Skipped Numbering for Materials

Hi,
We currently have a situation wherein we noticed that material numbers are inconsistently numbered. Instead of sequential all throughout, some numbers are skipped. For example, we would have materials 300010, 300011, 300012, 300020, 300021 (see the skip between 300012 and 300020).
This also occurs for customer master and vendor master data. What could be causing this? Is this a configuration issue?
Hope someone can help me regarding this.
Thank you.

buffering is used to have a better performance, it is much quicker to access the DB table just once and add 10 numbers into the memory and then read 9 times the memory before the program access the DB table again.
For material master I dont see any issue to set the buffer to 1, as you never create so much materials manually that you will recognize a performance loss because of this buffer setting. But if you load 100000 materials for a go-live, then it will take a little longer.
For requisitions that are created in thousands during a MRP run, which runs once a day or even more often, you will certainly have an impact on the performance.

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