisitions, the necessary assignments may not have been updated accordingly.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve the GC311 error, follow these steps:
  
  
  Check Configuration:
  
  Go to the SAP transaction code OBY6 (or navigate through the menu: SPRO > Financial Accounting > General