Comments on: Printing barcode labels in SAP R/3

By: shah

shah — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:25:57 +0000

Hi ,

Thanks for the post, it is very useful information.

I have a requirement to implement Barcode at my Client (Mining Company) for Stocktake purpose only. They have IM environment currently and they don’t use any serialization for their stock. I have following questions:

1. Can we use Barcode in IM environment or do we need to implement Lean WM?
2. Is Serialization of inventory a must for Barcoding? Can I simply convert MATNR to Barcode or do I need to create some unique code for every stock item?

Pls Note that currently we are implementing Barcode for stocktake only but in future we might have requriement to use it for STO’s GR and All GI’s purposes as well. So pls advise keeping this in view as well.

Any help will be highly appreciated

Thanks n Regards,

By: sharif from SA

sharif from SA — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:45:24 +0000

to design a barcode in smartforms, you need to use the one created in se73
you create a ‘character format’ using transaction code ‘smartstyles’
when you create a new char format, select the barcode that you have created in se73 from the drop down!
in your smartform, use this character format as a ‘tag’ with your barcode number in between.
and you are done.

By: Mansoor

Mansoor — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:35:24 +0000

How can I design a label? I am new to smartforms, please let me know!
Thanx,
Mansoor!

By: Ken Harrison

Ken Harrison — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:25:45 +0000

Hi Kowboy,

I have created a 2D barcode via a SMARTFORM by concatenating several fields into one barcode field. Each individual field is suffixed by ‘\&’. The barcode appears to print O.K. but will not scan. I am using the same scanner which I use for scanning linear barcodes and it works fine. Do I need a specific scanner to scan 2D barcodes please. The 2D symbology used is PD417. Also, is the method of concatenating the fields correct or do I need to include other control characters, please.

Your help is much appreciated.

Kind regards

Ken Harrison

By: Prem Karthick

Prem Karthick — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:38:56 +0000

Hi Kowboy,

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

I am an abaper trying to print Barcode for the given input material.
I have designed the smartforms and input screen in R/3 to print barcode for the given material numbers. I have followed your steps to create Z-Barcode types with code 128. After this i have included this barcode type in my custom smart-styles. Then I created smartforms using this smart-style.

Here, it is printing barcode for the given materials in the printer.. but the problem is, the printer skips 10 or 15 barcode stickers and then it prints my barcode..

Please let me know.. what could be the problem?

By: Kowboy

Kowboy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:23:42 +0000

Hi appyface, thanks for your comment. I can see how some Smartform guidelines can help you (or anyone) in creating the label. Unfortunately as a functional consultant I have no Smartform knowledge. I always leave form creation to the development guys; I just stick to the design in Excel. They do a much better job at building. Perhaps I can get someone to write a piece on this in the future. Hope you find alternative sources (e.g. standard forms at http://help.sap.com/bp_bl603/BL_US/html/index.htm).

By: appyface

appyface — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:38:56 +0000

Hi Kowboy,

Thanks to your article I am able to print a test barcode graphic on different laser printers now without 3rd party software/hardware.

But I am brand-new to Smartforms and I need to design a label very similar to your example. I cannot figure it out I can’t find any sample or test barcode Smartforms in our system either. I am trying to do it inside a table loop but maybe that is why I can’t figure it out, is wrong approach?

Would you provide instructions to create a sample Smartform of your example label in this article? I think having working example would help me a lot, and maybe others too that find your blog.

(I am using ECC 6.0 if that matters)

Thanks and regards,
–appyface

By: Kowboy

Kowboy — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:31:09 +0000

Hi Edward, impossible to give you a conclusive answer on that. Just install a demo of one of the dll suppliers. Then you set up a new barcode as I explained in SE73. You can test print this barcode from the same transaction and output it directly to your AD printer (assuming that Avery driver is set up in SAP). If it comes out allright there is a good chance that you can drop the DOS middleware. Like most configuring in SAP: trial and error.

By: Edward Koziol

Edward Koziol — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:29:45 +0000

I’m currently FTP SAP data to systems running DOS based price tag software that prints to Avery-Dennison printers. Does this support Avery-Dennison? Thanks, Ed. 904-415-5707.