MEA1 SAP (Internal Management of EANs for Material: Direct Input) Structure details
Description: Internal Management of EANs for Material: Direct Input
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
MEA1 is a standard SAP Structure so does not store data like a database table does. It can be used to define the fields of other actual tables or to process "Internal Management of EANs for Material: Direct Input" Information within sap ABAP programs.
This is done by declaring abap internal tables, work areas or database tables based on this Structure. These can then be used to store and process the required data appropriately.
i.e. DATA: wa_MEA1 TYPE MEA1.
The MEA1 table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about Internal Management of EANs for Material: Direct Input data available in SAP. These include MATNR (Material Number), MEINH (Unit of Measure for Display), EAN11 (International Article Number (EAN/UPC)), NUMTP (Category of International Article Number (EAN)).. See below for full list along with technical details, documentation, text table, check tables, foreign key relationships, conversion routines, relevant tcodes and example ABAP select code etc. .
Delivery Class:Display/Maintenance via tcode SM30: Display/Maintenance Allowed but with Restrictions
SAP enhancement categories: Can be enhanced (character-type)
SAP MEA1 structure fields - Full list of fields found in SAP data dictionary
Field | Description | Data Element | Data Type | length (Dec) | Check table | Conversion Routine | Domain Name | MemoryID | SHLP |
MANDT | Client | MANDT | CLNT | 3 | Assigned to domain | MANDT | |||
MATNR | Material Number | MATNR | CHAR | 18 | Assigned to domain | MATN1 | MATNR | MAT | S_MAT1 |
MEINH | Unit of Measure for Display | MEINH | UNIT | 3 | T006 | CUNIT | MEINS | ||
EAN11 | International Article Number (EAN/UPC) | EAN11 | CHAR | 18 | EAN11 | EAN11 | EAN | ||
NUMTP | Category of International Article Number (EAN) | NUMTP | CHAR | 2 | TNTP | NUMTP | |||
EANBI | Previous EAN (for BTCI) | EANBI | CHAR | 18 | EAN11 | EAN11 |
Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure MEA1 using ABAP code?
As MEA1 is a database structure and not a table it does not store any data in the SAP data dictionary. The ABAP SELECT statement is therefore not appropriate and can not be performed on MEA1 as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table MEA1
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about MEA1 and the data within it using relevant transactions such asSE11 (ABAP Dictionary Maintenance)
SM30 (Maintain Table Data)
SE80 (Object Navigator)
SE16 (Data Browser).
Search for further information about these or an SAP related objects