How To Fix TU246 - Contract account &1 for contract &2 has budget billing procedure 5

TU246 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: TU - Billing/Scheduling/Budget Billing

• Message number: 246

• Message text: Contract account &1 for contract &2 has budget billing procedure 5

What causes this issue?

You have tried to create a budget billing plan for contract &V2&. This
is not possible because you have not entered a value for budget billing
plans (1 or 2) in the <LS>Budget Billing Procedure</> field in contract
account &V1&. You can only create a budget billing plan for an industry
customer (budget billing procedure 5) using transaction
<DS:TRAN.EA61IC>Create Budget Billing Request</>.

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?

If you do want to create a budget billing plan for contract &V2&,
change the budget billing procedure in the contract account.
This is only possible if no budget billing plans already exist for the
contract account.

Procedure for System Administrators

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

TU246 - Details

• The SAP error message TU246 indicates that there is an issue related to the budget billing procedure for a specific contract account. This error typically arises in the context of contract accounts in SAP Convergent Charging or SAP IS-U (Industry Solution for Utilities).
  
  Cause:
  The error message TU246 specifically states that the contract account has a budget billing procedure set to "5". This usually means that the budget billing procedure is not compatible with the current settings or operations being performed on the contract account. The budget billing procedure defines how billing is managed for the account, and if it is not set up correctly or if there are inconsistencies, this error can occur.
  Possible Causes:
  
  Incorrect Configuration: The budget billing procedure may not be configured correctly in the system.
  Incompatibility: The procedure may not be compatible with the current billing cycle or other settings in the contract account.
  Missing Data: Required data for the budget