How To Fix OC115 - Customer & is not a Ship-to party - meter assignment not possible

OC115 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: OC - IS-Oil: BDRP Bulk Distribution Requirement Planning messages

• Message number: 115

• Message text: Customer & is not a Ship-to party - meter assignment not possible

What causes this issue?

Stock measuring meters which normally have a physically fixed location
can only be linked to 'Ship-to' customers.
The customer &V1& however is not used as a 'Ship-to' party for any
other customer and does not have a self-referencing 'Ship-to' (SH)
partner function.

System Response

The system prevents meter assignment.

How to fix this error?

Please select another customer or create a self-referencing 'Ship-to'
partner function for this customer.

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

OC115 - Details

• The SAP error message OC115 indicates that the customer in question is not recognized as a valid Ship-to party for the transaction you are attempting to perform. This typically occurs in scenarios involving sales orders, deliveries, or other logistics processes where a customer must be assigned a specific Ship-to address.
  
  Cause:
  
  Customer Master Data Issues: The customer may not have a valid Ship-to address assigned in the customer master data.
  Incorrect Customer Type: The customer may not be set up correctly in the system (e.g., it might be a sold-to party but not a ship-to party).
  Missing or Inactive Ship-to Party: The Ship-to party may not exist in the system, or it may be inactive.
  
  Configuration Issues: There may be configuration issues in the system that prevent the customer from being recognized as a Ship-to party.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  
  Check Customer Master Data:
  
  Go to the customer master data (transaction code XD03 for display).
  Verify that the customer has a valid