Increase String Length for Plant Field (WERKS)

Hi SAP Gurus,
Good day!
My requirement is as follows:
1. I have around 20 companies with at least 50 "plants" per company
2. In my legacy system, I am using a 3-digit code to identify the unique "plants" within a particular company code
3. There are instances of similar entries for "plants" belonging to different company codes. For example, Company 1 has a plant 101 which is located in the northern part of the city while Company 2 also has a plant 101 but located on the souther part of the city
4. Upon migration to SAP, I am requiring that I will know that upon first glance of the plant field, I will know immediately which plant (Plant-Company code combination) I am referring to
The workaround that I thought of initially was to have the first digit of the plant code act as a prefix to identify the company code and then the last three digits mapped to the old naming convention. In our example in 3, the first plant can be A101 (A = company 1) and the other B101 (B=company 2)
However, due to the nature of my business, I am constantly creating new company codes...and that in less than 5 years time, I may already use up all the available prefixes (letters+numbers)
I am thinking if there is a way to expand the plant field to say 6 characters, although this will involve customization. I am not sure as well how this would affect the interdependencies for the enterprise structure since the plant is one of the fundamental units in SAP. Aside from the fact that customizing the plant field may have other effects on support packages that may need to be installed in the future.
Any suggestions?
BR,
Puck

Hi,
I understand your requirement but it is not at all advisable to increase the lenght of the plant field.
You can use plants starting from 0001 till 9999( also the different combinations of the alphabets). Let the description of the plant include company code.
Once you start using the system you will recognize the plant by it's code with the company code.
It seems that you are a user and not a SAP consultant.
Please consult your SAP consultant to understand the importance of the plant.
The plant code is used in several tables in SAP.If you try to change the lenght of the plant field in one table you have to change it for all the tables, which itself is a very big project.
Changing the plant is not customizing, it requires some special technical skills with skilled people.
Try to drop the idea of increasing the lenght of the field to avoid incosistancies in the system.
try to map all your plants in 4 digit code.
Cheers,
Satish Purandare

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