Generate Serial Number Reservations for Shop Order

Explanation

Use this activity to automatically generate serial numbers and reserve them to a shop order, or a shop order requisition for a part with Auto Generate Serial Numbers enabled.

When reserved to a shop order requisition, the serial numbers are transferred to the shop order created from the requisition. The reserved serial numbers are used when the system receives parts into inventory.

To generate serial number reservations from:

A message will indicate the generated serial numbers.

Prerequisites

System Effects

As a result of this activity, the generates serial numbers and reserves them to the shop order or shop order requisition. The logic will identify the highest existing serial number for the part and start the generation from the highest existing serial number +1.