batch determination of configurable materials in production order

Dear All,

I'm facing the follwoing problem i have a configurable material which contains another configurable material in its BOM the item catergory for the configurable item is N , the problem is that during batch detrminittion of the material in the production order the system issues this message ' Batch entry/batch split not allowed for component xxxxx

Message no. CO584'

however the batch determination for other material types is workinf fine

please advice

regards,

Ahmed Sobhi