2489676 - how to use long material number in SD SALES BAPI

For ERP systems above release 618 and SAP S/4HANA systems, the length of material number has been extended from 18 to 40 characters, but the original "MATERIAL" field in SD SALES BAPI can only accept 18 characters. Below see the BAPIs affected by this change:

• BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2
• BAPI_SALESORDER_CHANGE
• BAPI_SALESORDER_GETLIST
• BAPI_SALESORDER_SIMULATE
• BAPI_INQUIRY_CREATEFROMDATA2
• BAPI_QUOTATION_CREATEFROMDATA2
• BAPI_CUSTOMERINQUIRY_CHANGE
• BAPI_CUSTOMERQUOTATION_CHANGE
• BAPI_GOODSMVT_CREATE
• BAPI_CUSTMATINFO_GETLIST

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• Sales And Distribution (SD)
• Logistics Execution (LE)
• SAP ERP Central Component
• SAP ERP
• SAP Enhancement package for SAP ERP
• SAP Enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA
• SAP S/4HANA

SAP ERP Central Component all versions ; SAP ERP all versions ; SAP S/4HANA all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA all versions

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