Initializing serial numbers

[kalyana_chakravarthy2]

Hi Guru's,

    Can we somewhere configure initializing of serial numbers in the system. For example, for material A the first serial number is 1 & for material B, can we have first serial number as 2 & different first serial number for different materials.

I checked the related questions on forum but could not get the solution.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Kalyan

[dejoy · Accepted solution]

Hello Kalyan,

If I am getting your query right than this can be achived as below.

1. create one starting  serial no manually in IQ01 for material, so in  next inventory posting serial no.will be started from there onwards.

Or 2.  at the time of goods movement for that material,specify starting serial no for one quantity and for remaining select automatically,in this case also system will pick serial no onwords.

Edit:If your scenario is different or any restriction,please specify with details.Also check how would you track user errors.

Regards,

Message was edited by: dee joy

[kalyana_chakravarthy2 · Accepted solution]

Hi All,

  We decided to use the functionality of using different number ranges for different serial number profiles as per the settings in below link:

http://scn.sap.com/thread/1929515

I am closing this thread. Thanks for the inputs.

Regards

Kalyan

[former_member200581]

Hi Kalyan,

You cannot assign serial number profile to already exsisting material.

To need assign the serial numbers to the material at GR then you should already have a serial number profile assigned to the material.

Create new material and assign a serial number profile to this.And transfer the material with movement type 309.

Problem with Material Serial Number in Goods Receipt

http://www.sap-img.com/materials/serial-number-for-existing-stock.htm

Regards,

Amit Kataria

[kalyana_chakravarthy2]

Hi Amit,

  My requirement is not to assign serial numbers for existing stock. I want to assign different initial serial number for different material. Can we configure to have different first serial number for different materials.

Do we have any configuration in system to do this or do we need a development.

Regards

Kalyan

[Former Member]

HI Kalyan,

                 Your requirement can be met through some automation . You have 2 options.

1. With prior existence of Serial number (in this case Equipment number=Serial number and you do the serialization process)

2.Create serial numbers during transaction (say MFBF) .In this case You need not to do Serialization but here also Equip number=Serial number Synchronous

With the second option, User can provide different serial numbers based on the material (that for A he can give 1, For B 1 he can give again for A, serial number 1 will not be allowed. It is a std SAP feature). But in this case, He may provide serial number as 1, then 250 then 1000 then3 , etc.. There is no continuity. So, which does not meet your req. It holds on the user responsibility.

For the serial number increment based on the material, you have to store last serial number based on the material group/REM profile/MRp controller similarity having and provide a program where It will create the next serial numbers.

For these serial numbers, user has to do serialization (material+serial number mapping) one-by-one. For serialized material only you can provide in the MFBF/any other transaction.

Hope it will solve your problem !

Revert for any clarification

Regards,

Subrahmanyam B

[kalyana_chakravarthy2]

Hi Subrahmanyam,

  Thanks for your response.

There are no serial numbers as of now. In the initialization itself, we want to have different serial numbers for different materials. So, you mean to say that there is no standard configuration in the system to achieve this. We have to do it by development only ?

Regards

Kalyan

[Former Member]

HI kalyan,

               In std SAP, the checking will be material+serial number is the Key combination. I am talking about serial number only. Not Equipment . Since, once you attach one equip to  one material means, you can not generate/create the same equip number. But for Serial number you can generate for different material.

having same serial numbers for different material is your requirement. But how to provide that in the continuous mode is the question over here. You can impose that User has to take the responsibility for this or, you need to create a serial number insuch a way that it should check the last serial number for that material/group of materials and increment them.This is purely by program only.This by User-exit abaper can do.

There is No std config to achieve CONTINUOUS serial number generation for a material .

Regards,

Subrahmanyam B

[kalyana_chakravarthy2]

Hi Subrahmanyam,

  I think you misunderstood my question. I do not want same serial numbers for different materials.

My requirement is: In standard SAP, the starting serial number for all the materials will be 1. I need for different materials different starting serial number. Do we have any configuration setting in system that somewhere we can initialize the starting/first serial number for a material. If we can this setting then, our customer wants to give different starting/first serial number for different materials.

Regards

Kalyan

[Former Member]

Dear Kalyan,

                   What do you mean by Different starting serial numbers ? say today I allocate sl no 001 for A ,tomorrow i allocate sl no 002 for B and 003  to C is it you require ? in this, you are making serial number a unique across the materials. This you can achieve through 'With Equip ' serialization and 'Equip exist' option as said.

OR , today you allocate sl no 001 to A, 002 to B and 001 to C ,99 to D etc.. is this ? this falls like unique sl no wrt to materials. This is achieved thru option 2 as said.

There is another option of 'Synchronization' in the Workscheduling/General plant data ,beneath the Ser.no profile. This helps you to keep increment your serial number wrt to that material (option2 process). But,you can better control with your program rather using this.

Please explain how you required.

Regards,

Subrahmanyam B

[kalyana_chakravarthy2]

Hi Subrahmanyam,

  For each & every material, the first serial number will be 1. Now, for material A, I want the first serial number to be 123. For material B, I want the first serial number to be 234 & for material C, I want the serial number to be 456. For all the different materials, we want different initial serial numbers. My question is where is system can we configure to have different first serial number for different materials.

Do we have any configuration is system to do this or do we need a development.

Regards

Kalyan

[Former Member]

HI kalyn,

               You can assign serial numbers to existing stocked material from now onwards. It is possible. As you explained in your requirement that,You have different initial serial numbers for different materials. For this, you have to maintain Synchronous Indicator-1 in Material master of General pland data view/Worksheduling view.

Also, you need to maintain the settings as Internal Equipment number range (range can be 000000 to 999999) and you can provide 123 as initial sl number.This is the cautious activity that to be done. From next GR onwards , it will increase to 124 ,125 ...and so on.

Please revert for any help !!

Regards,

Subrahmanyam B