About configurable material

hello,
any body pls explain me. i am facing to issues pls provide me solution
1) my scenario is make to order with configurable material.
when i am creating sales order in configuration i have maintined characteristic which were mainly required and status is showing green but when i am going to save it showing inconsistency check message and showing the same material again and asking for enter the data.again means it showing twice then only its allowing to save. i dont have any sales order BOM i have only PROD BOM and component is recursive.
2) i have maintained dependency in BOM.
dependy is procedure.
formula is $self.qty = width*thickness.
when the time of check i didn't get any error and released.
but when MRP run i haven't get result on base of my dependency. just which qty i have maintained in BOM only i am getting. pls suggest me where i am doing wrong. actually now we r in GOLIVE.
THANKS & REGARDS
Bhakta

thanks for ur reply
actually i have maintained dependency formula mentoined below
Z_WOOD_CROSS_QTY:
10$self.z_QTY_JSSL = (((((32.5(WIDTH/25.4))/(121212))6)
20 NO_OF_Pallets))
30 if packing = 'hisexp' or packing = 'ownexp' and length > 3000,
40$self.z_QTY_JSSL = (((((32.5(WIDTH/25.4))/(121212))5)
50 NO_OF_Pallets))
60 if packing = 'hisexp' or packing = 'ownexp' and length > 2000
70and length <= 3000,
80$self.z_QTY_JSSL = (((((32.5(WIDTH/25.4))/(121212))4)
90NO_OF_Pallets))
100 if packing = 'hisexp' or packing = 'ownexp' and length > 1000
110 and length <= 2000,
120$self.z_QTY_JSSL = (((((32.5(WIDTH/25.4))/(121212))3)
130NO_OF_Pallets))
140 if packing = 'hisexp' or packing = 'ownexp' and length <= 1000,
150
160$self.z_QTY_JSSL = (((((32.5(WIDTH/25.4))/(121212))3)
170NO_OF_Pallets))
I have maintained
Thickness: 0.6mm
Width:1250mm
Length: 2010
When I am doing MRP run it should consider line 40-70
But it considering line 80 - 110 only
Its giving result as 1.64 in place of 2.04
Pls help me to resolve this issue. .
THANKS & REGARDS
CH.Bhaktavatsalam

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Procedure
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