3380705 - 'Jump' in the Individual Material ID of a consecutive Fixed assets

You identified a behavior in the area of fixed assets - Individual Material ID. For a very long time the number key was simple counted up.
Now you see a big "jump" in the number range from e.g., 100 to 300, leaving out a gap of 200 IDs in between.

SAP Business ByDesign

1. Go to Fixed assets work center
2. Search for all the assets and in the column 'Individual material' you see for a certain point of time, IMATs are sequential in nature, but suddenly a big jump is observed in the ID

System design

The individual material in fixed assets is not the only place that the underlying business object is used - when registered products are created, we use the same underlying business object as IMAT, so if registered products have been created in the system in the meantime, the IDs will already be used up.

Each of these uses up an individual material ID - we can't see this in the UI but I can see this in the backend. There is no way to ensure the assets will get sequential IMAT IDs as there could be any number of registered products being created in the system between the creation of assets.

Fixed assets, Number Range, IMAT, Individual Material , KBA , SRD-FIN-FA , Fixed Assets , Problem