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 all versions

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.
    

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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