How To Fix /SCMTMS/MSG081 - Precondition for destination location &1 already exists

/SCMTMS/MSG081 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: /SCMTMS/MSG -

• Message number: 081

• Message text: Precondition for destination location &1 already exists

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/SCMTMS/MSG081 - Details

• The SAP error message /SCMTMS/MSG081 indicates that there is a precondition for the destination location that already exists in the system. This error typically arises in the context of SAP Transportation Management (TM) when trying to create or modify a transportation request or a related object, and the system detects that the specified destination location has already been defined with certain preconditions.
  
  Cause:
  The error can occur due to several reasons:
  
  Duplicate Entries: The destination location you are trying to create or modify already has existing preconditions defined in the system.
  
  Configuration Issues: There may be configuration settings in the transportation management system that are causing conflicts with the new entries.
  Data Integrity: The data being entered may not meet the required criteria or may conflict with existing data.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve this error, you can take the following steps:
  
  
  Check Existing Preconditions:
  
  Navigate to the relevant transaction in SAP TM where you can view the destination locations and