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Serial number in the Equipment Master record

Former Member
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Hi Everybody,

The scenario is we are assigning the serial number to the material in the outbound delivery application. Once the delivery is done, the equipment master is created with the Equipment category as E and all the informations related to the material such as the serial number are assigned in it.

We successfully tested the process in the sandbox client and now we are configuring this in the Golden client. When I create the equipment master record now with the already created serial number, the system throws an error message, "Serial number already exists for the material".

Is there any configuration step we are missing in the serial number profile or in the Equipment related data?

Thanks & Regards,

Srinivasan.K

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Former Member
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Hello Srinivasan

1) Are you using the "Eqpt" checkbox in the 'Maintain Serial Numbers' window to create the Equipment in the background when the delivery is saved? Or you are just entering the Serial number and trying to create the Equipment manually using IE01 post-delivery creation? Your question is not clear, If you are doing the latter, do the former.

2) Did you check if the Material- Serial Number combination already exist for some reason using IQ03 whenever you got the message.

Let me know.

Former Member
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Hi Chandrasekar,

We don't want to create the equipment master automatically when creating the delivery. It should be manually created because the equipment number should be the same like serial number and the production order. It should be an external number range and the format would be material number '-' Production order number. The material serial number already exists since we will give that in the delivery. The existing serial number should be linked with the equipment after that.

Thanks & Regards,

Srinivasan.K

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Well, I tested with the process you described in my system and it went without any glitch,

Since you tested without any issues in your sandbox, compare the config settings for Serial Number profiles and Equipment category in both systems.

1) SPRO/IMG/Sales and Distribution/Basic Functions/Serial Numbers

2) SPRO/IMG/Plant Maintenance and Customer Service/Master Data in Plant Maintenance and Customer Service/Technical Objects/Equipment/Equipment Categories.

Also I have a process question for you, what is preventing you from creating the Eqpt. while creating the Material- Serial Number ( IQ01) using the 'Activate Equipment Data' tab with a cracker symbol? Why should it be after delivering it?

Former Member
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Hi Chandrasekar,

The production order, the serial number and the equipment master should have the same numbers. For eg: R000494-1000023 where the first part is the material number and the second part is the production order number.

I cannot able to create the equipment master from the serial number master since it will not create an equipment with the same number as required.

Anyways, the client agreed to create an equipment number different than the serial number. So we have no problems to create an equipment by clicking the equipment activate button from the serial master.

Issue is solved now. Thanks for your response.

Srinivasan.K

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