Maintaining Serial Number Information

You can view location, job, and serial state information, as well as update supplier information that is associated with your serialized units.

arrow icon   To display serial number information:

  1. Navigate to the Serial Numbers window. The Find Serials window appears.

  2. Enter search criteria. If you do not enter any search criteria, then the system queries for all serial numbers.

    Attention: If you want to view serial numbers across organizations, you must clear the Organization column.

  3. Click Find to display the serial number and item information in the Serial Numbers window.

arrow icon   To view location and job information:

  1. Click the Subinventory / Job tab.

    This region contains the serial number, item number, current organization, revision, subinventory, locator, job, current operation, current step, and lot. You cannot edit these fields.

    Attention: The Job field displays only open jobs that are currently in the process of building the serial unit.

arrow icon   To view the serial information:

  1. Click the Serial Info tab.

    This region contains the serial state, status, receipt date, ship state, and associated attributes.

    The inventory state of the serialized unit can be: defined but not used, resides in stores, issued out of stores, or resides in intransit.

  2. Modify the status if needed The available choices are:

arrow icon   To update supplier information:

  1. Click the Supplier tab.

  2. Enter the supplier name, lot number, and serial number information.

  3. Save your work.

arrow icon   To view the unit number of a serialized item:

  1. If Oracle Project Manufacturing is installed, and you enabled end item model/unit effectivity, then you can click the Unit Number tab to view the unit number of a serialized item. See Model/Unit Effectivity, Oracle Project Manufacturing Implementation Manual.

arrow icon   To view the serial genealogy of a serialized item:

  1. Click View Genealogy. See Viewing Serial Genealogy.

arrow icon   To view material transactions for a serialized unit:

  1. Select a serialized item.

  2. Click Transactions. See Viewing Material Transactions.

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