How to Archive EANs

[Former Member]

We are in the middle of conversion and I am doing materials upload. I will be uploading same materials multiple times as part of testing. But since we are using external EANs/UPCs, SAP will not allow duplicates in the system.

How can I archive the existing EANs? Or is there another way for me to create two separate materials with the same set of EANs?

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Hope below link will give you clear picture about additional EANs.

[EANs|]

Thanks,

Asit Purbey.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Logically 1 EAN number will be tied upto only 1 Material numbers, you cann't have multiple EAN numbers pointing to the 1 Material number. Check with the MM functional guy, he would be correct person to help you. I don't think you can archive the EAN numbers alone.

Thanks,

Mahesh.

[Former Member]

Thanks for your reply. I have not gotten significant replies from the functional guys around me.

Is there any other work around regarding this issue? Delete the existing EANs? What is the usual practice during conversion when we upload the same set of materials with the same EANs, multiple times?

[Former Member]

Hi Christine,

EAN number means European Article Number, it is going to have 1 to 1 relationship with the material. It is quite commonly used in Europe implementations and customers from Europe send us that number instead of sending the material number in the PO and they expect the same number to be there in the invoice which we send as well, this EAN number is part of the Material master data in either Basic Data 1 or Basic Data 2 view.

Thanks,

Mahesh.

[Former Member]

Hi Christine...

Additional EANs can be maintained in Txn: mm42 in the purchasing view screen.

Just click on "Additional Data" and loom into the "Additional EANs" tab.

Hope this helps you.

Regards,

Jacob.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Hope below link will give you clear picture about additional EANs.

[EANs|]

Thanks,

Asit Purbey.