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2548795 - Cannot create a second plan for the same Sales Unit with different horizon which overlaps the existing plan

Symptom

While creating a Sales Plan, the system does not allow to have two different horizons which overlaps the existing plan for same Sales Unit and system shows the following exceptions:

A: "Please enter another plan ID."

B: "Planning horizon overlaps another plan. Select a planning horizon that is not selected by another plan."

Environment

SAP Cloud for Customer

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Sales work center.
  2. Go to the Sales Target Planning view.
  3. Click on New.
  4. Create a New Sales Plan with different horizons which overlaps the existing plan for same Sales Unit

System shows the following exceptions:

A: "Please enter another plan ID."

B: "Planning horizon overlaps another plan. Select a planning horizon that is not selected by another plan."

Cause

The overlapping of horizons for the same sales unit is not possible.

Resolution

This is expected system behaviour by-design.

The system does not allow overlapping of horizons for the same sales unit.

See Also

KBA 3783836 - Error "Please enter another plan ID" when creating a second sales target plan for the same sales unit and horizon

Keywords

KBA , LOD-CRM , Cloud for Customer , How To

Product

SAP Cloud for Customer add-ins all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer core applications all versions