How to define material code

our's is a valve mfg co.  We are planning to go for sap.  In sap Max length of material code is 18 and description is 40.  But  our existing material code maximum length is 25 and description length is 120. 
I want to know, Is there any other way that they will going to handle these type of material code and description.

Yes that right the MARA-MATNR field is restricted to be 18 chars long. But this is a really big number as slong as you will not hide information into the number.
The automative solution has a long material number, where a recalculation between a 18 digit to 40 digit will be done. Please check Service portal for this lonng material number solution.
The field MAKT-MAKTX has 40 chararacters and represents a SHORT text.
120 characters is very long. You can try to change the valid lenght as modification in SE11 on the data element.
As a result you can enter up to 120 characters, but in most UIs the display will be cutted, but scrollable.
This is a modification.
But see we hav also a long text field for basic data text in the master data view.

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