Implement unique serial number within a client

[Former Member]

I am currently looking into a GAP that requires serial numbers to be unique at the client level. If anyone has implemented a solution, or researched the issue to see whether it is even feasible, I would appreciate if you could share your thoughts with me.

Standard SAP allow you to have the serial numbers unique at the material level, not the client level.

Regards.

[christian_wohlfahrt]

Hi!

Of course this is a question if you just have internal serial numbers, or if you have to handle external numbers, too.

In case of external numbers, you just can create a second internal number in addition and place a sticker on the good. Then the external number might be stored under 'manufacturer serial number'.

For internal serial numbers a user-exit can be used (or did we have own transactions and external number creation in standard transactions, booked in background? Something like this!). Then a number range can be used to provide unique numbers (cross article level).

(IMHO) Standard can't be customized this way, but usually only a <i>very</i> small number of different transactions are needed with serial number creation.

Regards,

Christian

[Former Member]

Hi Christian,

We want to handle both internal assignment and external assignment of the serial numbers. Could you give me a little more detail for the solution you have proposed?

<b>External</b>

Where do you create the second internal number? Which transaction allows you to store 'Manufacturer serial number'? What area of configuration, if any, would need to customzed?

<b>Internal</b>

Do you know the user-exit for the internal assignment? Can you create number range that is unique at the client level, not just at the article level?

Thanks so much for your help!

[christian_wohlfahrt]

Hi!

You can't customize SAP's serial number range this way. You need an own Z-number range, which you call in own development (exit or own transaction). So from customizing point of view all SAP serial number ranges are external.

Manufacturer serial number: IQ01, push button 'create equipment', field EQUI-SERGE. When you don't want to create equipments (because of a lot of additional table entries), you can modify this field - not standard, but possible.

Thinking about it: we used only own developments for good receipts. So serial number creation could be handled in own coding and no user-exit was necessary. Didn't see an exit right now, but just have a second look yourself.

Regards,

Christian

[Former Member]

Thanks for your guidance Christian.

Enhancement IQSM0001 gives you the ability to create new serial numbers. I will start looking at the possibilities of using this to fulfill the requirements.

Regards,

Jawwad

[Former Member]

Hi Christian

I am looking for information regarding serialization number and could see this thread.

Is it possible to have serializaton number unique at plant. My requirement is, i wish to maintain same numbering specific to plant.

Please guide me if any work arround possible.

warm regards

sairam akundi

[Former Member]

While researching the issue further, I discovered that there is a flag on the Material Master-->Plant data storage view 2 under 'General plant parameters' section, called 'SerLevel'. If you read the documentation of that field (F1), it says that if you set the flag to '1', it makes the serial number the same as the equipment record number, which is unique within a client, therefore making the serial number unique as well.

I have our config team looking into this further. Maybe this will solve our GAP without any development effort

[Former Member]

Hi,

i was wondering if this worked? We are looking for the same solution, a unique serial number.

Thanks,