Enable Serial Tracking for Engineering Parts

 Explanation

Use this activity to enable serial tracking for a part that starts out in IFS Engineering. 

Prerequisites

• An IFS/Part Catalog record must exist for the part.
• The unit of measure for the part must be PCS or another unit of measure that is defined with a unit type of Discrete and is registered in the IFS/PDM Configuration Product Basic Data/Defaults.  
• If the serial part is in a PDM structure, all parent parts must also be serial parts with the After Delivery Serial Tracking flag set. (The flag, Inventory Serial Tracking, may be optionally set.) 

System Effects

• The part will be defined as a serial part (a part with serial tracking).
• If the Inventory Serial Tracking flag is set, the part will have a serial number in the inventory and throughout the life cycle.
• If the Inventory Serial Tracking flag is set, it will be mandatory to enter serial numbers when receiving purchase orders or shop orders. A serial part record for the part is created in the serial catalog when a shop order or purchase order is received.
• The system will automatically create serial part tables for the serial part in IFS/Vehicle Information Management ( VIM) and IFS/Project Delivery.
• If the Inventory Serial Tracking flag is set and the serial numbers will be used in Project Delivery, the serial numbers will be reserved in the delivery structure and transferred to the corresponding shop order when the order is created. If only the After Delivery Serial Tracking flag is set, you will be allowed to set serial numbers on the items after they are issued from Inventory. 
• If the serial numbers will be used in VIM, the serial numbers will be displayed in the VIM serial windows and will be inserted automatically into the serial catalog. These serials will have an In Facility status. (These serials do not have an In Inventory status because they are not created as a result of a purchase or a shop order receipt in inventory, most vehicle components typically never exist in inventories, and therefore need only the After Delivery Serial Tracking flag set. Although some serial components in a VIM vehicle may have the Inventory Serial Tracking flag set as well.)  

Windows

Part

Related Window Descriptions

Part
Part/General

Procedure

To enable serial tracking for an engineering part:

1. Open the part record in the Part window and click the General tab.
2. Select the After Delivery Serial Tracking check box, if not previously selected. (This check box must be selected to enable serial tracking for engineering parts.)
3. Optionally, select the Inventory Serial Tracking check box, if not previously selected. (You cannot select the Inventory Serial Tracking check box unless you also select the After Delivery Serial Tracking check box. Selecting both check boxes enables "full serial tracking" for the part. )
4. Save the record.