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With this release, Oracle WMS enhances your serial number tracking capability to support the tracking at the item level and tailored tracking levels for different items. This enhancement is available across all screens, RF transactions, Input Interfaces and APIs where serial tracking support is offered.

By configuring your desired serial number tracking levels, you enjoy a more granular control by keeping tabs on specific items in the course of your warehouse operations.

For example, you might require end-to-end tracking for primary/high-value goods but for secondary goods/bundled accessories, you might want to track the serial numbers only during packing. Now, you can easily configure the tracking levels for different items differently using the supported methods.

This decentralized approach to serial number tracking gives you the advantages of:

  • Better localization capabilities – You will have more precise control over the movement and storage of serialized items. This makes it easier to manage and locate them.
  • In addition to using the serial tracking capability uniformly at the Company level, with this feature, you enjoy a greater flexibility in managing different items in the inventory.

To track the serial numbers of desired items, you can configure the Item UI dropdown options or interface a payload via Input Interfaces, supported RF transactions as well as APIs.

We’ve introduced a new dropdown field that lets you configure the serial number tracking level at the detailed Item screen. The following table represents the levels of serial number tracking that you can deploy as per your requirement:

SERIAL NUMBER TRACKING LEVEL

DESCRIPTION

0

No Serial Tracking

1

Track only at Packing

2

End-to-End Tracking

This enhancement also introduces a new field called “Serial Number Tracking Level” (serial_nbr_tracking_level) in the Input Interfaces file as well as JSON. So, you can configure the Input Interfaces via supported payload formats (.xls, .psv and .xml or JSON) to make use of serial number tracking at the item level.

You can also make use of supported APIs to configure the serial tracking level of items.

URL

POST...wms/lgfapi/v10/stage/item

SERIAL NUMBER TRACKING LEVEL MATRIX 

COMPANY PARAMETER VALUE

ITEM SERIAL TRACKING LEVEL

BEHAVIOR

0

0

 Serial check will not be performed.

1

0, 1
  • 0 – Serial check will not be performed.
  • 1 – Serial check will be performed at 'Packing Only'.

2

0, 1, 2
  • 0 – Serial check will not be performed.
  • 1 – Serial check will be performed at 'Packing Only'.
  • 2 – End-to-End Serial Tracking.

NOTE:

  • The prompt for serial numbers is determined by comparing the Company Parameter tracking level and the item’s serial number tracking level. Here, the precedence is given to the minimum value between these two fields.

  • Invalid configurations will not be prevented proactively by the system.

  • Erratic switching of company/item serial tracking levels might not result in expected behavior. Hence, it is recommended to set the configurations at the Company/Item levels for optimal use of serial-tracking in the long term.

Steps to Enable

  1. From the Items UI, select the desired Serial Tracking Item.
  2. Click the Item Detail button.
  3. Click on the Serial Number Tracking Level drop-down and select the Tracking Level.