SAP ABAP IMG Activity SIMG_CFMENUOLMSMMNR (Define Number Ranges for Each Material Type)

Hierarchy

☛ BBPCRM (Software Component) BBPCRM
   ⤷ CRM (Application Component) Customer Relationship Management
     ⤷ CRM_APPLICATION (Package) All CRM Components Without Special Structure Packages
       ⤷ MG0C (Package) Customizing R/3 material master prior to 3.0

IMG Activity

ID	SIMG_CFMENUOLMSMMNR	Define Number Ranges for Each Material Type
Transaction Code	S_ALR_87002330	IMG Activity: SIMG_CFMENUOLMSMMNR
Created on	19981222
Customizing Attributes	SIMG_CFMENUOLMSMMNR	Define Number Ranges
Customizing Activity	SIMG_CFMENUOLMSMMNR	Define Number Ranges

Document

Document Class	SIMG	Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name	SIMG_CFMENUOLMSMMNR

In this step, you define the type of number assignment and the number range intervals for material master records. When creating a material master record, you must assign it a unique number. There are two ways of doing this:

• internal number assignment

  In this case, a number within the number range interval allowed is assigned by the SAP system.

• external number assignment

  Here, the user assigns a number within the number range interval allowed. You can define the intervals for external number assignment numerically and alphanumerically.

You define the number range intervals for so-called groups. You assign one or more material types to each group.

• If you assign just one material type to a group, you can define both an internal and an external number range interval for the material type.
• If you group together more than one material type, you can define an internal and an external number range interval here too. This allows several material types to have the same number range intervals.

In the step Define attributes of material types, you have defined as an attribute of the material type whether, with external number assignment, a check is to be made against the number range.

Recommendation

SAP recommends using internal number assignment. Since you can use matchcodes to select materials according to any desired criteria, it is not normally necessary to use a mnemonic external number.

However, external number assignment can be advantageous if you want to use your materials in other systems outside the SAP system. However, the field Old material number and a matchcode are also available as standard for this purpose.

Actions

1. Assign each material type to a group. Remember that you can also group together more than one material type.
2. Define the number range intervals for each group.

Note

If you have not assigned a particular material type to a group, you can only use it if, in the material type, you allow external number assignment without a check against the number range.

Notes on Transport

Number range objects can be transported as follows:

On the initial screen, choose Interval -> Transport.

Make sure that all intervals of the number range object chosen are first deleted in the target system so that, after the import, only the intervals exported exist. The current number levels are imported with the value that they have at the time of export.

Dependent tables are not transported or converted.

Business Attributes

ASAP Roadmap ID	203	Establish Master Data
Mandatory / Optional	1	Mandatory activity
Critical / Non-Critical	1	Critical
Country-Dependency	A	Valid for all countries

Assigned Application Components

Documentation Object Class	Documentation Object Name	Current line number	Application Component	Application Component Name
SIMG	SIMG_CFMENUOLMSMMNR	0	HLA0006031 O
SIMG	SIMG_CFMENUOLMSMMNR	1	KA50000043	Construction Equipment Management

Maintenance Objects

Maintenance object type

C

Customizing Object

Assigned objects
Customizing Object	Object Type	Transaction Code	Sub-object	Do not Summarize	Skip Subset Dialog Box	Description for multiple selections
SNUM	T - Individual transaction object	MMNR	0000000001	☐	☐	Material Master Number Ranges

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	19990409
SAP Release Created in