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Define Number
Assignment for Material and Phys. Inv. Docs
In this step, you maintain the number
assignment for the following documents:
- physical inventory documents
The number assignment for these documents is
not to be confused with the number assignment for accounting documents which
you completed in the step
Define number assignment for accounting documents. The number
assignment for accounting documents depends on the document type which is
allocated to the transaction.
The number assignment for material documents
and physical inventory documents depends on the transaction/event type which
is also allocated to each transaction in Inventory Management. The
transaction/event types are divided into groups of number ranges. A number
range interval has to be defined for each group.
Note
You cannot change the transaction/event types.
However, you can change the number range intervals or you can allocate
transaction/event types to new groups.
Caution: Change
in the Fiscal Year
If, at the time of a fiscal year change, you
reset the number range in the new fiscal year, separate number range intervals
for the previous year and for the current year must be maintained for one
month to allow postings to the prior period.
Example:
Interval for 1995: 4900000000 to 4999999999 status: 4900451234
Interval for 1996: 4900000000 to 4999999999 status: 4900000000
If only one number range interval exists for
both years and you make any postings to the previous period, the system will
assign numbers that already exist in the previous year. This would lead to an
update termination.
Default
Settings
In the standard system, the transaction/event
types and number range intervals are preset for Inventory Management as
follows:
- Physical inventory documents
Number range
interval from 0100000000 to 0199999999
This group contains
the following transaction/event types:
- IB Physical
inventory documents
- ID Physical inventory documents for counts and differences
without reference
- IN Physical inventory documents for recounts
- IZ Physical inventory documents for count without reference
- WV Physical inventory documents for difference postings in the WM
System
- Material documents for goods movements and
inventory differences
Number range
interval from 4900000000 to 4999999999
This group contains
the following transaction/event types:
- WA Goods
issues, transfer postings, other goods receipts
- WH Goods
movements for handling units (HU)
- WI Material documents for inventory adjustment postings
- WL Goods issues for delivery documents (SD)
- WQ Goods movements for usage decisions (QM)
- WR Goods movements for completion confirmations (PP)
- WS Goods movements for run schedule headers (PP)
- - WZ Documents for batch status
changes
- Material documents for goods
receipts
Number range
interval from 5000000000 to 5999999999
This group contains
the following transaction/event types:
- WE Goods
receipts for purchase orders
- WF Goods receipts for production orders
- WO Subsequent adjustment of subcontract orders
- WW Subsequent adjustment of active ingredient materials
- Inventory sampling numbers
Number range
interval from 0200000000 to 0299999999
This group contains
the transaction/event type SI.
Recommendation
SAP recommends that you accept the settings
defined in the standard system. In this case, no action is required on your
part.
Note
For performance reasons, 10 document numbers
are buffered on the application server. In this way, gaps in number assignment
can occur.
Actions
- Check whether you can use the predefined
groups and number intervals.
- If you want to change any groups, proceed as
follows:
a) Choose
Group ->
Maintain.
b) Select the
transaction/event type that you want to re-allocate.
c) Place the
cursor on the new group and choose Edit -> Assign element
group).
d) Save your
settings.
- If you want to define new groups, proceed as
follows:
a) Select
Group ->
Maintain.
b) Then select
Group ->
Insert.
c) Enter a text
for the number range group.
d) Maintain the
number interval for this number range group.
e) Allocate the
transaction/event types to the number range groups (see step 2).
- If you want to maintain new number range
intervals for an existing group, proceed as follows:
a) Choose
Group ->
Maintain.
b) Select a
group and choose Interval ->
Maintain.
c) Choose
Edit -> Insert
year.
d) Maintain the
number interval for the new fiscal year.
If you do not want
to use the year-related number assignment method, enter 9999
in the field Year.
Note on
transport
You transport number range objects as
follows:
In the initial screen, choose
Interval -> Transport.
Note that all intervals for the selected number
range object are deleted in the target system first. After the import, only
the intervals you export are present. The number statuses are imported with
their values at the time of export.
Dependent tables are not transported or
converted.