How To Fix WN474 - New plant will overwrite referenced plant in customer master

WN474 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: WN - Plant master data maintenance (integrated)

• Message number: 474

• Message text: New plant will overwrite referenced plant in customer master

What causes this issue?

You are creating a plant and need to assign an existing business
partner.
The customer of the business partner you want to assign has a reference
to a plant maintained in the customer master data. The referenced plant
is different to the plant that you want to create now.

System Response

The assignment of the business partner to the new plant overwrites the
current reference.

How to fix this error?

Check whether the existing business partner should be assigned to the
new plant.

Procedure for System Administrators

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message WN474 - New plant will overwrite referenced plant in customer master ?

  The SAP error message WN474 indicates that there is an issue with the customer master data when trying to create or modify a customer record in a new plant. Specifically, it means that the new plant you are trying to assign to the customer master will overwrite the existing plant that is already referenced in the customer master data.
  
  Cause:
  The error typically arises in the following scenarios:
  
  Plant Assignment Conflict: The customer master record already has a plant assigned, and you are trying to assign a new plant that conflicts with the existing assignment.
  Data Consistency Issues: There may be inconsistencies in the data where the new plant does not align with the existing customer data.
  
  Configuration Issues: The configuration settings in the SAP system may not allow for multiple plants to be assigned to a single customer in the way you are attempting.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve the WN474 error, you can take the following steps:
  
  
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