Diagnosis
In the planning layout you selected the indicator 'Planning incharacteristic hierarchy'. In manual planning a hierarchy is generatedby the system, which is defined by the sequence of characteristics inthe lead column.
Example: The first lead column contains the characteristic'Article group' and the second lead column contains the characteristic'Article'. There are the article groups 'AG1' and 'AG2' as well as thearticle 'A1' and 'A2'. The following values were entered:
Article group,,Article,,Value
Article group,,Article,,200
#,,#,,100
AG1,,Article,,50
,,#,,20
,,A1,,10
,,A2,,20
AG2,,Article,,50
and so on.
In this '#' stands for the characteristic value 'Not assigned'. In thischaracteristic hierarchy, the characteristic combination '# #'belongs to the total. The value entered to this combination correspondsexactly to the value that can still be distributed. Analogue the valuefor combination ' AG1 #' corresponds to the value that can bedistributed to the article within article group AG1.
In other words: The value for '#' always corresponds to the differencebetween the cumulated values that were entered for concretecharacteristic values and the value to be distributed in total in thecorresponding hierarchy level.
In this hierarchy of characteristics, for example the combination ofthe form '# A1' cannot occur. Threrefore it is not accepted by thesystem.

System Response
With a manual entry, the newly entered combination of characteristicvalues is not accepted by the system.

• If this message occurs in the additional log, the combination of
characteristic values belonging to it, is not taken into account whenforming the sreen.

Procedure
Proceed in one of the following ways:
Delete the invalid combination of characteristic values.


• If this message occurs in the additional log of manual planning, then
the characteristic combination concerned was already in the database,was generated with a planning function, or in accordance with theCustomizing to the characteristic combinations or entered in a planninglayout without a characteristic hierarchy. You should then delete theobjects concerned with a suitable planning layout or a planningfunction. You can find the invalid combination of characteristic valuesin the additional log with the function 'Detail'.