SAP ABAP Data Element W_EDATEN (Indicator: Enhance purchasing data)

Hierarchy

☛ SAP_APPL (Software Component) Logistics and Accounting
   ⤷ LO-RIS (Application Component) Retail Information System (RIS)
     ⤷ MCW (Package) R/3 application development: Retail Information System

Basic Data

Data Element	W_EDATEN
Short Description	Indicator: Enhance purchasing data

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	AKTKN
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	1
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	1
Value Table

Further Characteristics

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Parameter ID
Default Component name
Change document	☐
No Input History	☐
Basic direction is set to LTR	☐
No BIDI Filtering	☐

Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	Purch.data
Medium	15	Purchasing data
Long	20	Purchasing data
Heading	13	Purch. data

Documentation

Definition

Indicator to show that the Purchasing master data is written to the respective material.

Use

Marking this field causes the communication structures to be enhanced with Purchasing data. At present, this comprises:

• Regular vendor
• Purchasing area
• Country of the regular vendor
• Vendor sub-range
• Country of vendor
• Country of the regular vendor
• Country of prior vendor
• Vendor's material number

Mark this field if you wish to use the Retail Information System along with its standard information structures or if you have self-defined information structures which uses fields from this Purchasing master data.

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	19971006
SAP Release Created in