External material no series

Dear All Guru,
for defining the series of material for example ROH the logice is external no series only but it should allow any combination like it can be pure numeric no or alfanumeric no OR combination of both and not restricion on no of digits.
pl suggest how to assign such no range.
also pl can anybody explain when i put no range A to ZZZ what does it mean ; does it also include number like 234 ;
coz sys is not allowing 1DE but allowing D12 and i am able to use more than 3 digits.
Regards,
Vimlesh

HI ,
For acheving the Same the Range that has to defined a 0 to ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ( 18 digits) in MMNR
and this has to be assigned to a group and this group should have your material type.
But Before defining this we should know some other setting in OMSL( NO of digits ,format is defined in the same)
whether material is lexicographical material numbers or not .
if this indicator is not set till date ,to set this we should not have any any Numberical number ranges defined till date in system
And the other important thing is that the new number range should not overlap with the old
if we keep the number range as lexicographical material numbers,it it will not have any impact if it is Alphanumberic External number range .so no need to dinfe any thing for the same.
the definition given by you says you can enter only Digits stating with alphabets.
Try the same and let me know.
Hope so it helps
Regards
Anjanna.

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