Codes and Conversions

You can control codes and conversion data for incoming and outgoing messages. Code and conversion data information is used to prevent interpretation problems from arising between you and your business partner. In addition, this information is also used to allow a basic level of translation for selected types of data between the ERP application and a foreign system.

These codes can be defined at two levels:

• Codes that have a one-to-one relationship with specific fields or functions within the ERP application, such as tax codes or units of measure
• Codes that cannot be used directly within the ERP application because there is no corresponding application element. These codes are typically used in text fields or reference fields

Data in this business object is used to:

• Defining conversion data
• Processing EDI messages