Classification of Serial Number / Equipment at GR

[cw78]

Hi Guys,

what kind of scenario would you suggest for the following requirement:

Customer purchases electronic parts via MM. These parts are handled as serial numbers / equipments in the system (for the use of As-built Configuration at customer sites). As these parts are posted GR, the vendor will send over a file containing the external serial numbers and additional information like Software Release version of the single pieces. This information should be stored in a characteristic (class 002 for the equipment). I know the possibility of manually reading an external file at the time of goods receipt for getting the serial numbers into the system, but how and when should I create the classification for each and every single serial number /equipment. Any ideas? My suggestion was a downstream Z-transaction after GR, where to read the file again and create/fill the classification of each equipment via BAPI. Any ideas about userexit at the time of GR posting, creation of equipments in background,...?

Thanks for your support

Christian

[vicbalboa1]

I would advice to create serial number/equipment in advance, before GR. After serial numbers have been created and classified, then perform GR indicating corresponding serial numbers.

[peter_atkin]

Why not create a bbatch program that reads the GR documents for the required fil data. Then create the equipment classification.

You could thn schedule the batch program to run periodically (say each night).

PeteA