How To Fix O3194 - Other plants maintain excise duty tax group

O3194 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: O3 - IS-Oil: HPM messages (goods movements, QCI, deliveries)

• Message number: 194

• Message text: Other plants maintain excise duty tax group

What causes this issue?

This material has been maintained at one or more plants with an excise
duty tax group (maintained on the IS-Oil screen).

System Response

Warning. Unless this is corrected, problems could arise later during
posting transactions.

How to fix this error?

Either add an excise duty tax group to the material or remove the
excise duty tax groups from the other plant/material combinations. Once
stock is posted to the material, the tax group cannot be changed. Also,
all plants for the same material must have the IS-Oil screen maintained
uniformly . When there is one material for many
plants, either all the plants have to have an excise duty tax group, or
none of them do.

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message O3194 - Other plants maintain excise duty tax group ?

  The SAP error message O3194, which states "Other plants maintain excise duty tax group," typically occurs in the context of materials management and excise duty configuration in SAP. This error indicates that there is a mismatch or inconsistency in the excise duty tax group settings for different plants within the system.
  
  Cause:
  
  Inconsistent Configuration: The excise duty tax group is not consistently maintained across different plants. Each plant may have different settings or configurations for excise duty, leading to this error.
  Master Data Issues: The material master data for the affected materials may not have the correct excise duty tax group assigned, or it may be missing for certain plants.
  Plant-Specific Settings: The excise duty tax group may be defined for one plant but not for others, causing the system to throw an error when trying to process transactions involving multiple plants.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  
  Check Excise Duty Tax Group Configuration:
  
  Go to the configuration settings for excise duty