sending materials/customer numbers through IDOCs by omitting leading zeroes

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Do you know of any method of sending materials/customer numbers through IDOCs by omitting leading zeroes and Without UE changes.

Please let me know if you have any pointers

Thank you in Advance

Ofcourse helpful answers will be rewarded with points!

[Former Member]

Hi,

We have conversion exits to remove the leading zeroes from a material number or even add leading zeroes to a material number.

Below are the conversion exits

CONVERSION_EXIT_MATN1_RANGE_I Conversion Exit MATN1, External Range -> Internal Range

CONVERSION_EXIT_MATN1_RANGE_O Conversion Exit MATN1, Internal Range -> External Range

Regards,

Farheen.

[brian_bessel]

Farheen,

How do you assign the Conversion Exit in the Business rule?

Best regards,

Brian

[vijayanandpaul_puvvula3]

Hello Archana,

Normally such translations can be handled very easily in the middleware if the Idocs are passing through a middleware such as SAP PI.

Regards,

Vijay.

[brian_bessel]

HI Vijay, there is no middleware, the system is sending an IDOC directly from SAP to a software called Power pick global. It interprets the materials with leading zeros or without, but not both. So we have a mixture of materials 008-010 and 12345 (000000000000012345). I want to drop the leading zeros on the numeric material when the IDOC leaves or is generated.

Regards,

Vijay

[Former Member]

Hi Brian,

Keep a break point at the FM - MASTER_IDOC_DISTRIBUTE. This will get triggered when the IDOC is generated. Find a suitable exit(which would be present) when the data is getting populated.

Apply the conversion exit stated above and exclude the leading zero's.

Regards,

Rupesh R. Nair