Material Code length & ABAP Performance

[Former Member]

Hi experts,

If I have below material code in our ogranization:

SDS01W01L01NAP

and in the SAP rollout project I change this Material code into below code.

SD010101NP

will this change affect ABAP programming performance or any other benefit for system.

pl. suggest.

[Former Member]

The material code itself will not affect ABAP performance. There is no need to change an organization's materials numbers/codes, so long as they fit within the length of the material code, and are unique to a particular material, whether finished, raw material, etc.

[Former Member]

Thanks to reply,

I know it, but i want to know if i optimize/short material code length,

it affect internal table processing performance or abap programming performance.

I just want to remove unwanted character from material code to short material code length.

if it improve performance we so can change this codification.

because it is not a roll out project it like a Implementation project.

[ThomasZloch]

Once again, this has zero impact on performance, not even on memory consumption, since the defined column length is the same, and this is not a STRING type field. A Space takes space as well.

Apply organisational criteria for naming material masters. Don't touch a running system if not really required.

Thomas