How to add serial number contolled item with serial numbers in sales order.

Question

Hi OM Functional Experts,
I need a help on sales order booking.
We have serial controlled items in our inventory. At the time of booking a sales order, we need to call the items with the appropriate serial numbers [ for example, if i book an item for a qty of 10, then, the system should get the details ( serial number ) of the 10 item's serial number ].
And the serial numbers are Pre-defined by the organization for their internal tracking from the porcess 1 till end of the assembly line.
The purpose of this step, is to reduce the particular serial numbered item from the inventory, when we reserve/pick release the sales order.
thanks in advance.
Rdx,
J kannan
Edited by: J Kannan on Feb 17, 2009 1:23 AM

Answer 1

Kannan
OK. Unfortunately reservations cannot be created at the serial number level. So the unsupported way of doing this is updating the mtl_serial_numbers tables. I hope you would know (by some means) which serial numbers you want to allocate to a specific sales orders. If you know, update group_mark_id column in mtl_serial_numbers table with your order_line_Id, This will avoid any one from picking the serial numbers (they will not come up in the LOV or will not be auto allocated).
But you have to make sure to take it off when you actually want to pick this order line and allocate this serial number. So just before you pick release/ confirm this order line you need to update column back to null so that you can allocate that serial number.
Thanks
Nagamohan