Define Number Ranges For Sales Documents

System message when creating sales order VA01 :

The numbers in the number range XX for object RV_BELEG are almost finished.

How to ensure that you have changed all the sales order type to the new number range identifier if you are unable to extend the current range?

Answer

Defining the number ranges for sales document type when it is almost finished is part of the SAP SD consultant jobs and it becomes a headache if your company is large and there are many sales document type assign to the same internal number range.

It is time consuming if you were to used transaction code VOV8 (Define Sales Document Types) and check one sales order type at a time.  Furthermore, accurary is not there.

So what you can actually do is to make used of this table:

TVAK - Sales Document Types

TVAK-NUMKI -Number range in the case of internal number assignment

Use tcode SE16 / SE16N 

Specify your number range code and execute and all your sales order type will be display.

Define Number Ranges For Sales Documents

Notes:

IMG for Sales Order Type

SPRO - Sales and Distribution -> Sales -> Sales Documents -> Sales Document Header -> Define Sales Document Types

IMG for New Number Range

SPRO - Sales and Distribution -> Sales -> Sales Documents -> Sales Document Header -> Define Number Ranges for Sales Document

Steps for defining a new number range.

1. To define a number range, you have to create a new number interval:

  • Specify an alphanumeric key with up to 2 characters.
  • Specify the limits of the number interval. The individual number intervals may not overlap. Thus, every number can only occur once.
  • Mark the number range if it is planned for external number assignment.
2. Afterwards, specify the key of the number range for the sales document types.

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