3380705 - Unexpected Jump in Individual Material ID Numbering for Consecutive Fixed Assets

The Individual Material ID number range in Fixed Assets shows an unexpected jump. Instead of being assigned sequentially (for example, from 100 to 101), the next generated ID increases significantly (for example, from 100 to 300), resulting in a gap of unused IDs between the assigned values.

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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

This is standard system behavior. Consecutive numbering of Individual Material IDs is not ensured, and skipped numbers are expected under certain processing scenarios.

This is the expected system behavior.

The Individual Material ID (IMAT) is shared with other business objects, such as Products. When Registered Products are created, they also consume Individual Material IDs. Therefore, gaps in the IMAT numbering sequence can occur.

As a result, sequential Individual Material IDs for Fixed Assets cannot be guaranteed, since other business objects may use IDs before new assets are created. This behavior can be verified in the backend but is not visible in the user interface.

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