Central number range administration

[Former Member]

Hello,

We want to set up a central no. range. For that I want to know how exactally initial no. ranges are requested to the OER system by SAP AII local system?

Is there anyting we need to do from our side for requesting initial no. range?

Also how exactally SAP AII system  request to OER once threshold will be reached?

Is there any manual intervention or any settings needs to be done for doing this automatically?

Thanks.

[former_member216332 · Accepted solution]

Hello Ra bha& fellow readers,

I would like to elaborate what Bharat Reddy Vaka has already quoted above.

Steps 1 & 2 :

While preferring OER (central) type administration,

The first & foremost thing is defining the central (OER) & local instances (Different AII systems involved).

These can be defined at  "Transaction SPRO --> SAP Reference IMG --> Auto-ID infrastructure --> Basic settings --> Define Client specific control parameters"

If you are in the OER system, type 'C' in the CtrlParam Value field. Login to all the local instances of Auto ID that you would wish to connect with the OER & type 'L'.Fill in the other fields as per your requirement.

Step 3 :

In case you are an SAP PI consultant,
You'll need the below details to perfect the integration.

NumberRangeRequest_Out (AII to XI) - /AIN/CO_NUMBER_RANGE_REQUEST

NumberRangeRequest_In(XI to OER) - /AIN/II_NUMBER_RANGE_REQUEST

NumberRangeConfirmation_Out (OER to XI) - /AIN/CO_NUMBER_RANGE_CONF

NumberRangeConfirmation_In (XI to AII - /AIN/II_NUMBER_RANGE_CONF

Thanks to Bharat Reddy Vaka for a similar thread with the above information on interface & path details.

Step 4 :

This step here is a simple IDOC to PROXY scenario.

The proxy used is MATERIALIN.

The IDOC used is AIDMATMAS.

While configuring in SAP PI, you'll need to create

1.Receiver determination

2.Interface determination

3.Receiver Agreement

Step 5 :

In-case you want to create a new number range in the OER,

use transaction /AIN/NRADMIN.

If you want to use the number ranges already created in local Auto-ID instances, youll have to transfer those number ranges to the OER in the first place.

To upload number ranges from local instances to OER, use transaction /AIN/NRUPL

Step 6 :

Now that our local Auto ID instances , OER & PI are customized, a trigger from any Auto- ID instance connected with the OER would populate the respective instance with the number range.

References:

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3239926

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3354922

Regards

Sam

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Sam for the detailed information.

Here as we're maintaining central no. administration I would like to how exactally initial no. ranges will be requested by SAP AII to SAP OER system??

Let say I have GTIN 12345678910 & I have maintained no. ranges for it in OER & want to fetch initial no ranges in SAP AII from OER then what exactally we need to do in SAP AII?

Any transaction we need to run or please explain the steps if it's automatic.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

@Ravi

Once number ranges where maintained in the OER system you execute the transaction /AIN/NRADMIN which will take you the the number range administration in a web browser. There you have to choose your GTIN and click on the "Request Initial Range" button.

  This triggers the NumberRangeRequest_Out (AII to XI) interface to SAP XI system and SAP XI system calls interface NumberRangeRequest_In(XI to OER) to OER system. If the GTIN is properly maintained in OER it will respond to the request from AII by triggering the interface  NumberRangeConfirmation_Out (OER to XI) to the SAP XI system and SAP XI system calls interface NumberRangeConfirmation_In to AII system and return the required block of numbers to AII.

You do initial number range request for a GTIN by this manual process. Once the initial block of number where consumed SAP AII knows this and automatically triggers the above mentioned interfaces. This cycle repeats till all the numbers where consumed.

Just a small side note...usually GTIN-14 is used in the serialization.

Regards,

BRV

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks a lot Bharat.

Thing was that for testing we have added the GTIN serial no. ranges in the AII system itself because of which system was considering the GTIN no. range object as a standalone & was not showing the option of "Request Intial Range" in the web browser.

Now we have first deleted that earlier created GTINs in AII & we can see the option in NRADMIN.

Thanks for all your help & looking forward to your contineous support.

[former_member216332 · Accepted solution]

Hi  Ravi bha ,

Once a number range is created for a number range object such as GTIN,SSCC etc in an AII instance, the system assumes itself to be a standalone  system & the 'Request Initial Range' button is hidden from the interface.

There are two different ways to handle the situation.

1. Delete all the existing number ranges in the AII system for the particular number range object so that the  'Request Initial Range' button can reappear on the web interface as said above (since its just for testing purpose).

2.In real time scenarios where deleting the number ranges is merely not possible (mostly not preferred), we can use the transaction /AIN/NRUPL & upload the number ranges existing in the AII instance to the OER.

Step 2 will change the standalone system into a Central number range administrative system.

This helps the AII instance to consume the number ranges directly from the OER.

Reference:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_aii710/helpdata/en/45/f10e7561c706f9e10000000a155369/content.htm

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi ,

I want to implement a custom numbering scheme in SAP AII/OER.  My  current  client looking forward to implement UPU  2-9-2 standard   to serialize mail items & bags.  Need some guidance on this .

Regards

Tusar

[Former Member]

Hello @Ra Bha,

Following are the basic/high-level steps to achieve central number range maintenance...

1) Configure OER system/client as "Central Instance".

2) Configure AII system/client as "Local Instance".

3) Configure Interfaces in SAP XI/PI with right OER and AII systems for Number Range Request and Response interfaces.

4) Transfer Material Master data, with GTINs, from ECC to OER and AII. (Need to setup interfaces between ECC and OER/AII as well).

5) Create number ranges for GTINs in OER Number range administration.

6) Trigger an initial number range request form AII to OER for the same GTIN.

Please refer to the following similar thread for additional details...

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3239926

Regards,

BRV

[Former Member]

Thanks Bharat.

We have already done the above settings and also I already refered the link provided by you but yet not clear how initial no. range request will be initiated in SAP AII to get it from OER.

Also, what exactally SAP AII system is doing once threshold of no. ranges will be reached.