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Create Number Ranges for Vendor Accounts

In this activity you create the number ranges for vendor accounts. To do this, specify the following under a two-character key:

• A number interval from which the account number for the vendor accounts is to be selected

• The type of number assignment (internal or external number assignment)

Assign the number ranges to the account groups for vendors.

Note

The type of number assignment is especially important. The following is possible:

• Transferring the numbers of your vendors from an existing system or a pre-system (external assignment)

• Creating the master records under new numbers assigned by the SAP System (internal assignment)

External number assignment is useful, for example, if you transfer master data from a pre-system. In all other cases, you should use the internal number assignment. The SAP System offers a number of help functions to determine an account number. Therefore the account numbers no longer have to be "mnemonic". This includes, among other things, the matchcode or the field Prev.acct no. in the vendor master record.

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Notes 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.

Additional information

For more information on this topic, see the FI Document Posting document.