Codification logic for Company codes

[Former Member]

Dear Experts

We are debating on a logic for codification of company codes in our system. We are planning a single instance single client installation for ECC 6.0 and we have companies acrss the globe. We were debating whether to use go for simple all numeric code where the first 2 digits represents a number mapped to a country (for example 20 for india, 21 for china) and the next two digits as running serial number. We are also debating whether we just go with first 2 characters as alpha numeric representing the ISO code of the country as given by SAP (viz. IN for india, BR for brazil) and have the next 2 characters as running seral number.

Wanted to check with the experts if going with either logic does not make any difference or is there any specific advantage with any of them

Thanks

NSK

[atif_farooq · Accepted solution]

Dear:

Codification for your company code is company's management decision. Its purely up to management discretion and no proper syntax is used. You can use alphanumeric , numeric codes for your company code .

Regards

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I would suggest to go with Numeric Codification.

If you choose alphanumeric codification, then user might face difficulwhile entering the data in SAP screen, as he has to navigate more for characters and digits on keyboards.

Also numeric codes, helps more in report development, program codes where ranges are used etc.

Regards,

Gaurav

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear All

Thanks for all your inputs.

Appreciate it very much

NSK

[sanilbhandari]

Hi

The codification logic is upto you. The general practice is to have numeric codes as it helps in sorting data in excel and in reports. With new version of excel, even that is redundent.

Regards

Sanil