About CVCs

Hi all,
Initally, I thought, CVCs are automatically generated by the system; even now, I hear people say like tht. I have tried in POS loading file after selecting "Create Manually". When I clicked the load button, I was able to see in the table below it, the contents of the excel file which was saved as Tab Delimited. Then, I was asked to click the Generate button to create the CVCs after selecting the rows.
Does that mean that we do not define the CVCs in the excel file but juit mention the different characteristic values for each characteristic.
Say, for example, if we have the characteristics Location, Product, Supplier and Sales Organization defined for POS, then, I want different combintions of these characteristics when I have 10 different locations, 8 diff. products, 7 diff. SOs, 12 diff. Sppliers. Should I just have to mention the names of these different characteristics under each colunm and then load it and then click Generate button so that different combinations can be created by the system itself?
Please help me clear this issue.
Thanks,
Guru.

Guru,
Take this scenario.
There are 100 products and 10 locations.
Not all of the 100 producs will be made in all the 10 locations. So the system doesnt know which one forms a valid combination. So we have to explicitly mention which all together makes a combination.
Example
P1 L1, P1 L2
P2 L3, P2 L4
and so on.
You have to create such combinations in the excel sheet you are trying to upload or directly in the screen to create some combinations.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Mani

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Hi Visu,
With the numbers that you give us, the greatest number of cvc's that you can obtain, if you use all of them as a characteristics, is 15x10x4x12= 7200
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