Inventory > Serial Tracking System > Browse on Serial Numbers

Browse on Serial Numbers

You use this program to view currently defined serial header details for serialized stock items.

Header details for serialized items are maintained using the Serial Number Header Maintenance program.

Toolbar and menu

Field Description
Functions  
View Transactions Select this to use the Transactions for Serial Number Transactions program to view details of transactions processed against the highlighted serial number.
View Reserved Allocations Select this to use the Reserved Serial Allocations for Stock Code program to view reserved serials for the highlighted allocation.
Options  
Options Select this to indicate selection criteria according to which you want to display serial numbers in the listview.
Preferences Select this to indicate preferences according to which you want to display serial numbers in the listview (see Preferences).
Sequence

Indicate the order in which you want to view the information in the listview from the following available sequences:

  • Serial number
  • Stock code, Warehouse
  • Stock code, Receipt Date

You can indicate the default sequence you require on the Preferences screen.

When the Browse on Serial Numbers program is accessed from a program where the stock code already has been entered (e.g. Inventory Query), the sequence for Browse on Serial Numbers is set to Stock Code, Warehouse. When you run the Browse on Serial Numbers program and simply browse on serials, all the sequencing options are available, but if you have already entered a stock code, then the sequence options are disabled.

Options

You use the Options option from the Options menu to indicate selection criteria according to which you want to display serial numbers in the listview.

Field Description
Apply Options Select this to return to the listview, to display information according to the options you indicated.
Close Select this to ignore any changes you made and to return to the listview. The information in the listview remains unchanged.
Stock codes  
Stock code selection Indicate the stock code(s) for which you want to display the information in the listview.
Warehouses  
Warehouse selection Indicate the warehouse(s) for which you want to include stock items in the listview.
Revision and Release This option applies only to ECC controlled stock items (Stock Code Maintenance). This option is therefore only enabled when the stock codes you selected to include are ECC controlled.
Revision and Release selection Indicate the revision and release for which you want to include stock items in the listview.

Preferences

This screen is displayed when you select the Preferences option from the Options menu.

Field Description
Quantity selection You can only select one of the following options:
Include if on hand zero Select this to include serial numbers with zero stock on hand.
Only show quantity free

Select this to display only serial numbers that have a quantity available.

The quantity free is calculated as: Quantity on hand less Quantity shipped less Quantity reserved.

You typically select this option if you needed to reserve serials, as only serials available to reserve would be displayed in the listview.

Service options  
Unit in service only Select this to display only serialized items that are being serviced.
Unit on loan only Select this to display only serialized items that are on loan.
Unit at depot only Select this to display only serialized items that are at the depot.
Transfer date  
Return last transfer date

Select this to display the date on which the serial number was last transferred into the current warehouse from another warehouse.

You would typically want to view this information in cases where you want to sell the serialized item from a specific warehouse based on the date on which it arrived into that warehouse rather than the date on which it was manufactured/purchased.

Sequence Indicate the default order in which you want to display the information in the listview. This is saved against your operator code.

You can still change the sequence for the run of the program using the Sequence option.

Save Select this to return to the listview, to display information according to the preferences you indicated.
Cancel Select this to ignore any changes you made and to return to the listview.

Listview columns

Column Description
Serial number. This indicates the serial number assigned to the stock item.
Warehouse This indicates the warehouse in which the serialized item is stored.
Quantity on hand This indicates the quantity of items on hand for the serial number.
Description This indicates the description of the stock item that has been assigned to the serial number selected.
Expiry date This indicates the date on which the stock item will expire.
Scrap date This indicates the date on which the stock item must be scrapped.
Location This indicates where the serialized item is stored.
Customer This indicates the customer who purchased stock items associated with the selected serial number.
Customer name This indicates the name of the customer who purchased the serialized item.
Transfer date

This indicates the date on which the serial number was last transferred into the current warehouse from another warehouse.

This is useful in cases where you want to sell the serialized item from a specific warehouse based on the date on which it arrived into that warehouse rather than the date on which it was manufactured/purchased.

This is only displayed if you selected the preference: Transfer date >Return last transfer date (Browse on Serial Numbers).

Notes and warnings

Restricted maintenance

  • You cannot maintain information displayed in this list view if access to the program is set to Browse only but access to the corresponding maintenance program is not allowed (see Security Access).