Serial Numbers in Inventory Management (SAP Library

Serial Numbers in Inventory Management

Purpose

You use this serial number requirement to store exact storage bin information for a serial number.

Prerequisites

For a description of the prerequisites, see Making Settings for Serial Numbers (ERP-System and EWM).

Process

The following figure provides an overview of the process flow:

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1. You execute a change in stock, for example, posting a delivery, internal movements in the warehouse or inventory.

2. Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) determines the serial number profile of the product and checks whether you have determined Serial Number Requirement in Inventory Management as a serial number requirement in Customizing.

3. You confirm the corresponding warehouse task or you are working with serial numbers in either the Work Center or the delivery. You thereby specify the required serial number, either manually or by scanning.

If, during goods movements in the warehouse, you only partly confirm a handling unit and you confirm the corresponding warehouse task, you must select the required serial numbers from the serial numbers specified.

In the inventory, you specify the required serial number together with your inventory count result.

You can only execute a goods receipt posting if you have specified the required serial number. If you are working with provisional serial numbers, you must replace them with valid serial numbers. You can only do this before confirming the corresponding warehouse task for the final storage bin.

For more information about entering serial numbers, see Entering and Editing Serial Numbers.

With serial numbers in inventory management, every delivery item is completely serialized, that is, every piece of the delivery item has a serial number.

4. EWM sends the serial number to the Logistic Inventory Management Engine (LIME).

5. LIME saves the serial number.

For more information, see the SAP library under SAP ERP ® Logistics® Logistics General (LO) ® Logistics Basic Data (LO-MD) ® Serial Number Management (LO-MD-SN) ® Working with Serial Numbers.