GTIN & UPC Stored on the Material Master Configuration

Experts,
I am looking for a way to store the UPC code and the GTIN number on the material master in ECC.  Like the EAN/UPC field I am looking to know if there is a way to have both the GTIN and the UPC field stored in the same field with SAP calulating the check digit and prefix.  If not is there another field on the material master that I can store the value for the GTIN and have a way of storing the additional units of measure GTINs also.  Any documentation around the storing of the GTIN / UPC would be appreciative.
Thanks!

Hi
GTIN has existed for several years to allow packages of retail items to be identified without going to the detail
of EAN-128. GTIN is essentially prefix indicating package type and then EAN-13 or zero plus UCC-12 (with check digit recalculated)
See http://www.ean-int.org/products.html for more details
SAP does not seem to have defined a GTIN outside of MDM and CRM
We haven't implemented GTIN but do use EAN-13 and other EAN codes. For GTIN I would create a new EAN category as a copy of HE (EAN-13) and create a new EAN number range as 1001000000000 to 9999999999999 and assign the range to
the new EAN code. All this assumes you will assign your GTIN externally. The range copes with GTIN based on both EAN-13 and UCC-12 (=UPC). You see more EAN/UPC fields in material master additional data.
Read the OSS notes 119604
Regards
Antony
Edited by: Antony James Vijay on Mar 17, 2010 9:28 PM

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