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Serial Number Example: Shipment

 

Create a 9 digit serial number with the first two positions alphanumeric, the next four numeric, and the last three alphanumeric.  It will look like this:  AANNNNAAA.

The first two positions will always be SN (for serial number), the next four positions will be an incremented number, the last three positions will be the warehouse where this part is typically stored.  Set up Reference File category G78 for this type of serial number.  See the illustration below.

 

WILLIAMS                       COMMON FEATURES                        12/14/92

 DSP01                    REFERENCE FILE CATEGORY G78                    CHANGE

                                                                               

                   Category Name        SERIAL NO NUMERIC POSITN               

                                                                               

                                        PRODUCT CLASS                          

                   Category Key         SN                                      

                                                                               

                                                                               

            NUMERIC STARTING POSITION          NUMBER OF NUMERICS              

       Data            03                              04                      

                       NN                              NN                      

                                                                               

                                                                                

       Data                                                                    

                                                                               

                                                                               

                                                                               

       Data                                                                    

                                                                                

                                                                               

 F2=Command          F3=Exit             F9=Inquiry          F10=Function Select

 F12=Lower Case      F15=Rekey Data                                            

                                                                               

Your customer, World Cereal Corporation (WORLD), needs a cereal shipment.  They want Corn Crunch and Sugar Bombers, both serial controlled parts.  Ship two truckloads of cereal to WORLD.  One truck contains Corn Crunch and the other Sugar Bombers.  There are 1000 boxes of cereal in each truckload.  Each box must have a unique serial number.  Corn Crunch is stored in warehouse CRN and Sugar Bombers in warehouse BOM.

Two shipments, each from a different warehouse, going to the World Cereal Corporation.

 

The Shipping and Billing conversation is shown below.  Enter this conversation to ship WORLD their cereal.  The Serial Number Assignment Window automatically appears when you ship serial controlled parts.  Use the generation feature in the Serial Number Assignment Window to generate all serial numbers.  Enter the Begin Serial Number (SN0001CRN) and the Quantity to Generate (1000).  See the figure below.

 

WILLIAMS     CO  001          ORDER PROCESSING                 USD    12/14/92

 DSP01        WHS CRN    OPEN ORDER SHIPPING/BILLING                 MULTI-LINE

 Bill-to WORLD        WORLD CEREAL CORPORATION       Order  004448 00   Type REG 

 Ship-to WORLD        WORLD CEREAL CORPORATION       Ord-by             Sts OPN

 Lin L                                                        Stk Loc/     Bal 

 No  S   Part Number   Type  Resv Qty  UM  Whs   Ship Qty  UM Lot No       Type

  .-------------------------------------------------------------------------.  

  |                        SERIAL NUMBER ASSIGNMENT                         |  

  | Doc No 00444800 Type SO     Ship-to  WORLD        Co  001 Whs CRN       |  

  | Lin No 001      Part No CORN CRUNCH         Tran Qty    1000.000 SKU EA |  

  |                                             Total Qty          0        |  

  | Begin Serial Number   SN0001CRN             Qty to Gen      1000        |  

  |                                                                         |  

  |    Serial Number            Serial Number            Serial Number      |  

  |                                                                         |  

  |                                                                         |  

  |                                                                         |  

  |                                                                         |  

  |                                                                         |  

  |                                                                         | +

  | F3=Exit                                                                 |  

  |                                                                         |  

  '-------------------------------------------------------------------------'  

 

Once you enter these values press Enter, the Serial Number Assignment program will generate the requested numbers.  The generated serial numbers are shown in the following figure.

 

WILLIAMS     CO  001          ORDER PROCESSING                 USD    12/14/92

 DSP01        WHS CRN    OPEN ORDER SHIPPING/BILLING                 MULTI-LINE

 Bill-to WORLD       WORLD CEREAL CORPORATION       Order  004448 00   Type REG

 Ship-to WORLD       WORLD CEREAL CORPORATION       Ord-by              Sts OPN

 Lin L                                                        Stk Loc/     Bal 

 No  S   Part Number   Type  Resv Qty  UM  Whs   Ship Qty  UM Lot No       Type

  .-------------------------------------------------------------------------.  

  |                        SERIAL NUMBER ASSIGNMENT                         |  

  | Doc No 00444800 Type SO     Ship-to  WORLD        Co  001 Whs CRN       |  

  | Lin No 001      Part No CORN CRUNCH         Tran Qty    1000.000 SKU EA |  

  |                                             Total Qty       1000        |  

  | Begin Serial Number                         Qty to Gen         0        |  

  |                                                                         |  

  |    Serial Number            Serial Number            Serial Number      |  

  | SN0001CRN                SN0002CRN                SN0003CRN             |  

  | SN0004CRN                SN0005CRN                SN0006CRN             |  

  | SN0007CRN                SN0008CRN                SN0009CRN             |  

  | SN0010CRN                SN0011CRN                SN0012CRN             |  

  | SN0013CRN                SN0014CRN                SN0015CRN             |  

  | SN0016CRN                SN0017CRN                SN0018CRN             | +

  | F3=Exit                                                                 |  

  |                                                                         |  

  '-------------------------------------------------------------------------'  

The serial numbers created from this window would range between SN0001CRN and SN1000CRN.  Likewise, the Sugar Bombers' serial numbers will be SN0001BOM through SN1000BOM once generated.