3458171 - Modify and Extend Billing Document Number Field - S/4HANA Cloud

There is a business requirement to extend Billing document numbering with prefixes, as Alphanumeric and Special Character like "/" while generating Billing Document.

For this reason, it is required to expand Billing Document Number field length from 10 up to 15 characters.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

In order to alter Billing Document Numbering, SAP delivers the option of "Flexible Billing Document Numbering". However, there are some restrictions/rules that user must paid attention.

1. Any prefixes defined must conform to the following format:
   
   
   • Alphanumeric characters only (A-Z, 0-9, no special characters)
   • Maximum length of five characters
   • The last character must be a letter (for example, 1A or 1234B)
   • You cannot assign P, S, PBD and TMP as prefixes because they are reserved for system use
     
     
2. About length:

• • The technical maximum length of a billing document number is 10 characters. When a prefix is used, this reduces the length of the possible number range by the length of the prefix. For example, a standard billing document number could be 1234567890. If the number range prefix ABC applied, the format would change to something resembling ABC1234567. This leaves only 7 characters for the purely numeric part of the document number, which is dictated solely by the number range interval.

There is no option to extend the length of the numbering in release SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2402.

If there is a business requirement for this feature, please file a request according to the 2963059 - How to Submit Feature Requests for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Product.

This will inform our developers as to what additional functionality should be considered for future releases.

You may also want to check the information in 2807810 - What is Support issue – What is Feature Request: Cloud Solutions.

SAP Help - Flexible Billing Document Numbering

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