Serial Number-shared by two articles

[former_member185462]

Hi,

How SAP allows a serial number to be used by two different articles.How is this possible.

Please find the below screen shot.

[JL23]

you probably did a material to material movement (309)

[former_member185462]

During delivery process Serial number was assigned to article x and during return delivery same Serial number was assigned to Y.

My doubt is how system is allowing to do.

[JL23]

I know this is SD forum and it should mainly deal with own created serial numbers, but it is a kind of central component and also used in PM and MM and  from a logical point of view is a serial number nothing else than a number range in a IT system, and it can happen that many companies who are using SAP may just use the predefined number range. So it can happen that you get 2 different materials with the same serial number from different vendors. And would you really consider to return this material just because it has a serial number that is not unique in the world?

[former_member185462]

We get material as plain,we generate serial number and attach it with serial number during GRN.

As per our client requirement must be a unique number .

We adopt only the process below

1)Purchase from Vendor

2)Generate Serial Number

3)Do GRN

4)Sell materials with Serial number

5)Return from Customer and

6)Sell back to customer.

No PP Module involved in client

[JL23]

Then you should validate your serial number as explained in

Starting this validation in the current situation may lead to the fact that you can't work anymore with either one of your example as it would mean it is inconsistent to the customizing.

[former_member200650]

Why can't two different materials being used SAME serial numbers?

e.g.

TV      - 100 QTY -->1...100 serial numbers range can be allocated

Fridge  -100 QTY -->1...100 Serial number  range can be allocated

If a material is being used the same serial number multiple times then it is odd behavior.

[former_member185462]

I believe Serial Number is used to identify a material with Unique Number.