Application Customizing (LO-MD-SN) 
Use
It may happen that materials with serial numbers, a verification obligation exists for all business operations of a material. In such cases, you must be able to present a comprehensive history for the material (for example, using deliveries, goods movements, or physical inventories).
Using the
residence/retention period, you can define how long documents to which the serial number history refers must be active in the system, in other words, how long the serial number history must exist.
Features
You can configure the residence times for different document types in Customizing for the archiving object PM_OBJLIST.
Activities
Customizing
Function |
Menu Path |
Configure residence time for document type |
Plant Maintenance and Customer Service ® Master Data in Plant Maintenance and Customer Service ® Technical Objects ® Serial Number Management ® Archive Serial Number History |