Add Competitor Material via MMW1 but material number exists

Master Data Experts:
1. We are adding material type WETT competitor materials via tcode MMW1. However, we have many cases where our competitor number is the same as one of our own existing physically different material numbers. When we try to add the material, we get the hard error message "Specified material already assigned to material type xxxx" and cannot add the competitor material number.
2. Similarly, we have many cases where more than one of our competitors use the same material number, so we cannot add more than one as a competitor number.
3. Lastly, we have some competitor material numbers that are more than 18 characters long, and due to the SAP limitation of 18 characters we cannot add these competitor numbers via MMW1.
These scenarios have never worked before, there is no ABAP related user exits, etc, and no changes done before the problem occurred. We understand that under the single instance system you cannot add the same material number more than once, and we have a company policy system in place so our businesses will not have these material number collisions. However, we cannot control what material numbers our competitors use, so we need some way to remedy this so we can add competitor numbers even though they may already exist.
Any help that can be given would be appreciated,
David Bruhn
Hubbell, Inc.

Hello James and happy new year.
Thank you for your answer.
In fact, I already tried to leave the matnr field with blanks and for a material type which use internal numbers range. I hoped/thought it would have worked as you said but it wouldn't.
About the external old numbers I keep, I think I don't have to use the field external_number of the E1MARA1 segment, because some of my tests showed me that it works good. Moreover, I don't really understand the reason why this field exists because the field matnr is here for.
I presume that the external_number is maybe for another use I don't know, aren't you ?
I've never used this segment for data take over.
Do you know if the principle you described in your previous mail is also the same to apply to customers & vendors idocs ?
Best regards.
David

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