Message SAP WXP040 - Maintain a fiscal year variant for calendar months

Diagnosis
You want to execute manual planning for a planning step in which'month' has been defined as the storage periodicity.
However, there is no suitable fiscal year variant for this storageperiodicity.
A storage periodicity is required in planning for the following:

  • Breaking down formulas with period fields with column definitions that
  • are applicable for all fiscal years in a planning layout
    • Applying of distribution keys to column definitions that apply to all
    • fiscal years
      • Determining the first day in a period for currency conversion
      • System Response
        You cannot enter manual planning for storage periodicity 'month'.

        Procedure

        • Maintain a suitable fiscal year variant or change the storage
        • periodicity for the relevant planning step in Customizing.