Leading zeros in product master

[Hans_van_Essen]

At my current customer we need to create productnumbers with one or multiple leading zeroes. Productnumbers doesn't have the same length and we have used the tickbox in the material type to ignore the external number range, but this is not working for productnumbers only consisting of numbers.

Productnumbers are not only consisting of numbers, but could also contain letters.

Is there any way to create the external productnumbers as desired?

[Dominik_Tylczynski]

Hello @Hans_van_Essen 

You can switch on material number leading zeros in the OMSL configuration with "lexicographical" checkbox. Make sure to read carefully documentation to the SPRO entry: Logistics - General -> Material Master -> Basic Settings -> Define Output Format of Material Numbers

Best regards

Dominik Tylczynski

[Hans_van_Essen]

Thanks Dominik, We were known by this setting, but we've already have a working production environment ans cannot use this tickbox anymore. Do you have ant other suggestion?

[Dominik_Tylczynski]

You can implement your own logic to handle leading zero with BADI_MATN1.

[AndreasMuno]

Thank you for your request, @Hans_van_Essen ,

the system's capabilities supporting aspects of numbering requirements like you mentioned can be found in the SAP Help, here.  

If this answers your request please mark the response as solution accordingly. Thank you.