Using Serial Numbers in the Work Center 

Use

You can specify serial numbers at each particular work center. For example, your supplier has not sent serial numbers with the handling units (HUs) you receive. You post the goods receipt for the complete HUs and only specify (by scanning or entering manually) individual serial numbers when you unpack the HUs in the work center.

Prerequisites

●      If necessary, you have set the Assign SNs and Assign SNs to Deliv indicators.

In Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management, choose Tab Pages in Scanning Area   under Master Data ® Work Center ® Define Work Center Layout and, if necessary, set the Assign SNos and Assign Snos to Deliv indicators.

●      If necessary, you have set the Serial Numbers indicator.

In Customizing in EWM, choose the area General Details  under Master Data ® Work Center ® Define Work Center Layout and, if necessary, set the Serial Numbers indicator.

●      If you want to assign serial numbers at warehouse number level after confirming a pick-warehouse task confirmation to a delivery or an inventory, you need to have posted the goods receipt for the corresponding warehouse for these serial numbers.

Features

●      You can execute the following in the goods receipt process:

○       Assign serial numbers

You must enter serial numbers for document items before the goods receipt process. You cannot assign these serial numbers to an inventory or a delivery after the goods receipt posting.

You can only assign serial numbers at warehouse number level and in inventory management up until warehouse task confirmation at the final storage bin, that is, until the end of the goods receipt process. You can assign these serial numbers to an inventory as well as a delivery before the goods receipt posting. After the goods receipt posting, you can only assign serial numbers at warehouse number level to one other delivery and, in inventory management, only to one other HU.

○       Delete serial number assignment

You can delete the assignment of serial numbers to an inventory or a delivery before the goods receipt posting. If you delete the assignment of serial numbers from the inventory, then they are automatically directly assigned to the delivery.

You cannot delete the assignment of serial numbers for document items after the goods receipt posting.

You can delete the assignment of serial numbers at warehouse number level to a delivery only after the goods receipt posting.

You cannot delete the assignment of serial numbers in inventory management after the goods receipt posting.

●      You can execute the following in the goods issue process:

○       Assign serial numbers

You can assign serial numbers for document items and at warehouse number level to a delivery or an inventory after pick-warehouse task confirmation.

Serial numbers in inventory management are view-only, as they have already been assigned to an inventory.

○       Delete serial number assignment

You can delete the assignment of serial numbers to a delivery or an inventory after pick-warehouse task confirmation. This is only the case for serial numbers for document items or at warehouse number level.

Serial Numbers Without Delivery Reference

If you use serial numbers without delivery reference, for example, when you repack stock in the warehouse, you have to specify the serial numbers in inventory management. If you only repack partial quantities, you must also repack the individual serial numbers.

Serial numbers for document items and at warehouse number level are not relevant to this process.

Activities

If you want to edit serial numbers in the work center, choose, from the SAP Easy Access screen, Extended Warehouse Management ® Execution and then one of the following transactions:

●      Packing - General

●      Deconsolidation in Goods Receipt

●      Quality Inspection and Count

●      Create Confirmation for VAS