You can track your jobs using serial control throughout the manufacturing process. This enables you to assign and associate serial numbers to a job, and track the assembly by serial number as it progresses on the shop floor. Serial number tracking is enabled for discrete jobs, both standard and non-standard. This feature also includes:
Association of serial numbers to jobs at job release
Serial control beginning at a specific point in the routing
Serial based transaction entry
Import and auto-generation of serial numbers
Serial number label printing
You can view the genealogy of the serialized assembly including component issues and returns, and assembly completions and returns. See: Viewing Serial Genealogy
Serial tracking for work in process transactions is only supported in the online mode through Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications.
Completed serialized assemblies can be reserved as supply sources using the Item Reservation window in Oracle Inventory. A reservation record is created by selecting and reserving specific serialized assemblies against a sales order line. See: Item Reservations, and Auto Reserve Serial Numbers on Job Completion
Serial control for items is defined in Oracle Inventory. Work order serial tracking for assemblies is set in the Work in Process Parameters window.
Specify the serial control type as Predefined. This value is defined in Inventory attribute, Serial Generation.
Work in process serial tracking is only enabled when you use the value of Predefined. See: Inventory Attribute Group.
Establish the type of serial number uniqueness for your organization in the Oracle Inventory Organization Parameters window.
Your options for serial number uniqueness are Within inventory items, Within an organization, or Across organizations. See: Defining Revision, Lot, LPN Serial Parameters
Optionally, you can predefine serial numbers in Oracle Inventory.
You can generate serial numbers using the Serial Number Generation concurrent program, see: Generating Serial NumbersYou also have the option to generate numbers from within the Associate Serial Numbers window.
Several parameters are set in the Serial tabbed region of the Work in Process Parameters window. See: Defining WIP Parameters
Default Serialization Start Operation
Determines the job operation where serial number tracking begins. The serial start operation on the item routing is always copied to the job routing during job creation. If there is no serialization start operation on the item routing, and this parameter is enabled - the serialization start operation is defaulted to the first operation on the job routing, This value displays on the Discrete Jobs window. If this parameter is not enabled, the serialization start operation on the job routing is blank, and serialization is disabled.
Auto Associate Serial Numbers
You can use this parameter to determine if serial numbers are automatically generated and associated with a job when the job is released. The job start quantity determines the number of serial numbers created. Choices are
On Job Release: Serial numbers are automatically generated and associated with a job when it is created and released.
Never: Serial numbers are not automatically generated and associated with a job. Use parameter Auto Reserve Serial Numbers on Job Completion for another option for associating serial numbers.
Default Intraoperation Step for Assembly Moves
This parameter is used for move transactions on a serialized job. It defines a default value for the intraoperation step where you are moving assemblies - the To step. Your choices are Queue, Run, To move, and Null. The following table shows the next move for Default Intraoperation Step values in this parameter.
| Default Intraoperation Step Value | To Step for the Next Move Transaction |
|---|---|
| Queue | The next Queue step in the routing |
| Run | The next Run step in the routing |
| To move | The next To move in the routing |
| Null | A default step is not set, you must specify the step in your move transaction |
Example One
There are three operations in a serialized job -10, 20, 30. Operation 10 is the Serialization Start Operation, and the Default Intraoperation Step for Assembly Moves is set to Queue.
The first time a serialized move is performed, the From Operation and From Step are set to 10 Queue because the assembly is still at 10 Queue.
The To Operation is defaulted to the next count point operation, and the To Step is defaulted to Queue because the parameter is set to this value.
If all the operations are count point operations, the first transaction moves from 10 Queue to 20 Queue, and the second transaction moves from 20 Queue to 30 Queue.
Example Two
There are three operations in a serialized job -10, 20, 30. Operation 10 is the Serialization Start Operation, and the Default Intraoperation Step for Assembly Moves is set to either Run or To Move.
The first time a serialized move is performed, the From Operation and From Step are set to 10 Queue because the assembly is still at 10 Queue.
The To Operation is defaulted to the From Operation because the value for Default Intraoperation Step for Assembly Moves is later in the routing than the current step (that is, Run and To Move takes place after Queue),
If all the operations are count point operations, the first transaction moves from 10 Queue to 10 Run or To Move (depending on the default value). The second transaction moves from 10 Run or To Move, to 20 Run or To Move.
Transaction Processing Mode
This parameter has two settings: Online and Background. For serialized transactions, this parameter is ignored and will always use the Online setting.