KI cost center locked
Cost center is locked for posting
A primary-cost or activity posting fails because the cost center is locked for the relevant transaction category.
Quick answer
- Most likely cause
- The cost center master has a lock for actual primary costs, secondary costs, revenues or other posting types.
- Check first
- KS03/KS02 — lock indicators on the cost center.
- First resolution step
- Confirm whether the lock is intentional with the CO owner.
Likely root causes
- The cost center master has a lock for actual primary costs, secondary costs, revenues or other posting types.
- The posting is hitting an obsolete cost center.
- A period-close or governance process intentionally locked the object.
What to inspect
- KS03/KS02 — lock indicators on the cost center.
- Posting type and cost element used by the transaction.
- Source derivation of the cost center.
Resolution path
- Confirm whether the lock is intentional with the CO owner.
- Correct the account assignment if the wrong cost center was used.
- Remove a lock only through approved master-data controls when the cost center should accept postings.
- Retest the exact transaction type.
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