Upload of Existing Number Ranges 

Use

To ensure consistency and transparency of number ranges across your distributed system landscape, you can use this report to upload all existing number ranges from local instances of SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure (SAP AII) to SAP object event repository (the repository). You can also use this report to detect, and if required correct, overlapping number ranges.

Prerequisites

●      You have set up an RFC destination to the repository.

●      You have defined the repository as the destination system in Customizing for Auto-ID Infrastructure by choosing Basic Settings ® Define Client-Specific Control Parameters.

Features

●      Number range upload

The report uploads all number ranges with the status Not uploaded that exist for the selected number range object types to the repository via a synchronous RFC call. The number ranges are saved in the relevant number range object table in the repository and marked as Uploaded on the number range administration screen in both the local SAP AII and the repository.

You can no longer delete these number ranges in the local SAP AII or create number ranges for the same number range object type. You can only change the alert threshold or the interval of number range values, that is the size of the number range interval that you request.

If you request number ranges for GTINs from an ERP system and want to request GTIN number ranges from the repository, you must block GTIN number range request to ERP and upload the existing GTIN number ranges. You do not need to upload GTIN number ranges if you want to continue requesting them from ERP. For more information, see Number Range Request.

●      Overlap check

When you call the upload report, the report performs an overlap check to detect whether the number ranges to be uploaded overlap with any existing number ranges in the repository. If overlaps exist, an error message is returned and the report does not upload the number ranges until you correct the overlap manually. You can allow the upload of overlapping number ranges by selecting the Allow Overlap indicator. All number ranges with the status Not uploaded are then uploaded to the repository, irrespective of overlaps. Overlapping number ranges are marked as Uploaded and overlap in the repository and as Uploaded in the local SAP AII.

●      Upload simulation

If you select the Simulate Upload indicator, the report simulates the number range upload to identify any potential errors, such as missing master data or overlaps with number ranges in the repository.

Activities

You perform this upload in each local instance of SAP AII on the SAP Easy Access screen under Master Data ® Number Ranges ® Number Range Upload.

After you have uploaded number ranges for a number range object type, such as for SSCCs, you can no longer create number ranges for this object type locally. You can only request initial number ranges or change the alert threshold and interval size of number ranges.