MM03 - Material Master Consumption Error

Question

Hi,
We are now moving into the ECC 6.0 version from 4.6C version. During testing in the upgrade test system of ECC 6.0 environment, we identified a particular issue.
In the material master change / display if we select BASIC DATA 1 view and enter into the ADDITIONAL DATA and then select the Consumption TAB system is deflecting back to the basic data 1 screen with an error message "Fiscal year variant is not maintained for the calendar year 2003".
We are able to edit / view the consumption details for the materials (being used since 2001) in our 4.6C system.
When the Technical team tried to trace the difference between the 4.6C and the upgraded ECC env test system, they were able to identify an additional coding that checks the fiscal year variant and periods assigned to the fiscal years.
The code simply checks the current period and fiscal year and if it is less than the number of periods, it will continue to the previous period and so on.
Now we have an issue where we had periods defined upto 13 for the fiscal years 2001, 2002 and 2003 (during that time the fiscal variant used to be week based year and now it is period based year dependent variant from 2004 with only 12 periods.
Hence the system is checking the period number and if it is less than or equal to the total number of periods 12, it will continue into the consumption tab, or otherwise it will pop the error "FISCAL YEAR VARIANT IS NOT MAINTAINED FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 2003".
Please advice if anyone else had got into a similar situation involving this issue
Thanks
Alluri Venkat

Answer 1

HI Anand,
I am going to assume that the problem is with F4 help in general, and not just with MM03.
If you have only one user with the problem, then the best way to troubleshoot is to compare with another user who is not having the same problem (like yourself).
First check Help settings for the user:  From any screen, select Help>Settings  select F4 tab.  Review the settings. Look for differences.  Make corrections.  Save.
If you can find nothing amiss, then the GUI is probably the culprit.  Check to see if this user is on the same version and patch as the 'successful' users.  From SAPLOGON, select the tiny SAP icon from the blue bar, then select 'About SAP logon'.  Alternately, you can right clik on the SAPLOGON on the Windows taskbar and select 'About SAP Logon'. 
There are known problems of bad interactions between certain Microsoft Software and certain patches of SAPGUI.  If any problems, download the latest GUI version and patch from SAP software distribution Center
http://service.sap.com/swdc
Select Download>Support packages and Patches>Entry by Application group
Select SAP frontend components.
Select the appropriate platform, then download the version that you need.
If the user is on the same vers & patch as you, and you can't find any other problem, might be a good idea to reinstall the SAPGUI.
Regards,
DB49