Business area required to release order &1

What causes this issue?

In company code &V2& of order &V1& either business area financial
statements are required or document splitting is active and the business
area is defined as a mandatory field. This setting determines that the
business area must be maintained in the order header to be able to
release the order or individual operations.

System Response

Release is rejected.

How to fix this error?

Enter a business area in the order header. To avoid this problem in
future, check whether a business area is allocated for the division of
the finished material and the valuation area of the production plant.
For orders without a finished material this allocation is evaluated with
an empty division.

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