SAP ABAP Data Element ISPCTEILN (IS-M: EDI Participant Number)
Hierarchy
IS-M (Software Component) SAP MEDIA
   IS-M-MD (Application Component) Master Data
     JMDGEN (Package) Generic Master Data Media
Basic Data
Data Element ISPCTEILN
Short Description IS-M: EDI Participant Number  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type NUM8    
Data Type NUMC   Character string with only digits 
Length 8    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 8    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
Search Help: Name    
Search Help: Parameters    
Parameter ID   
Default Component name EDI_PARTICIPANT_NUMBER   
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 EDI No. 
Medium 15 EDI Number 
Long 20 EDI Participant No. 
Heading EDI No. 
Documentation

Definition

The EDI participant number identifies the business partner in the EDI procedure in question.

In Germany, this is the ISPC number (Intermedia Standard Press Code).
This is a standardized data exchange program using collective computer centers between newspaper and magazine wholesalers ('ZZ') and 'ZZ' publishers, based on unified number systems. The data on sales figures transferred from the traders' computer centers to a collective computer center are checked formally there and selected by publisher. Each publisher can access these figures at the collective computer center.

Structure:

  1. Wholesale
    1. Wholesaler number (4)
    2. Branch number (2)
  2. Station bookstores
    1. 'BB' number (5)
    2. Branch number (3)

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20050224 
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