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

SAP Error Message - Details

• 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

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