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Reply from rnewton484 on Dec 9 at 10:46 AM From a warehouse perspective, my experience has been there is no pro. To capture serial numbers serves more the needs of the Service and Quality business functions than the warehouse. Others may have different experiences and see pros with serialization at the WM due to how their business operates. Here are some cons and some pros based on the business I work for (High Tech industry):
CONS
1. Capturing serial numbers consumes warehouse manpower resources, especially if your setup requires capture during receiving, movements within the warehouse and on the outbound with shipping.
2. Capturing serial numbers in SAP using standard transactions like LM80 (RF capture) may fall short of your needs and customization to enhance the process may be needed. In the 2 companies I have worked for, one customized LM80 (made into Z transaction) and the other we created custom transactions from scratch for both WM (RF designed screen) and IM (GUI designed screen). Customization always means maintenance costs with IT and inefficiencies/errors in programming could impact the business.
3. Using RF to capture serial numbers will require that you maintain the RF infrastructure (network and hardware), plus software management (ITS Mobile or SAPConsol). This adds costs to the business for both IT and the warehouse.
4. Errors in business processes can cause delays in shipments due to having to resolve serial number issues before a shipment can be made. There are a number of different scenarios I have experienced with troubleshooting serial numbers during shipping. Not often if your business processes are solid, but it does happen even with good processes in place.
PROS
1. Service business can track product life cycle. A serial number record associates itself with an equipment record (display IE03) and the 2 (SN & Eqp records) work hand in hand to provide Service teams a means to track a units current status, it's history and warranty info if that applies.
2. Quality teams can also use to track the product life cycle from their perspective if batch management is not used to track.
3. The business can track the radio data of RF products via the equipment records, associated with the serial number to provide customers with advanced info on radio data for units shipping to them. Example: we maintain IMEI number, MAC address, Bluetooth number, ESN and other data on a unit within the equipment record using class and characteristics in the equipment record. When that equipment/serial number record ships to a customer we send them the unit info so they can setup their network in advance of the unit arriving.
4. If there is a need to track the location of a unit at all times, then serial numbers can be used with handling units and handling units used in storage processes to combine together to tell you exactly where a unit is in the warehouse from receipt, to storage to shipment.
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From: neobat
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 2:32 PM
Subject: Pros and Cons of Using Serialized Materials in a WM Environment
Hi all,
What's Prons and Cons of using serialized materials in a WM environment?
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