How To Fix VL304 - Delivery type & requires a receiving plant for customer &

VL304 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: VL -

• Message number: 304

• Message text: Delivery type & requires a receiving plant for customer &

What causes this issue?

The delivery type &V1& serves as a stock transfer without a preceding
document into a receiving plant, which must be maintained as a plant
allocated to customer &V2&. This action is currently possible only via
Retail-Plant maintenance.

System Response

The delivery cannot be created in this fashion.

How to fix this error?

Select a customer that has an allocated plant and enter that customer
as the ship-to party.

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

VL304 - Details

• The SAP error message VL304 indicates that a delivery type requires a receiving plant for a specific customer. This error typically occurs during the delivery creation process when the system cannot find the necessary information regarding the receiving plant associated with the customer.
  
  Cause:
  
  Missing Plant Assignment: The customer master record does not have a plant assigned for the delivery type being used.
  Incorrect Configuration: The delivery type may not be properly configured to allow for the specified customer and plant combination.
  Sales Area Issues: The sales area (sales organization, distribution channel, and division) may not be correctly set up for the customer.
  Master Data Issues: There may be missing or incorrect data in the material master or customer master records.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  
  Check Customer Master Data:
  
  Go to the customer master record (transaction code XD03 for general data or VD03 for sales area data).
  Ensure that the receiving plant is assigned correctly in the sales area data.
  
  
  
  Verify Delivery Type