Example of Serial Numbers

Company X manufactures solar collectors (panels). They produce three different types:

A material master record exists in Company X’s system for each type. For quality control reasons, the company wants to know for each solar collector delivery which customer has received which type of solar collector, and which serial number(s) of the collector type was/were delivered to the customer.

For this purpose, each solar collector that is produced is assigned a serial number that, together with the material number, uniquely defines it.

In addition, company X wants to maintain and repair particular solar collectors that it sells directly to individual customers. For this reason, an equipment history is to be maintained for the collectors. Company X is able to do this by creating equipment master records for these serialized solar collectors.