How To Fix STGR165 - Suppliers are not available for reference plants &1 and &2

STGR165 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: STGR - Hold store grouping messages

• Message number: 165

• Message text: Suppliers are not available for reference plants &1 and &2

What causes this issue?

Some Active vendors from reference plant &V1& were not found in
reference plant &V2&. Active vendors from your source plant must be
available in your target plant.

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?

Select another target reference plant; or change vendors at reference
plant level if you still want to move the selected plants to the target
reference plant.

Procedure for System Administrators

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message STGR165 - Suppliers are not available for reference plants &1 and &2 ?

  The SAP error message STGR165 indicates that there are no suppliers available for the specified reference plants in the system. This error typically arises in the context of materials management, particularly when trying to create or manage purchasing documents, such as purchase orders or requisitions, where the system expects to find supplier information for the specified plants.
  
  Cause:
  
  Missing Supplier Data: The suppliers may not be assigned to the reference plants in the vendor master data.
  Plant-Specific Data: The vendor may not have been set up with the necessary plant-specific data, which includes purchasing information for the specific plants.
  Inactive Vendors: The vendors might be inactive or blocked in the system, preventing them from being used for purchasing.
  
  Configuration Issues: There may be configuration issues in the purchasing or vendor management settings that prevent the system from recognizing the suppliers for the specified plants.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  
  Check Vendor Master Data:
  
  Go to the vendor master data (transaction code XK03