Working with Serial Numbers in Deliveries 

You use serial numbers to uniquely identify each individual example of a material or product. Using serial numbers, you can track each individual material during goods movement. For example, you can track the serial numbers of individual materials when you ship them to a customer. In addition, you can use serial numbers as the basis for routine maintenance and plant maintenance, providing that equipment master records exist for the individual products. In plant maintenance, the assignment of serial numbers to individual objects is referred to as serialization. The individual examples of a material or product are called objects.

Company X manufactures slide projectors of three different model types: A, B and C. A, B and C. Each model has its own material master record. The company assigns individual serial numbers to each projector. Each serial number uniquely identifies a projector and refers to the model type.

Assigning Serial Numbers

Object

Material number

Serial number

Slide Projector 1

SP-A

36-04-01

Slide Projector 2

SP-A

36-04-02

Slide Projector 3

SP-A

36-04-03

Slide Projector 4

SP-B

36-05-01

Slide Projector 5

SP-B

36-05-02

Slide Projector 6

SP-B

36-05-03

Slide Projector 7

SP-C

36-06-03

For additional information on working with serial numbers in deliveries, see the QM documentation as well as:

Maintaining Master Data for Serial Numbers in Shipping Processing

Assigning Serial Numbers in Deliveries

Deleting Serial Numbers from Deliveries

Creating Equipment in Deliveries