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		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Working with serialized items in Manufacturing</Title>
		<Keyword><Level1>Serialized item</Level1>
			<Level2>handling</Level2>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>Serialized item</Level1>
			<Level2>working</Level2>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>Serialized item</Level1>
			<Level2>Manufacturing</Level2>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>Serialized item handling</Level1>
			<Level2>manual</Level2>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>Serialized item handling</Level1>
			<Level2>automatic</Level2>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>As-built structure</Level1>
		</Keyword>
	</Header>
	<AimSection><Paragraph></Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>During production, operators on the shop floor can link, manually or automatically, serial numbers to end items in a production order and to specific components. This handling of serial numbers in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti" role="package">Manufacturing</GUIRef> is embedded in the production order process. When handling serialized items, the status of the serialized items is changed. For example, when serial numbers are assigned to items, the status changes to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#assigned" role="enum">Assigned</GUIRef>. In addition, the status of the serialized item also expresses other handling of the serialized items, such as rejection, sending to the warehouse, and receiving in the warehouse.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>This topic describes the statuses of serialized items, and how status handling is carried out.</Paragraph>
	</AimSection>
	<GeneralSection><Paragraph>You can view and maintain the status of the serialized items in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/mfc/timfc0110m000#timfc010.stat" role="formfield">Serial Status</GUIRef> field in the <Link href="/baanerp/ti/mfc/timfc0110m000" role="session">Serial End Item - As-Built Headers (timfc0110m000)</Link> session. The possible statuses are:</Paragraph>
		<List><ListItemHead><GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#created" role="enum">Created</GUIRef>
			</ListItemHead>
			<ListItem><Paragraph>The initial status of the serialized end item. The status is <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#created" role="enum">Created</GUIRef> after serialized numbers are generated. This is a moment based on the value of the <Link href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0100s000#tisfc000.serg" role="fieldhelp">Moment of Generating Serial Numbers</Link> field in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0100s000" role="session">Shop Floor Control Parameters (tisfc0100s000)</GUIRef> session: <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/serg#on.printing" role="enum">On Printing Documents</GUIRef>, <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/serg#on.release" role="enum">On Release</GUIRef>, or <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/serg#on.completion" role="enum">On Completion</GUIRef>. If the the value is <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/serg#on.manual" role="enum">Manually</GUIRef>, the status becomes <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#created" role="enum">Created</GUIRef> when the user generates serialized numbers at a moment in the production process determined by the user.</Paragraph>
			</ListItem>
			<ListItemHead><GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#assigned" role="enum">Assigned</GUIRef>
			</ListItemHead>
			<ListItem><Paragraph>The product is finished. A serial number is linked to the serialized item, and the serialized item is ready to be transferred to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef>.</Paragraph>
			</ListItem>
			<ListItemHead><GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#rejected" role="enum">Rejected</GUIRef>
			</ListItemHead>
			<ListItem><Paragraph>The serialized item is rejected in the production order. The serialized item cannot be transferred to as-maintained in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ts" role="package">Service</GUIRef>, and cannot be used in another production order.</Paragraph>
			</ListItem>
			<ListItemHead><GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#sent.to.wh" role="enum">Sent to Warehouse</GUIRef>
			</ListItemHead>
			<ListItem><Paragraph>The serialized item is reported as complete and sent but not yet received in the warehouse. The inbound procedure must still be carried out.</Paragraph>
			</ListItem>
			<ListItemHead><GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#recvd.in.wh" role="enum">Received in Warehouse</GUIRef>
			</ListItemHead>
			<ListItem><Paragraph>The serialized item is received in the warehouse. The inbound procedure is carried out.</Paragraph>
			</ListItem>
			<ListItemHead><GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#recall" role="enum">Recalled from Warehouse</GUIRef>
			</ListItemHead>
			<ListItem><Paragraph>The serialized item is in the warehouse but must be returned to the shop floor.</Paragraph>
			</ListItem>
			<ListItemHead><GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#returned" role="enum">Returned from Warehouse</GUIRef>
			</ListItemHead>
			<ListItem><Paragraph>The serialized item was in a warehouse in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef> but is now returned to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc" role="module">Shop Floor Control</GUIRef>. The outbound procedure must still be carried out.</Paragraph>
			</ListItem>
			<ListItemHead><GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#transferred" role="enum">Transferred to As-Maintained</GUIRef>
			</ListItemHead>
			<ListItem><Paragraph>The serialized item is transferred to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ts" role="package">Service</GUIRef>.</Paragraph>
			</ListItem>
		</List>
	</GeneralSection>
	<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Assigning serial numbers</SectionTitle>
		<Paragraph>You can handle serialized items in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti" role="package">Manufacturing</GUIRef> manually or automatically, which is determined in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0100s000" role="session">Shop Floor Control Parameters (tisfc0100s000)</GUIRef> session by the <Link href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0100s000#tisfc000.absh" role="fieldhelp">As-Built Status Handling</Link> field.</Paragraph>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Automatic</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>If the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0100s000#tisfc000.absh" role="formfield">As-Built Status Handling</GUIRef> field is set to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/absh#automatic" role="enum">Automatic</GUIRef>, the actions a user carries out on the production order automatically result in status changes of the serialized end items. For example, if a number of serialized items on a production order is reported as completed or rejected, the status of those items in the as-built header changes automatically to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#assigned" role="enum">Assigned</GUIRef> or <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#rejected" role="enum">Rejected</GUIRef>, respectively. To report one specific serialized item as completed or rejected, you can insert the item's serial number.</Paragraph>
			<List><ListIntro>Advantages if the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0100s000#tisfc000.absh" role="formfield">As-Built Status Handling</GUIRef> field is <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/absh#automatic" role="enum">Automatic</GUIRef>:</ListIntro>
				<ListItem>You can handle the serialized items for <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti" role="package">Manufacturing</GUIRef> directly in the session in which you report your operation or production order as completed (the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0130m000" role="session">Report Operations Completed (tisfc0130m000)</GUIRef> session, or the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0520m000" role="session">Report Orders Completed (tisfc0520m000)</GUIRef> session). Consequently, you do not need to start an extra session (the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/mfc/timfc0110m000" role="session">Serial End Item - As-Built Headers (timfc0110m000)</GUIRef> session) to handle serialized items.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>You can easily use a scanning device. The scanned numbers are directly entered in the session in which you report the operations or the production order as completed.</ListItem>
			</List>
			<List><ListIntro>Disadvantage if the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0100s000#tisfc000.absh" role="formfield">As-Built Status Handling</GUIRef> field is set to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/absh#automatic" role="enum">Automatic</GUIRef>:</ListIntro>
				<ListItem>If you want to report as completed a number of serialized items with specific serial numbers, you must report these items as completed one by one in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0130m000" role="session">Report Operations Completed (tisfc0130m000)</GUIRef> session, or the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0520m000" role="session">Report Orders Completed (tisfc0520m000)</GUIRef> session.</ListItem>
			</List>
			<ExampleSection><SectionTitle>Example</SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph>Suppose that a production order has an order quantity of five serialized end items. One of the five items is finished. As usual, you report the item as completed in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0130m000" role="session">Report Operations Completed (tisfc0130m000)</GUIRef> details session (on the last operation), or in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0520m000" role="session">Report Orders Completed (tisfc0520m000)</GUIRef> details session. You must enter the serial number of the item in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0130m000#serial.number" role="formfield">Serial Number</GUIRef> field. The serial status of that item in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/mfc/timfc0110m000" role="session">Serial End Item - As-Built Headers (timfc0110m000)</GUIRef> session changes from <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#created" role="enum">Created</GUIRef> to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#assigned" role="enum">Assigned</GUIRef>.</Paragraph>
			</ExampleSection>
			<Paragraph>For detailed information about handling of serialized items with <Emphasis><GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/absh#automatic" role="enum">Automatic</GUIRef>
				</Emphasis> status handling, refer to <Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000364" role="manual">Serialized items on the the shop floor - automatic status handling</Link>.</Paragraph>
		</GeneralSection>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Manual</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>If the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0100s000#tisfc000.absh" role="formfield">As-Built Status Handling</GUIRef> field in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0100s000" role="session">Shop Floor Control Parameters (tisfc0100s000)</GUIRef> session is set to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/absh#manual" role="enum">Manual</GUIRef>, you must first update the status of the items in the as-built header ( <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/mfc/timfc0110m000" role="session">Serial End Item - As-Built Headers (timfc0110m000)</GUIRef> session) before you can complete or reject the items on the last operation of a production order.</Paragraph>
			<List><ListIntro>The advantage if the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0100s000#tisfc000.absh" role="formfield">As-Built Status Handling</GUIRef> field is set to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/absh#manual" role="enum">Manual</GUIRef>:</ListIntro>
				<ListItem>You can maintain and handle several <Emphasis>specific</Emphasis> serial items simultaneously in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/mfc/timfc0110m000" role="session">Serial End Item - As-Built Headers (timfc0110m000)</GUIRef> session. For example, you can reject a number of specific serialized items, or you can set the status to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#assigned" role="enum">Assigned</GUIRef> for a number of specific serialized items.</ListItem>
			</List>
			<List><ListIntro>The disadvantage if the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0100s000#tisfc000.absh" role="formfield">As-Built Status Handling</GUIRef> field is set to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/absh#manual" role="enum">Manual</GUIRef>:</ListIntro>
				<ListItem>You always need two sessions to handle serialized items: First you must change the status of serialized items in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/mfc/timfc0110m000" role="session">Serial End Item - As-Built Headers (timfc0110m000)</GUIRef> session. After that, you must report the items completed or rejected in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0130m000" role="session">Report Operations Completed (tisfc0130m000)</GUIRef> session, or the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0520m000" role="session">Report Orders Completed (tisfc0520m000)</GUIRef> session.</ListItem>
			</List>
			<ExampleSection><SectionTitle>Example</SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph>Suppose that you have finished two items (serial numbers 10400003 and 10400004) out of a production order quantity of three. Usually, you must directly report those two items as completed in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0130m000" role="session">Report Operations Completed (tisfc0130m000)</GUIRef> details session (on the last operation), or in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0520m000" role="session">Report Orders Completed (tisfc0520m000)</GUIRef> details session. However, if the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0100s000#tisfc000.absh" role="formfield">As-Built Status Handling</GUIRef> field in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0100s000" role="session">Shop Floor Control Parameters (tisfc0100s000)</GUIRef> session is set to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/absh#manual" role="enum">Manual</GUIRef>, you must first change the serial status of items 10400003 and 10400004 in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/mfc/timfc0110m000" role="session">Serial End Item - As-Built Headers (timfc0110m000)</GUIRef> session from <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#created" role="enum">Created</GUIRef> to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/mfc.stat#assigned" role="enum">Assigned</GUIRef>. Only then can you report the two items as completed.</Paragraph>
			</ExampleSection>
			<Paragraph>For detailed information about handling of serialized items with <Emphasis><GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/domains/absh#manual" role="enum">Manual</GUIRef>
				</Emphasis> status handling, refer to <Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000363" role="manual">Serialized items on the the shop floor - manual status handling</Link>.</Paragraph>
		</GeneralSection>
	</GeneralSection>
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