Entering the Serial Number Profile in the Material Master Record (SAP Library

Entering the Serial Number Profile in the Material Master Record

Prerequisites

The serial number profile must be defined in Customizing for Plant Maintenance.

Procedure

Call up the material master record in change mode (for example, Logistics ® Materials management ® Material master ® Material ® Change ® Immediately).

Choose the view and the organization levels, in which the block General plant parameters is found. The view and organization levels depend on how the material master record is structured by Customizing in your system.
Enter the serial number profile here.

As long as no serial numbers exist for the material you are able to cancel or change the serial number profile.

As soon as serial numbers exist for the material and you want to cancel or change the serial number profile, you should note the following:

The previously assigned serial numbers are no longer suited to the current serial number profile.
The indicator for the stock check may have changed. If this is the case, you can copy the profile settings in the serial number using the executable report program RISERNR9. However, you should only start this program once the changes have been updated in the material master record.

Save the material master record.

If backflushing is defined for the material in the master record, you cannot enter a serial number profile that has serial number requirement for goods movements (see procedure MMSL in Serial Numbers in Inventory Management).

You can also create serial number master records if no serial number profile is entered in the material master record. However, use in business procedures is only possible if the serial number profile has been entered in the material master record.