External Material Number range definition error

[nachocampana]

Hi to all, I have an issue with the definition of materials number range in MMNR. I read a lot of the posts in this comunity but I couldnt find a correct answer for my question.

We need to create a materials with using an external code provided by vendors... there are a lot of possibilities for those codes, some of them uses -, others . or / in their codes...others uses only numbers, others a mix between numbers and leters and simbols... but all of them are unique codes (there cant be two same codes).... so I dont understand how to create a new group + range for this cases...

Right now we have in the system only one external range:

06 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

but I cannot use this one, it fails when I enter a number...How should I handle this?

Any Ideas? using an Exit?

[rob_mm]

Hello Ignacio,

Could you post a few real examples so we could do some real testing?

[VeselinaPeykova]

Any chance of dissuading you from doing this?

From what you explained, it seems that with such approach you will have to apply the same logic for all your materials - all materials using the same external number range... no conventions, no easy way for a user to figure out what a specific material is by looking at the number... I do not know about you, but it does not seem like a very good design.

Why not use old material number instead of the internal material number for storing this value?

Or any other suitable field, just not to create a mishmash in your system...

[former_member690303]

Hi,

Another solution could be to add the supplier codes in the description of the material when it is created, if you want the code in purchasing documents, reports, outputs.

[nachocampana]

Hi to all, I solve it changing the actual range to 0000000000000 to ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

That worked.

Tks to all anyway!!!