Why WM bin number is Max. 10 characters long?

[Former Member]

Hi Expert,

Could some one know why SAP WM bin number length is Max. 10 characters long?

Thanks!

Julia

[JuergenPitz · Accepted solution]

"Why" is always the wrong question...

Brgds

Juergen

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Juergen,

Sorry I insist on asking  this 'stupid' question, I am really curious to know if there is any trick in Bin number length decision...

Actually  I answered this question during interview, say this is SAP designer decided the table field length is 10, it is enough to setup Bin ID to identify the position from Bay-Row-Tier.....but the interview officer seems no satisfied with this answer and made me really confusing....

I will keep my curious to discover this trick if any...even I know EWM bin number length has been extended into 18 characters...

SAP has been bringing more fun!

Have a nice day!

Julia

[JuergenPitz · Accepted solution]

Hi,

".....but the interview officer seems no satisfied with this answer and made me really confusing...."

wow, what kind of interview was that?

Now I am not part of development, but there simply must be a decision made at some time in the design phase of a product how long fields are. And yes, for EWM it was extended probably because SAP has learned that the 10 digits is in certain situations not enough (together also here with the design change that a bin number has to be unique in the whole warehouse number, not only in a storage type).

So probably at some time there was a reason, but if this is ever documented...

Brgds

Juergen

[sushant_wanjari]

Hi Julia,

SAP has set up the LGPLA field to be of 10 characters only. You can refer the same in the transaction SE11 by entering LGPLA in data type.

I believe 10 characters is sufficient to define a storage bins. Anyways, in case of high rack storage you create the storage bins by Shelf-Stack-Rack arrangement and, also SAP permits the Alpha-Numeric storage bins creation along with special characters as well.

Give so many combinations, I think the options are too many to choose from.

Hope that clears your doubt.

Regards,

sushant