This document discusses serial number management in SAP. It explains that serial numbers uniquely identify individual items and allow businesses to track details like inventory status, repairs, sales, and location for each item. Serial numbers can be assigned at different stages like production, quality inspection, and inventory transactions. SAP provides standard serialization procedures and the ability to customize serial number profiles and management. Key transactions are listed for creating, changing, displaying, and making mass entries to serial number master records.

1. Serial Numbers
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2. Business overview
• SAP serial numbers functionality helps
managing serialized stock. It is mainly
focused on tracking of inventory.
• Serial numbers differentiates material
to material.
• Always Unique

3. 1. blocked or unrestricted inventory status ?
2.Which plant it is available in ?
3. warehouse or at a customer’s location?
4.When and to whom it was sold ?
5.What its warranty coverage is?
6.Whether it came back for repairs and how many times it has
undergone repairs?
7.Whether it came back into the warehouse as a return ?
8.Whether it was it resold after being refurbished ?
9.Whether the item was installed at a customer site or it was kept
dismantled?
Business can record and track many types information for each
individual material with help of Serial number

4. Logistics Application
It is available across the application in
SAP system.
01
Production application
Assign serial numbers during
production
02
Quality mgmt. application
Serial numbers assignment during
Quality inspection processing
03
Business Assigns serial numbers at various stages of process.
Inventory mgmt. application
capture serial numbers during various
transactions resulting from,
04
 Goods receipt
 Stock issue
 STO
 Physical inventory
processing

5. Standard SAP provides with 10 Serialization procedure.

6.  SAP System that involves setting up a Serial
profile and assign the required serial number
procedure.
 Same serial profile assign in MMR of the
material.
Customizing the Serial Number
Management

7. Deciding the scope of customization
—
 What specific areas of business do you want to
implement serial number management for?
 What materials need serialization?
 How are the serial numbers to be assigned to a serialized
unit?
 Do you need special user statuses to track the
whereabouts of the serialized unit?
 What partners need to be captured?

8. Maintaining a Serial Profile
The transaction code is OIS2, and the menu path is IMG ➢ Sales and
Distribution ➢ Basic Functions ➢ Serial Numbers ➢ Determine Serial
Number Profiles.

9. Assign the Serialization procedures:

10. Maintaining Serial Numbers Master Record:
You maintain a master record for each serialized unit in the SAP system. You can set up the serial number
master record by using transaction code IQ01 or by following the SAP Easy Access Menu Path: Logistics
Sales and Distribution Master Data Products Serial Numbers.
IQ01 CREATE SERIAL NUMBERS
IQ02 CHANGE
IQ03 DISPLAY
IQ04 CREATING S.N.’S VIA LIST ENTRY
IQ08 MAKING MASS ENTRIES
IQ09 DISPLAY WORK LIST

11. Controlling Serial Number Management:

12. OTC Process:
VA01

14. Delivery. VL01N

16. serial number list with transaction code IQ03

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