Serial Number Management Within Plants

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I have a doubt with the following scenerio.

X material A plant -> Serial number management active...Serial numbers generated within REM confirmations...

X material B plant -> Serial number management is not active...

Material X goods issue from plant A to plant B within outbound delivery with serial numbers

Material X goods receipt to plant B from plant A within outbound delivery without serial numbers...

Is it possible that a material X have serial number management in plant A and no serial number management in plant B? System checks serial number profiles must be the same between plants while goods issue from plant A to plant B.

Regards,

techmaster,

[Former Member]

Thanks Jeevan,

Thread closed.

Regards,

techmaster,

[sjeevan]

Your description of the problem is confusing. According your description both plant A and plant B will have some materials which has some parts which have serial numbers and some won't. How do you issue out the parts from those plants incase you have to sell them or issue to production for consumption?

If you want all parts in plant A with serial number and all parts in plant B without serial numbers no matter if the parts are moved between plants then you would have to create a serial number profile (Tcode: OIS2 ) assign it to plant A only in the material master of the material in transaction code S_ALR_87000310 you need to define flow group and assign it to serial number profile and to the movement type used for inbound receipt from B to A (option 03 : serial no. usage obligatory).

[Former Member]

Thanks Jeevan,

1.) I assigned a serial number pofile to material in plant A.

2.) I create a purchase order in plant B.

3.) A outbound delivery created in plant A to plant B.(from reference of purchase order)

When i try to goods issue from plant A to plant B from delivery an error occurs as below.

E M7 174

Diagnosis

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.

System Response

The above situation is not allowed.

Procedure

Cancel the current processing step.

Check the serial number profiles in the material master record, if required.

Proceed

Regards,

techmaster,

[sjeevan]

According to SAP consulting note it is not possible in standard SAP and highly not recommended to implement enhancements.

Refer to notes 53229

1519543 (below)

Symptom
    You cannot transfer a serialised material from one plant to another due to an error.
    Error 'M7174 Serial number profiles different in plant YYYY & and in plant ZZZZ' is issued.
Environment
SAP Release Independent
Reproducing the Issue
    In transaction MM01 create a serialised material in plant YYYY, assigning the material to serial profile 0001.
    In transaction MM01, again create the same material number for plant ZZZZ and assign the material to the serial profile 0002.
    Within transaction MIGO, transfer the material from plant YYYY to plant ZZZZ using movement type 301.
    Error 'M7174 Serial number profiles different in plant YYYY & and in plant ZZZZ' is issued.
Cause
    Please refer to the SAP note 53229. At present, the program logic of the serial number management can only process one serial number profile at a time. 
    The error in question E174 is hardcoded within the program 'MM07MFU0_UMLAGERMAT_PRUEFEN'.                                                                                
Program MM07MFU0_UMLAGERMAT_PRUEFEN              
        ...                                                                                
IF NOT DM07M-SERNP = MBEFU-SERNP.                                      
            MESSAGE E174 WITH MSEG-WERKS MBEFU-WERKS.                 !!!        
          ENDIF.                                                                 
        ...       
Resolution
Please refer to the SAP note 53229.
The serial number profiles of the receiving and issuing plants must be identical.  
The restriction is put in place in order to avoid inconsistencies for the material / serial numbers.
SAP do not recommend that you customise the system to by-pass this error, as this posting could lead to inconsistencies in the follow-up movements (i.e. if, for instance, you post from Plant A - having a 'must-serialization' to Plant B, where the serial number profile has been set to 'no-serialization' for material movements).    

[Former Member]

Sorry,

I think this thread must be under MM category.

Regards,

techmaster,