Can a weekly fiscal year variant have different number of posting periods?

Question

Hi Friends,
Our demand planning team needs a weekly fiscal year variant (X) that will be assigned to all material master data.  X is year dependent and needs to be consistent with our fiscail year variant Y which is assigned to all company codes.
I input "52" as number of posting periods for X, but the problem is: every 6 years, there is an additional week in this fiscal year. 
This means, the number of posting period is also year dependent.  Although most of fiscal years have 52 posting periods, some will have 53 posting periods instead. 
I cannot create another fiscal year variant Z just for these 53 posting periods, because the material master data is not year dependent, I can only assign either Y or Z.
Have you ever encountered this situation?  If so, could you please share your solution?
Thanks,
Jennifer

Answer 1

You can always have 53 period year independent fiscal year variant as explained below.
We have 365 days in normal year, and 366 days in leaf year(comes every 4 years).
In leaf year you will get 8 days in period 9 and 1 day in period 53.
In normal years all periods 7 days and 1 day in period 53
Month       Day       Period
1                    7             1
1                   14            2
1                   21            3
2                   25            8
3                   4              9
12                 23           51
12                 30           52
12                 31           53
You can have the same Fiscal year variant always.
Hope this will workout for you
Prasad
Edited by: Prasad Yarra on Nov 5, 2009 10:17 PM
Edited by: Prasad Yarra on Nov 5, 2009 10:54 PM