A document such as an invoice, purchase order, or payment proposal request, fails to route to a supplier's account on Ariba Network due to the following error message: No relationship with Supplier.

You'll need to send a trading relationship request for your supplier. They may need to accept your request manually, depending on their Ariba Network account configuration.

After a trading relationship is established, the document is sent successfully to Ariba Network, unless it has permanently failed in SAP Ariba Buying solutions. If the documents History tab indicates a permanent failure, there are still corrective actions you can take.

Newly created documents will route successfully to the supplier's account on Ariba Network.

When checking on Ariba Network, this supplier's account did not have any trading relationships. While the supplier setup in SAP Ariba Buying solutions is correct, you did not add this supplier as a trading partner on Ariba Network.

See also Why did a document sent to my supplier fail with the error "No relationship with supplier", if we already had a trading relationship?.

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