SERIAL NUMBER TRACEABILTY

[sundaresan_velayudam]

SERIAL NUMBER TRACEABILITY

In case of any complaint or recall issue from the customer, then we need to track what are all the materials used to manufacture the lot and trace the same.

In Batch management, we can track the raw material used for production through batch by using MB56 (Batch where used list) or In BMBC (BATCH cockpit); where as in serial number, there is no provision to track like batch management.

For serial number managed material we need to create additionally AS Built Configurations to track the serial number.

PROCESS

Once the production of the material is carried out

1) Create an Installed base – With reference to production data in COIB

Enter the material and serial number and click explode

After enter the component serial number and click transfer

The same way we can create  a link for dependent material

Enter the material and serial number and click explode

After entering serial number, click transfer

And click the save button.

Select the Create/Change as built in foreground

2)  Once the material is returned back from the customer due to any complaint

Go to  IH20 or IH22

Enter the finish material no and serial number & execute

You will find the installation base no.

With reference to installation base no, we can display the dependent material serial no linked with 300305

Go to IB53

And enter

We can find the all the serial no of the dependent materials which is assigned to material 300305 & serial no 2.

Thanks for visting the blog, appreciate your comment/ feedback.

Regards,

Sundaresan.E.V

[Anupam1143]

Nice document..

Good work Sundaresan,

Regards

Anupam Sharma

[sundaresan_velayudam]

Dear Anupam,

      Thanks a lot

[former_member184655]

Dear Sundaresan,

Good document which is related to an area where really people struggle to get some

useful information...

I hope this will be much useful to everyone..

Regards

Mangalraj.S

[sundaresan_velayudam]

Dear Mangal,

     Thanks a lot,  I am great fan of you.

During my intial career in SAP, i have followed your answer in SCN, Thanks a lot of sharing your knowledge.

Regards,

Sundaresan.E.V

[former_member184670]

Dear Sundaresan,

Good document with clear screen shot. Thanks for sharing.. .

Regards,

Sundhu

[JasonLax]

Thanks for sharing your content on SCN. However, I have to point out that this should have been posted as a document and not a blog.

Please see The Difference between a Discussion, Blog Post, Document and Wiki

[sundaresan_velayudam]

Thanks Sundhu

[sundaresan_velayudam]

Thanks Jason, I will rectify my error in next post

[former_member224273]

Hi Sundershan,

                      Congrat  for nice document on serial no. managemnt. But  post it as document so that if sone one would like to download, he would be able to do so.

Thx

Bhupendra Singh

[JasonLax]

You can download this: int he actions box on the top right, click View as PDF.

[sundaresan_velayudam]

Thanks Bhupi

[Former Member]

Hi Sundaresan,

Good informative document. Thank you.

regards

Rijil

[Former Member]

Hi Sundaresan,

Good informative document. Thank you.

regards

Rijil

[sundaresan_velayudam]

Thanks Rijil for your comment and rating

[Former Member]

This is really useful document for me and other Junior consultants.

Thanks Man!!!

Regards,

Ramakrishnan.A

[sundaresan_velayudam]

Thanks Ram

[former_member210771]

Good Document on Aa built configuration, Thanks for adding screens.

easy to understand and practise compare to http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_06/helpdata/en/a5/63198843a211d189410000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

[sundaresan_velayudam]

Thanks Chin Yang for your comment

[former_member223028]

Good document...

Thanks for sharing

[sundaresan_velayudam]

Thanks Abu for your rating and comment

[Subh]

Hi Sundaresan,

                        Very helpful blog, thank you.

Regards

Sm

[sundaresan_velayudam]

Thanks Sm

[Former Member]

Hi Sundaresan,

                     thanks for the your contribution, its nice to understand the serial no. management.

[Former Member]

HI Velayudham ,

                      Good doc you have posted. This is a major addressing of most of the PP related equipment/serial number GI/GR. I want to know whether this can be with different Serial numbers.PLz let me know.

Regards,

Praveen

[Former Member]

Hi velayudam and other Gurus,

                                                    I have tested this in my development of ECC 6.0 with different SERNR and getting COIB015 error. I do not see any error message for this. Need to test in 4.7. Velayudam in which version I were succeeded ?

Regards,

Praveen.

[sundaresan_velayudam]

I am Using in ECC 6. I never encounter this problem in ECC 6.

[sundaresan_velayudam]

Thanks Atul

[sundaresan_velayudam]

Thanks Praveen,

Assign the issued serial no to the main serial no

[Former Member]

Dear Velayudam,

                            In my scenario  I am issuing serial number to another serial number. Suppose, my FG will have one serial number (different ) and my BOm components will have different serial numbers. So that I can track my FG material-SERNR and SFG-SERNR relation. This way I want to test. Any way I am using standard classification to capture this data but want to check whether this is useful than updating in the Equipment type class for SFG SERNR.

Appreciated your suggestions.

Regards,

Praveen.

[sundaresan_velayudam]

You can assign the different serial no  of BOM component to FG serial no

[svs_sap]

Hi Sundaresan,

Good document. Thank you for sharing.

Regards,

Sharat

[sundaresan_velayudam]

Thanks Sharat

[Former Member]

Nice document, Sundaresan

Regards,

Senthil

[Former Member]

Hi sir, Good document, very helpful.

Thank you,

TK

[former_member183783]

Hi, sundaresan.velayudam

If a company produce thousands of materials per day,how to setup this linkage ?Any mass creation solutions?

[sundaresan_velayudam]

In OPK0- You can link the serial no assignment. while confirming the operation, you can link the serial no assignment or create a simple BDC for COIB transaction

[former_member183783]

OPK0,where can Ilink the serial no. assignment ?would you give me more information..

[sundaresan_velayudam]

In OPK0- select area selection

In Area- select the serial no assignment, This assignment will link the As Build configuration of serialized assembly  in confirmation screen

[former_member183783]

thanks..Sundaresan...

so the serial number assigment during confirmation is usually used for small production orders? if we have tens of production qty to confirm,then we should use BDC...

[sundaresan_velayudam]

yes

[Former Member]

Nice Work Sunderesan. I have a question.  You are entering serial number 2 of FG material for compoennets as well. How you track actual serail numbers of compeoennet then? Is this 2 used same for FG and compoenent for illustration purpose only? or it needs FG serial numbers at compoenent level? please clarify.

Thanks,

Santosh

[Former Member]

Hi,

It is valuable document,

thanks for sharing,

Regards,

Devendra

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for sharing this document.   How does this integrate with Production Order process. In other words, if we hab a production order to build the assembly and issue components of certain serial number and receive assembly with its serial number, can we still create install base as outlined in this document and co-exist?

Thanks

V Divakar

[sainpr03]

Hi,

i am working on SAP PP ,module can you help to trace the Production order serial number any TCODE for this ? ( if i want to check the hierarchy for same with the help of serial number)

[ozibtissam]

Good document.

Thank you for sharing .

[VigneshV]

Hi try to use COOIS t.code.

Also you can use IQ09 to list all the serial numbers or need to go for a custom Z report.

Vignesh V