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Use

The EAN11 conversion routine is used for European Article Numbers (EAN) and the American Universal Product Code (UPC).

Features

It converts the external presentation, according to settings in transaction W4ES (in the ERP system), into the internal SAP presentation. In the SAP system, left-hand zeros are not saved as, according to EAN standards, these are not required. For example, the EAN '123'is the same as the EAN '00123'. As such, the left-hand zeros are dispensed with.

UPC-E code short forms are converted into the long form.

The EAN11 conversion routine formats the internal presentation of each EAN type, according to settings in transaction W4ES, for output. This ensures that the internal presentation does have left-hand zeros, or that UPC codes are converted to the short form.