How To Fix OM487 - More than 3 currency types/valuations defined in FI and CO

OM487 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: OM - Customizing Materialwirtschaft

• Message number: 487

• Message text: More than 3 currency types/valuations defined in FI and CO

What causes this issue?

In Customizing for Financial Accounting and Controlling, more than three
parallel currencies or valuations have been defined. But the material
ledger only supports a maximum of three.

System Response

The material ledger category cannot be assigned.

Procedure for System Administrators

Check Customizing for Financial Accounting for company code &V1&.
Check Customizing for Controlling for controlling area &V2&.


Contact your system administrator.

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message OM487 - More than 3 currency types/valuations defined in FI and CO ?

  The SAP error message OM487 indicates that there are more than three currency types or valuations defined in the Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) modules. This is a limitation in SAP that restricts the number of currency types that can be used in certain configurations.
  
  Cause:
  The error typically arises when:
  
  You have defined more than three currency types in your company code settings.
  The system is trying to process a transaction that involves more than the allowed number of currency types.
  There may be inconsistencies in the configuration of currency types in FI and CO.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve the OM487 error, you can take the following steps:
  
  
  Review Currency Configuration:
  
  Go to the configuration settings in SAP for both FI and CO.
  Check the currency types defined in your company code settings. You can do this by navigating to:
  FI: SPRO ? Financial Accounting ? Financial Accounting Global Settings ? Currencies ? Define Currency Types
  CO: SPRO ? Controlling ?