Serial number is also a master record, as it will be unique for a particular material. The serial number will be mostly given at the time of delivery. But this can be effectively controlled by the serializing procedure. We can create a serial number by IQ01. As and when you do transaction with serialised material, the status will get updated.
You use serial numbers to identify a product uniquely and to provide yourself with an overview of which products you have sold to which customers. The serial number is only unique in conjunction with a product, for example, cell phone CELL PHONE 0000000012345 or ENGINE0000000012345.
For example, you can use serial numbers in the following instances:
- If a freight forwarder damages a pallet during transportation, Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) can show you which engines were on the palette and could now potentially be damaged.
- You can tell if a partner reports a product as having been stolen, but later sends it to you for maintenance.
- If a customer returns a damaged engine, you can determine whether it is actually the engine that you supplied them with.
- If, during quality control, you determine that a production
error has occurred, you can identify the affected product groups by using
serial numbers. If necessary, you can also identify the customers to which
you have already sold damaged products and inform them of this.
Follow the following steps to set up serial no.:
1. OIS2 - Determine Serial Number Profiles.
2. MM02 - You need to add the above created Serial Number Profile in the Material Master as .
3. IQ01 - Create Serial Number
4. CO02 - Assigning the Serial Number through Production Order, Also Serial Number can be created automatically by clicking on “Create Serial Number Automatically” , Release the Order
5. MB31 - Do the GR for the above created Production Order.
6. Check in MMBE for
serial Numbers
Constraints:
Uniqueness of the serial number within a client, therefore cross-material, is not supported at present.
You need to maintain Serial Number profile IN work scheduling view / sales view in material master if you want to maintain serial numbers from PP / SD perspective respectively. Further you need to maintain Number range objects & Number ranges in SNRO with specification external / internal numbers required for serial numbers for the respective object.
For production orders, you can directly define number ranges in CO82.
