Setting Up Serial Number Control
Before you can use serial number control, you must perform setup activities.
To set up serial number control:
1. Establish serial number control for an item.
You can establish serial number control for an inventory item when you define it. You can choose from No control, Predefined serial numbers, control At inventory receipt, or control At sales order issue. See: Inventory Attribute Group.
2. Establish serial number uniqueness.
You use the Organization Parameters window to choose a type of serial number uniqueness for your organization. You can choose to enforce uniqueness Within an organization, Within inventory items, or Across organizations. Uniqueness applies only to the organization establishing the type of control.
For example, suppose organization A establishes Across organizations as its serial number uniqueness type. Organization A cannot use a serial number already used by organization B. However, organization B, with a different type of control, can still use serial numbers already used by A. Thus, you would want to establish Unique across organizations for all organizations when you use it for one organization. See: Defining Organization Parameters.
3. Optionally, create predefined serial numbers.
If you specified Predefined as the serial number control type for an item, you must predefine serial numbers for that item using the Generate Serial Numbers window. If you specified entry At inventory receipt or At sales order issue, you can optionally predefine serial numbers for the item.
Oracle Inventory uses the starting serial number prefix and the starting serial number you specify in the Item window to load the number of predefined serial numbers you request. You can load as many serial numbers as you want for any item under serial number control. See: Generating Serial Numbers.
See Also
Assigning Serial Numbers
Maintaining Serial Number Information
Serial Number Assignment
Serial Number Control
