SAP Note 12243 - SIS: Update termination with error M2012

Symptom:

When saving an SD document, the statistics update is terminated with error message "M2012 Error during posting period determination with variant xx", with "xx" being a fiscal year variant.

Other terms

SIS, M2012, posting period, fiscal year variant

Reason and Prerequisites

Error in Customizing

Solution
Create the respective fiscal year variant or maintain the posting periods in Customizing for Financial Accounting (Transaction OB29). After this, you can use Transactio SM13 to update the update records that have been terminated.
Refer to Note 10891 if the termination occurs when you update to info structure S014.