this conference will now be recorded so we will be starting our next topic that is serial numbers topics that we are going to cover there we will see working with serial numbers of creation of serial numbers stock check okay creation of serial numbers in the system and then we will see customizing of serial number profile okay we will see the configuration part also Okay so first we will start with introduction to serial numbers we will understand what is serial number why it is used okay assigning a serial number to a piece of equipment enables the equipment to be managed from an inventory management perspective so let's say you want to see this inventory stock of equipments then you should maintain serial numbers for the take okay and to make the serial number assign the serial number you need a material okay enter a material that has all that already has serial number profile for the serialization of individual pieces of equipment in the equipment Master record so that means to maintain the serial numbers for a equipment you have to first create it as a material and that material should have the serial number proof serial number two okay when you assign a serial number in the equipment Master record the print is linked with a material and serial okay so the moment you assign a serial number there will be linking with material also I will show you this in the system okay material coupled with the equipment with the material in the construction type field of the equipment this I can show you so yesterday we posted some stocks okay so third time we created equipments in the background if you see here the first one I I created manually but these two are got generated this one got this one I have created manually okay but these two got generated automatically so suppose if I go to this one middle one you see here if you go to structure you see there is a field called construction type construction type field is nothing but material code of the equipment okay now how many digital generators are there totally three one two three so now for this you can check the stock because it is already created as a material suppose if I go MMB enter the material code this is a material code plant 1710 okay execute you see stock is three we have a stock of three and if you if you right click if you go to equipment serial number you can see see these are the material codes material code is of course same these are the unique serial number and here you can add the equipment on the report 20. see this is the equipment numbers okay now to see the serial number dub in the I'll go to equipment Master if you go to equipment master if I go to structure sorry not structure you go to serialization data you see here this is a material number and a serial okay so like this you can assign the serial number to the now what we will do we will create a serial number first and then activate the equipment that we will do okay so material coupled with the equipment with the material in the construction type field of the equipment that I already showed you the construction type field in the equipment Master is nothing but its material code okay serialization thus enables Inventory management of pieces of it so so main use of using serialization is to manage the inventory and also to assign a unique number to each equipment so this is the one you see here there is a material there is a material with stock four pieces so for each stock each piece you are saying a unique serial number and at the same time it will have the from CS perspective it will have an equipment so combination of material serial number and Equipment number this is unique okay combination of people first material code material plus serial number this is unique serial which is unique so that is the one we need to understand okay so now let's go ahead this is the one we are talking about so serial number you can enter in the equipment Master record in the serialization data tab where you can enter the material and serial number serial number in the in the this tab serialization data tab okay let me show you again so I am in the equipment Master this is my equipment in the equipment in the serialization data tab in the tab in that view in the tab you can see the material number and its serial number this you can see okay and I'll come to this history also in a minute I will come to this history also in a minute okay so now let's create the serial numbers manually okay so to create a serial number manually I will use a transaction the transaction code is IQ 0 1 create material and serial number this is the T code to create manually serial number first and from there we will activate the equipment View okay so enter the material enter the serial number so as of now we already used 1 0 is the serial numbers we used so far do we have the serial number here serial number out we have serial number okay so already we this is a different material equipment you just leave it so these three already serial number one zero zero three is used so let's use next one one zero zero four okay and I want to create service category service customer equipment entered so this is how you create a what you call serial number manually okay so what you do you enter stock type zero one plant plant is one seven one zero and the storage location is one seven one e so this is how you create a you create a serial number manual manual iq01 okay you can enter the customer data but customer data we will enter later because we still it is in our client only we are not selling it to outside but it sold outside to the customer so this is how you create a material and serial number so let me save this first okay and it should create a equipment should create save okay so serial number created now if you go to change if you go to change so equipment is not it created now we will active will create the equipment so from the screen you can create a equipment so to create equipment you see here there is a button activate equipment again click on it okay so now it will create a equipment say it is creating equipment okay so now you have to activate see now all the tabs have gone previously there was only one tab only two tabs now all the remaining tabs outcome so now you just maintain the data object type diesel generator we give the dates location okay go to organization you give normal method of equipment creation you can give the cost center all those stuff okay done structure we will discuss tomorrow and you see construction type field automatically getting populated here this is nothing but material this one and here if you go to serialization data tab both will be same here it is not there but there is nothing but the material code okay then you save it then you see it so now equipment got created so now if you go to equipment master what was the equipment what was the equipment this is equivalent right now I'll go to equipment master ie03 ie03 okay this is a equipment see it is created with customer equipment category and if you go to structure this is the construction type nothing but material code and if you go to serialization data tab you see this is a material code and this is the serial number serial number and if you go to history if you click on that as of now there is no history because we have not yet posted into the stock okay this is created manually the serial number okay now this we created it manually this equipment but I want to make this in the inventory so as of now if you see in the inventory it is showing only three