Transfer of Long Material Number

The standard SAP ERP material number field uses the domain MATNR, which has an input, output, and database length of 18 characters.

The long material number (MATNR_EXTERNAL) is the normal 18–character material number plus 22 additional characters. This enables customers for whom 18 characters are not sufficient to use 40–character material numbers.

The following SAPMEINT integration points support the long material number:

Inbound using IDocs:
- Transfer of Material using the IDoc MATMAS05 (see Material Transfer)
- Transfer of BOM (see Transfer of Bill of Material (BOM))
- Transfer of Routing (see Transfer of Routing from SAP ERP to SAP ME)
- Transfer of Production Order (see Transfer of Production Order)
- Transfer of Planned Order (see Transfer of Planned Order)
- Transfer of Floor Stock Data (see Transfer of Floor Stock Data)
- Transfer of Service (RMA) Order (see Transfer of Service (RMA) Order)
Outbound using BAPIs:
- Transfer of Routing (see Transfer of Routing from SAP ME to SAP ERP)
- Transfer of Production Yield Confirmation (see Transfer of Production Yield Confirmation)
- Transfer of Scrap Confirmation for Production Order (see Transfer of Scrap Confirmation for Production Order)
- Transfer of Planned Order Confirmation (see Transfer of Planned Order Confirmation)
- Transfer of Scrap Confirmation for Planned Order (see Transfer of Scrap Confirmation for Planned Order)
- Transfer of Floor Stock Storage Location Movements (see Transfer of Floor Stock Storage Location Movements)
- Transfer of Nonconformance Data to Quality Notification (see Transfer of Nonconformance Data to Quality Notification)

Prerequisites

SAP ERP

Caution Caution

You cannot deactivate the long material number function after it has been activated.

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You have activated the following business functions:
- DIMP_SDUD: Discrete Industries — Mill Products
- MGV_LAMA: Long Material Number

You have run the ENLM (Enable Long Material Number) report.
You have implemented SAP Notes 1795373 and 1871674 or applied the corresponding support packages.

Note Note

You can set the length of the material number in SAP ERP in Customizing for Start of the navigation path Material Master Next navigation step Basic Settings Define Output Format of Material Numbers End of the navigation path .

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