In this section, you can make settings for number management.
Serial number management allows you to distinguish between individual items of a material that are managed with a single material number.
Company X produces three different types of solar collectors:
There is a material master record for each type in the system. For control purposes, the company wants to know which customer received which collector type, and which serial number(s) of the collector type were supplied to the customer, when the individual solar collectors were delivered.
It is therefore necessary to assign a serial number to the customer delivery in addition to the material number.
A serial number master record is created with the assignment of the serial number. You can maintain data fields specific to the serial number in the master record.
Examples of data fields specific to serial numbers are:
At a later date, it may be necessary to enter equipment master records for materials that have already been serialized and delivered to customers, for example, if the producer of the solar collectors also has to perform maintenance activities for the customers and therefore wants to use all the functions available in the equipment master record for a serialized material.
In order to keep this option open at any time, you must define a number range for serial numbers. The numbers assigned from this number range are not the serial numbers but reserved keys that stand for the combination of material number and serial number and the equipment number that may possibly be assigned.
You can also define one or more profiles.
The serial number profile defines how and under which conditions a serial number is assigned for a material.
A material can only be assigned serial numbers after the required serial number profile has been entered in the material master for a specific plant.