How To Fix WX170 - Plant or customer & created

SAP Error Message - Details

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: WX - Master data maintenance: Plant

• Message number: 170

• Message text: Plant or customer & created

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message WX170 - Plant or customer & created ?

  Certainly! Here's detailed information about the SAP error message WX170:
  
  SAP Error Message: WX170
  Message Text:
  Plant or customer & created
  
  Meaning / 
  Cause:
  The message WX170 typically appears in the context of sales and distribution (SD) or material management (MM) modules when you are trying to create or reference a plant or customer that does not exist in the system, and the system is indicating that the plant or customer has now been created.
  More specifically:
  
  The system tried to find a plant or customer master record.
  It did not exist previously.
  The system automatically created the plant or customer master record during the transaction.
  The message informs the user that the plant or customer has been created.
  
  This message is informational and not an error that stops processing. It is a confirmation that the system has created the missing master data on the fly.
  
  When does this occur?
  
  When creating sales documents or purchase documents where the plant or customer master