How To Fix WRF_APC130 - Material &1 refers to a PRICAT material; variant creation not allowed

WRF_APC130 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: WRF_APC - Messages for Operational Assortment Planning and Control

• Message number: 130

• Message text: Material &1 refers to a PRICAT material; variant creation not allowed

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message WRF_APC130 - Material &1 refers to a PRICAT material; variant creation not allowed ?

  Certainly! Here's a detailed explanation for the SAP error message:
  
  SAP Error Message:
  WRF_APC130: Material &1 refers to a PRICAT material; variant creation not allowed
  
  
  Cause:
  This error occurs when you try to create a variant of a material that has been created or maintained as a PRICAT material (Price Catalog material) in SAP. PRICAT materials are typically created via the PRICAT (Price Catalog) interface in SAP's Logistics or MM module, often used in vendor catalogs or EDI scenarios.
  
  PRICAT materials are usually master materials that come from external catalogs.
  SAP restricts the creation of variants for these materials because variants should be created and managed in the source system or via the PRICAT interface, not manually in SAP.
  The system detects that the base material is flagged as a PRICAT material and therefore disallows variant creation to maintain data consistency and integrity.
  
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve this error, consider the following approaches:
  
  
  Check if variant creation is really needed:
  
  Confirm whether