SAP Message QA321 - Number of containers in inspection lot must not be larger than 999,999

Diagnosis
A value &v1& was transferred to inspection lot creation for the fieldQALS-ANZGEB (number of containers). This value is too large. Themaximum allowed value is 999,999.

System Response
Inspection lot creation is cancelled.

Procedure
A value that is too large for the field QALS-ANZGEB (number ofcontainers) cannot be entered manually. Therefore, a value that is toolarge must be due to automatic populatation of the field. The field isautomatically populated, for example, during inspection lot creationfor the handling units. When the inbound delivery is packaged, thenumber of containers in the inspection lot is determined in the programon the basis of the number of handling units that are part of thedelivery item.
To avoid this error, you can do the following:

  • You can split up the inbound delivery, so that there are not more than
  • 999 handling units in one item.
    • You can use the consulting note 522292 to correct the automatically
    • determined value and make it an allowed value. This is done in theframework of automatic lot creation using a customer enhancement. Thisprevents the error message QA 321.