Maximum no of line items allowed in sales order

[Former Member]

Hello Gurus,

Could you tell me, how many line items are allowed in a standard sales order??

I need maximum limit of the items allowed in the sales order...

Regards,

Pavan P.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

U can enter the max no of line items be 999,999 because data type of item number POSNR is NUM 6, which means that it can hold upto value 999,999.

However, at the same time keep the following into consideration:

1. FI document has a restriction of 999 line items per document. So, depending on the account settings, there will be a lower limit. E.g. if each Sales order line item results in 2 line items in the accounting document, then the max. no. of SO line items is limited to 499.

2. If FI summarization is active, then the system summarizes the account postings, thus reducing the no. of FI line items. Hence, a SO can accomodate more than 999 line items. However, this means that certain line item level details will not be available to the Finance guys (which they may not like).

3. As the number of line items in a Sales order increases, the system performance suffers greatly. There are performance fixes available, but in general, it is painful to load a SO with large no. of line times through BDC's. 10 Sales orders with 100 lines each consume less system resources than 1 Sales order with 1000 lines.

Hope it is clear.

rewards if it helps

regards

[Former Member]

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