Serial number usage

Hey everyone. Just wanted to make sure that I can still use a subscription serial number on two machines. More specifically, that it works the same as a purchased serial number.
Thanks in advance.

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Serial number generation

Hi friends,
I have a question regarding the serial number generation.
1. In serial number generation do we have option of generating either when creating and releasing the production order or when doing the GR for the production order.
If yes, please let me know how we can do that.
2. If we have the serial number activiated for the material can we use auto goods receipt for the material?
Thanks and regards,
Satish

Dear Satish,
Go to OIS2 and create the serial number profile which will be later assigned to the material master.
Select the serial number profile and select serializing procedure
Here,select "PPAU Serial numbers in PP order" and enter the value as desired in serial number usage column.
Similarly you can try for order release.
We cannot activate auto GR for the items with serial numbers.
regards,
Joseph Charles Vaikathussery

Post Good Receipt without serial number

Dear Expert,
My client use serial number management for good movement. But they have requirement to set serial number as blank when they perform GR non stock (GR for PO with account assignment) while serial number still mandatory for GR stock (GR for PO without account assignment). Is there any possibility to accommodate this requirement? Is there any user exit or enhancement to post GR non stock without serial number while serial number usage in serializing procedure set as 03 (Obligatory). Please kindly help. Your response is really appreciated and helpful answer will be rewarded.
Thank you.
-Stephanie-

Hi,
You have the solution already, tell the users not to use the material master when procuring non-stock items.
Because later on your are going to reach a point where users want to procure non-material however they will use a material number and forget to enter a account assignment and then what is going to happen????
It will result in procurement of stock materials...
What are they procuring using material numbers as non-stock items????
Thanks
Silas

Mismatch between serial number masters & its stock

Hi,
For a plant A000 and storage location 0001, when i execute MMBE i am finding stock as 1 in un-restricted stock.
But when is check iq02 and check number of serials exist for the Material Master, i find 3.
Could some one tell me why there is a mismatch
Regards

Hi,
This difference will come when the user creates new serial numbers during the goods movement, for example lets say if the current stock is '3' and user issued some '2 quanities for consumption. While issuing the materials if he used the option 'create automatic serail numbers' function instead of taking the serial numbers from the existing stock, then the system creates new serial numbers and issued with the stock quantity. Because of this, you will see the current stock as '1' with three serial numbers.
Actually the system should not accpet the newly created serial numbers for issues when your settings are correct.
Please check the serial number usage for the serial profile used in the material master in the below SPRO settings
Serial number usage is defined at two places in SAP-PM under IMG activity as shown below
First stage: IMG-> Plant Maintenance & Customer Service - Master Data in PM & CS - Tech Objects – Serial number Management- Define Serial number profiles
Then go to the serializing procedure and see the serial number usage for 'MMSL'. It should be '03'.
Second stage: IMG-> Plant Maintenance & Customer Service - Master Data in PM & CS - Tech Objects – Serial number Management-> Define Serialization Attributes for Movement Types
Select the “define flow type groups”
Here also, the serial number usage should be '03'.
Let me know if you need any more help.
Regards
Vijay

Serial number issue

Hi GUrus,
Can anybody please help me with this scenario? We produce a part in Plant A. We have another plant B. We get sales orders on plant B and if there is enough stock in plant B to meet the sales order requirement, we send it from B, if we do not have enough stock then we procure from plant A. The question i have is, is it possible to ship the same serial number parts to the end customer with out gettting any error message in plant B.
Fo r example, serial number 1 gets shipped from Plant A to plant B and we receive it and keep it here and when we ship the same serial number 1 to a sales order from plant B, we are getting the error message, serial number not found or invalid? can we do something in the system to get rid of this error message?
I hope i made myself clear? how will the system perceive this? Just because we shipped the serial number to our plant, does the system consider that we alreaedy shipped the serila number to the customer?
Thanks
Anusha
Edited by: anusha vemulapati on Sep 28, 2009 8:02 PM
Edited by: anusha vemulapati on Sep 28, 2009 8:05 PM

Well, did you find the customizing of the serial number profile in customizing?
I found the following instructions in SAP online help that will help you to confirm that your customizing is correct.
A serial number profile with the operation MMSL must be entered in the material master record.
If a stock check is to be performed, the indicator of the same name must be set in the serial number profile.
In order that the individual stocks are recorded correctly, you must define the indicator as follows:
· The serial number usage for the operation MMSL must be 03, meaning that the assignment of serial numbers is obligatory for goods movements.
· The stock check must be 2, meaning that if the stock data is inconsistent, the system does not perform the posting and issues a corresponding error message.
Best Regards,
Franck
Freelance Logistics SAP Consultant

Serial number profiles differ

Hello experts,
I have one material with serail no profile & other is without serial number profile.
we are required to do 309 movement from serialised material to non-serialised material.
System is reflecting error as mentioned below.
"You want to carry out a transfer posting for materials with serial number management. However, the serial number profiles of the receiving and issuing points are not identical."
Is there any way that we can do conversion of material from Serialized to non-Serialized.
Thanks.
AbhiD

Dear Abhijeet,
Thanks for response.
In OIS2 we are using procd MMSL Maintain goods receipt and issue doc. with Serial Number Usage as "OPTIONAL" for the profile required in material master.
I require MB1B - Transfer posting (mv type 309 material to material xfr). What needs to be done for this so that it should not dipaly error of serial profile mismatch.
Thanks.
Regards, AbhiD

Goods Movement - Supress/Deactivate Automatic Serial Number

Hi SAPers,
Sub: How to supress/deactivate the buttonfacility "Create serial number Automatically" while goods movement.
I have assigned Serial number profile "0001" for certain materials. For any goods movement system forces to give Serial number with a dialog box pop-up (Maintain Serial number as header) in which "search for Serial numbers as search button" and "Create serial nummber automatically". I have a requirement to either suppress or deactivate the functionality of Create serial number automatically. Please advice on this issue.
Thanks
Surendra

Thanks Thyagarajan,
If I select that system doesn't ask for serial number. We have to give manually.
Let me explain you scenario.
Serial number usage should be "obligatory", and system should ask for Serial number.
We have two options on the pop-up screen, 1. Create Serial numbers automatically and 2. regular search option (as an Icon) and also there some icons like "delete", "select all" etc,.
Requirement is: User should not have access to create Serial number Automatically, user should search for the serial numbers and moreover system should force user to give serial number.
Thanks
Surendra

Automatic Determination of Serial Number in SO

Hi
Our Goods are SLNO assigned .It 's hard to assign manually in the sales order or in the outbound delivery.How to do SL NO automatic assignment in Sales order or in Shipping .Any help will be highly appreciated
Thanks

Hi Nick
Using the serial number profile, you can use the indicator Serial number usage to determine whether the serial numbers are to be assigned automatically during a serialization procedure. This means that the dialog box for creating serial numbers is no longer displayed.
In this step, you define profiles.
A serial number profile must be assigned to each material that is to be serialized. This assignment is made at plant level in the material master record.
This means that you can assign a separate serial number profile to a material for each plant. However, a material can have a mandatory serial number in one plant but not in others.
In a serial number profile, you define the following:
     Thebusiness operations for which a serialization:
              ->     Can be performed
              ->     Must be performed
              ->     Is performed automatically
              ->     Is not performed
     Information about whether for a business operation:
          ->     Serial numbers for which no master record exists in the system can be assigned
          ->     Serial numbers which already exist in the system must be entered
     Information about whether a stock validation is made for stock-relevant operations and how the system should deal with inconsistencies.
Note that this setting can only deliver meaningful results in combination with the setting of whether an operation <b>requires serial numbers</b>.
     The business operations, for which an equipment master record must or must not be created for each serial number
     The equipment category which the system should propose for the automatic assignment of serial numbers in the case of equipment master records
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G. Lakshmipathi

Serial number for mvmt type 501,561

Hi
When goods movement is done( only for mvmt type 501,561) the system is not saving the serial numbers even though serial number profile is maintained and it is kept mandatory.
Thanks
sam

If you want to solve this issue you have to do the config explained below in
SPRO- Plant Maintenance and Customer Service -Master Data in Plant Maintenance and Customer Service -Technical object-Serial number management- Define Serialization Attributes for Movement Types
In this Customizing step, you can define the serialization attributes of
     individual movement types or movement type groups.
Maintaing this setting is only necessary if you think the assignment of
     the serialization attributes at operation level is too rough.
Currently, only the serialization operation MMSL (Maintain goods entry
     and goods issue document) is supported.
Notes
If you do not assign a movement type group to a movement type, then the
     system always uses the settings from the serial number profile, that is
     defined for the respective serialization procedure key.
Here you should only make settings, if you really absolutely need a
     movement-type-specific control of the serialization attributes.
Example
For example, in the serial number profile for the serialization procedure
     MMSL, you define that serial numbers can be issued for goods movements
     (serial number usage 02).
For certain movement types, however, you want to ensure that serial
     numbers must be used.
To do this, you could define a movement type group here with the
     corresponding assignments and assign this movement type group to the
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Serial Number&WBS Element

Hi experts,
1-) I can not deliver sales orders because it requires serial numbers.
Can anybody tell me how to cancel asking serial numbers?
2-)If it is not available how can I create serial numbers?
I created serial numbers by trcode IQ01 but again I can not deliver sales order.
3-)At "create material serial number " screen it requires a WBS element.
What is WBS element?
And what is the role of it?
Thanks&Regards

Hi refer below ,Reward if helps you
WBS element
1) What is WBS element?
2) What is the Tcode to get to that screen?
3) What is the need and purpose of WBS element?
4) Do we happen to work on Functional module during our implementation project?
5) In what scenario/situation we will be working on WBS?
WBS is nothing but Work Breakdown Structure. It is mainly used in Project System (PS) module. Tcode : CJ20N
For any project defined we must have at least one WBS. Within this WBS we can have networks. Networks are nothing but the series of activities. Material are used to perform the activities.
To explain in detail just consider one example:
Govt of India wants to have Roads to be build through out the India. So Project can be defined in sap as "Connectivity".
WBS can be roads within different states like Roads for Gujarat, Karnataka etc.. i.e. WBS Gujarat, WBS Karnataka etc.
We can define different networks for these WBS like Road Between Ahmedabad to Surat or Between Bangalore to Belgham.
For this network we can have many activities like Land selection, Land Preparation, Road Building, Final finishing etc etc.
Hemal's example was a good example. Project Systems comes into play only when the industry's business is based on projects like... Construction companies, Engineer to Order scenarios. You may not see anyone using PS module for retail business. As Hemal explained in that example, you have a main project which is broken down into WBS elements. You can use the TC CJ20N to create the project and the WBS elements. Each WBS may have mutiple Networks associated and each Network may have multiple Network Activities as explained in the example by Hemal.
On the Sales Order, if your client is implementing PS module, you may have to attach the Sales Order to the WBS element it belongs to. WBS element is nothing but a bucket where all the activities belonging to that particular part of the project are captured. In the example, WBS Gujurat will tell you how many Sales Orders were created for the Gujurat sector, how much was spent on raw materials, what's the currect stock (reject stock) available. How many Production Orders have been confirmed and how many of them are getting confirmed in the future. How many invoices have been generated or how much revenue has been generated for that particular sector. How many deliveries have been made, what deliverables are still not accomplished.
So as you can see, PS is the center stage for all the modules that are being implemented like FI/CO, SD, MM, PP in this example. You can have cost centers and work centers defined. You can also have profit centers assigned at the plant level and get reports on various selection criteria.
In a complete cycle of PS, like in reality, you initiate a project, you confirm/release the WBS/activities as per requirement, you execute the project and you close it.
One cannot initiate an activity unless it has been released by the project manager. Everything is accountable here and every dime is counted and at the end you know how much did you spend or make on each sector (WBS). Dont get confused with the term sector here... I am using it just for the explanation purposes.
In one typical example, the company I was working with until not too long ago, had Deliveries from the Project (TC: CNS0). We never used VL01N. We used CNS0 to create a delivery and then used VL02N for confirming the picking quantity for the already created delivery document.
I hope this should help you at least a bit. I'm not a PS consultant so I may not know a whole lot but trying going to CJ20N and you will see a lot yourself.
PS consultants are one of the highest paid consultants. Their supply is less and so is the demand. They are expected to understand real world business processes very well and they are generally the center stage of a project.
Serial Number Management :
Serial Number Profile
Working With Serial Numbers
Serial Number Master Record
Creating Master Records for Serial Numbers
Serialization Data in the Piece of Equipment
Maintenance of Configuration Data
Serial Number Profile:
Definition
A group of data, summarized by a four-digit identification code, that defines the conditions and business procedures involved when assigning serial numbers to items of material.
You enter the serial number profile in the master record at plant level for the material whose individual pieces are to be managed using material numbers. This means that an individual serial number profile can be assigned to a piece of material per plant. In this way a certain material can require serial numbers at one plant, and not at others.
Structure
The serial number profile contains the following information:
 The business procedures for which serialization
Can be performed
Must be performed
Is performed automatically
Is not performed
 Information on whether for a particular business procedure
Serial numbers can be assigned, for which a master record does not yet exist in the system
Serial numbers that already exist in the system as a master record must be specified
 Information on whether for a particular business procedure, a stock check should take place, and how the system should react in the event of inconsistencies
The business procedures for which an equipment master record should or should not additionally be created for each serial number
The equipment category that the system uses when assigning serial numbers automatically in the case of equipment master records.
Working With Serial Numbers:
Purpose
You use serial numbers to identify items of material, which enables you to distinguish between the individual pieces.
Process Flow
 You create a serial number profile in Customizing for Plant Maintenance and Customer Service.
 You create a material master record and enter a serial number profile.
 You create a batch master record for the material if it is to be managed in batches.
 You can create serial number master records in advance if you want to have a pool of serial numbers. From a technical perspective, an "incomplete" equipment master record is created for this.
 You can create configuration data for serial number master records.
 You assign serial numbers to the material when business procedures take place (for example, a goods receipt):
 Either you assign manually serial number master records that you created in advance, or
 The system assigns automatically new serial numbers and creates new serial number master records for this
Serial Numbers in Sales and Distribution :
Use
It is possible to assign serial numbers in sales orders, inquiries and quotations, as well as for deliveries and returns deliveries. This makes it possible to track individual objects when goods movements take place (for example, sale of goods to a customer).
Integration
In order to use the serialization functionality in sales orders, inquiries, and quotations, you must have implemented the Sales component, and to use the serialization functionality for deliveries, you need the Distribution component.
Prerequisites
A serial number profile with the following procedures must be entered in the material master record:
Profile Maintenance for Deliveries
 Procedure SDCC checks the serial number on goods issue. The serial number usage for it should be 03 = must.
 Procedure SDLS defines that the serial number should be created on delivery. The serial number usage for it should be 02 = can.
 Procedure SDAU defines that the serial number should be created in the SD order for items that are delivered. The serial number usage for it should be 02 = can.
 In this way, it is ensured that the serial number is assigned at the latest when the goods issue is delivered.
SDAU This procedure makes possible the use of serial numbers in sales orders, inquiries and quotations
SDLS This procedure makes possible the assignment of serial numbers for deliveries.
SDCC This procedure makes possible the assignment of serial numbers when performing completeness checks for deliveries.
SDRE This operation makes possible the assignment of serial numbers for returns deliveries.
SDCR This procedure makes possible the assignment of serial numbers when performing completeness checks for returns deliveries.
Serial Number Master Record:
Definition
Data record that contains information for serial number management. The serial number is given to an item of material in addition to the material number, in order to differentiate that individual item from all other pieces of this material. The combination of material and serial number is unique.
Structure
The following information is contained in the serial number master record:
 Status information
You can establish here, which system and user statuses are valid for the master record. If necessary, you can set or delete the user status, display the authorized business procedures and set particular system statuses.
 Stock information
You can see here in which plant and warehouse the item of material is located, or to which batch it belongs. You can also see what type of stock and special stock is involved. The stock information is recorded automatically when goods movements are performed, and cannot be changed manually.
 Partner Data
Here, for example, you can use freely definable partner functions and partners to specify in Customizing which companies are responsible for the maintenance of the serialized material.
Configuration data
Here, you can configure a item of material according to its characteristics or make reference to a configured object.
Example of Serial Numbers
Company X manufactures solar collectors (panels). They produce three different types:
 Type A
 Type B
 Type C
A material master record exists in Company Xs system for each type. For quality control reasons the company wants to know for each solar collector delivery which customer has received which type of solar collector, and which serial number(s) of the collector type was/were delivered to the customer.
For this purpose, each solar collector that is produced is assigned a serial number that, together with the material number, uniquely defines it.
In addition, company X wants to maintain and repair particular solar collectors that it sells directly to individual customers. For this reason, an equipment history is to be maintained for the collectors. Company X is able to do this by creating equipment master records for these serialized solar collectors.
History
Use
 You can use the history of the serial number master record to ascertain which procedures have affected the serial number. You can find all documents that have been created for the serial number here:
 Production and refurbishment order
 Maintenance and service notification
 Maintenance and service order
 Sales order
 Delivery
 Inspection lot
 Goods document
 Maintenance plan
 Maintenance contract
Status Management
Use
Serial number processing is linked to status management. There are two different types of status:
 System status
System statuses are set when you execute a particular function for the serial number. For example, you post a goods receipt in the warehouse and set the status In warehouse by doing this.
User status
User statuses enable you to further delimit functions allowed for a serial number on the basis of a system status. You can assign and delete user statuses yourself if you have the authorization to do this.
Copying the Partner into the Serial Number :-
Use
Within the framework of a delivery, partner data is automatically transferred from the delivery note into the master record of the serial number when goods issues are posted.
Prerequisites
You have set the indicator Copy Partner in Customizing for Plant Maintenance and Customer Service under Plant Maintenance and Customer Service ® Master Data in Plant Maintenance and Customer Service ® Basic Settings ® Partner Data ® Copy Partner Functions to Master and Transaction Data.
 Furthermore, you have assigned the partner determination procedure and the corresponding functions to the equipment category under Technical Objects ® Equipment ® Assign Equipment to Partner Determination Procedure.
Features
 The system copies the partner data from the delivery note into the serial number master record.
 If partner data has already been specified in the serial number master record, this data is overwritten with the data from the delivery note. However, the system only overwrites partner data for which the indicator has been set in Customizing.
Creating Master Records for Serial Numbers:
Use
You are able to create directly master records for serial numbers during the assignment of serial numbers for various business procedures, if the serial number profile allows this.
In addition, you can create master records for serial numbers in advance. This would make sense if you want to have a particular quantity of numbers in the system, that you can assign during a business procedure. in particular, this is the case when you are using serial number profiles that require serial numbers to already exist for certain business procedures.
Activities
You have two options for creating serial number master records for a material in advance:
 You create an individual serial number for a piece of material.
You use this option, for example, if in make-to-order production you manufacture one item per day.
 You create several serial numbers simultaneously for a piece of material.
You use this option, for example, if in repetitive manufacturing you manufacture several items per day.
You can also create serial number master records if no serial number profile is entered in the material master record. However, use in business procedures is only possible if the serial number profile has been entered in the material master record.
Working with Serial Numbers in Deliveries:
Maintaining Master Data for Serial Numbers in Shipping
Assigning Serial Numbers in Deliveries
Deleting Serial Numbers from Deliveries
Creating Equipment in Deliveries
Some points of interest with serial numbers:-
-You can assign a unique serial number to each material. This allows you to monitor goods movement for individual materials, for example, when selling materials to a customer. Using serial numbers you can also manage the maintenance of individual materials more easily in the system. You must first create equipment master records, however, for these materials.
-To use serial numbers, enter serial number profiles in the master record for the relevant materials.
-Serial numbers are usually specified in the delivery item. However, you can also define them in the order.
-You can also have the serial numbers assigned automatically by the system.
-You must specify all serial numbers, at the latest, before posting goods issue.
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Is it possible to track a stolen ipods usage via serial number

Is it possible to track a stolen ipods usage via serial number

No. The SN will only help identify the iPod as yours if it is recovered
- If you previously turned on FIndMyiPod on the iPod in Settings>iCloud and wifi is on and connected go to iCloud: Find My iPhone, sign in and go to FIndMyiPhone. If the iPod has been restored it will never show up.
- You can also wipe/erase the iPod and have the iPod play a sound via iCloud.
- If not shown, then you will have to use the old fashioned way, like if you lost a wallet or purse.
- Change the passwords for all accounts used on the iPod and report to police
- There is no way to prevent someone from restoring the iPod (it erases it) using it unless you had iOS 7 on the device. With iOS 7, one has to enter the Apple ID and password to restore the device.
- Apple will do nothing without a court order
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I am getting the following error while creating the production order.
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If i give 100 serial numbers in the order, the error is solved. But i do not want to assign 100 serial numbers, i want to assign only 2 numbers.
I have tried using the new serial number profile also, but it is giving same error.
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Dear Narendra
Select the serial number profile and go to serialization procedure and set the ser. usage status 02 - Optional as below.
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Hi all,
I am getting an error message "Serial number xxxx not suitable for movement type". "Serial number xxxx cannot be used here" while making usage decision for an production material. The error is happening only for the particular GRN. The GRN was done for 251 quantity and the problem is with 97 serial numbers only, for the 154 quantity system did not show any error message.
First I tried to change the status and update stock details for the serial number thru' IQ02 but there also getting an error message business transaction not allowed.
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I tried to replicate the error message in development and quality system but could not as system is working fine. The problem occurred only for the select set of serial numbers and not for all.
When I checked in SCN got an sap note 1229108 in which it is mentioned that the error could be because issuing SL is not mentioned in the order.
I would like to know whether we can apply sap note directly in production system or not.
Regards
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Hi Shyam,
The "97" serial nos are assigned to the same material only. The problem is when the 251 serial numbers were entered at the time of posting GRN, system is updating the stock details only 154 serial numbers only. So when we try to posting in QA32 for 251 quantities system is giving an error "Serial number cannot be used here", "Serial number is not suitable for movement type". Tried to reverse GRN but system is giving same error message.
Tried changing the status and then update the stock details for 97 serial numbers, system did not allow to enter the stock details. Checked for SAP notes, but they are all already updated in the system. Kindly let me know if I am missing any step or doing something wrong.

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