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Create Number Ranges for Customer Accounts

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

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

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

Allocate the number ranges to the account groups for customers.

Note

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

• Transferring the numbers of your customers/vendors from an existing system or a pre-system (external assignment: you enter a number when creating a master record).

• Creating the master records under new numbers assigned by the SAP system (internal assignment: the system assigns a number when creating the master records).

External number assignment, for example, is useful 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". The help functions include the matchcode or the Prev.acct no. field in the customer/vendor master record.

Activities

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.