Enter a value between 1 and 99999 for excise duty base quantity

What causes this issue?

The excise duty base quantity is the number of units to which the
excise duty rate refers.
The excise duty base quantity is not within the permitted limits.

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

System Response

How to fix this error?

For technical reasons the excise duty base quantity must lie between 1
and 99999.

Procedure for System Administrators

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.