Material numbering

Client requirement is to go for a material no. change for the finish products ( external no. range) and want to have unique numbering. At present external no. range is given as they like. So existing material no.s will be replaced by new material number. I need some inputs how to go about on this from PP, MM, SD and FI/CO point of view.
Thanks,
Prasad

Hi Raghavendra,
If the client wants to switch off from old material numbering and wants to switch on to new material numbering, involves lot of efforts.
From every module, no open documents should exist in the system.
You have to create new materials and you have to transfer everything from old material numbers to new material numbers.
Periods, stock balances etc has to be taken care.
For the new materials, there will no past data in the system. They altogether new materials.
Then you have to delete the old material numbers and to do archiving.
This process is just like a small impl. project as it involves data collection, uploading, creating masters etc.
Hope this clarifies.
Thanks,
Viswanath

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Hi Guys:
>
> Clicked check box External number assignment without Check., When I am creating a material (mm01) with only numeric characters it is giving me an eror message saying for this material type Numeric characters are not allowed.
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