How To Fix WXP561 - No fiscal year variant entered in planning step &1

SAP Error Message - Details

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: WXP - Retail Planning

• Message number: 561

• Message text: No fiscal year variant entered in planning step &1

What causes this issue?

You have used a <DS:DE.SPBUP>posting period</> as the periodicity for
planning step &V1&. A posting period can be clearly defined by entering
the relevant <DS:DE.PERIV>fiscal year variant</>. You did not, however,
do this when creating your planning step.
Assignments to info cube fields and planning scenario fields can only
be created when the posting period is used as your time field type when
the period has been specified completely, including a fiscal year
variant. This therefore means that all assignments to the relevant
planning scenario fields are deleted when the fiscal year variant is
changed at a later date or when data is refreshed.

System Response

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

How to fix this error?

To prevent unnecessary work, SAP recommends that all fiscal year
variants be specified before assigning planning scenario fields to info
cube fields.
You can define a fiscal year variant when defining your basic settings
at the planning step level.

Procedure for System Administrators

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