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Former Member
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can any body please help me to understand serial number concept / scenario in SAP .

because i dont have any idea about serial number concept.

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Former Member
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Hi,

Serial Number Management

Purpose

You can use this component to identify and differentiate between individual items of material. This component therefore ideally supplements the material master record, which may contain all data for describing and managing a piece of material, but which does not enable you to differentiate between individual items of that material.

You can use serial numbers in various business procedures within Logistics. In each case, a transaction history is created for the individual serialized material item and its status is maintained automatically.

Integration

You can use serial numbers when working with the following business procedures and objects:

Component involved

Business procedure or operation

Plant Maintenance

Equipment

Refurbishment order

Maintenance contract

When using maintenance processing and history

Production orders

Production order

Sales and Distribution

Sales order, inquiry, quotation

Delivery and returns delivery

Completeness check for deliveries and returns deliveries

Quality Management

Original value recording of inspection lots

Inventory Management and Physical Inventory

Goods movements

Entering the physical inventory count

Posting inventory differences

Repetitive manufacturing

Inward movements from repetitive manufacturing

Purchasing

Purchase order

Purchase requisition

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.

Hope this clears your doubt.

Revert in case any query.

Regards,

Tejas

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Former Member
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sorry for late reply

thread is closed

Former Member
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Hi

pls look the link for ur study case :

[http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/LOMDSN/LOMDSN.pdf]

http://www.sap123.com/showthread.php?t=65

you can find the screen shots for the configuration setting and tansaction screens for serial numbers

thanks

vraj

Former Member
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sir

thanks for your reply ,

with the screen shots i made such changes. but in mmbe i get following message :

List of equipment: stock lines can only be accessed from plant level downwards

pls tell me where i am wrong ?

Former Member
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help required

former_member206980
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Hi,

Gentleman , first tell me, for what purpose are you using serial no management, then only you will get correct solution

Former Member
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Hi,

Please find below path[serial numbers|http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/LOMDSN/LOMDSN.pdf]

Thank

sreenivas

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sir ,

actually yesterday i had interview and in that same question was asked thats why i am asking.

please help me to understand the concept.

Former Member
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Hi

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.

Equipment also have same like serial number, this can be effectively created with transaction IQ01, activate the equipment view

For more information,click the below link.

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/LOMDSN/LOMDSN.pdf

http://www.sap-img.com/materials/inventory-serial-number-management.htm

Regards

Ramanujam

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Hi,

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.

Also pls find some material in the folowing link

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/LOMDSN/LOMDSN.pdf

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 u201CCreate Serial Number Automaticallyu201D , Release the Order

5. MB31 Do the GR for the above created Production Order.

6. Check in MMBE for serial Numbers

Regards

Vinod

Edited by: Vinod Mohan on May 8, 2009 10:38 AM