Serial Number search

davealfa

hi!

can you search for a Serial No (or Tracking No) when you don't know the Item No?

At invoicing (or ordering) stage, our client would like to search by the serial no, instead of first selecting the Item number then the serial number.

ideally they would scan the serial number & the item is automatically found.

any ideas?!?

thanks
Dave

kapamarou

I am not aware of anything similar so you would have to develop it.

It'll need quite some work I think.

davealfa

thought so ..... but was hoping that there is an easy solution

Alex_Chow

In version 5.0, the Navigate screen allows you to search by serial and/or lot number.

davealfa

do you need to switch any setup options to have this available?

Alex_Chow

No, it's available by default. The database I'm seeing this is the NA database.

David_Singleton

Alex Chow wrote:

In version 5.0, the Navigate screen allows you to search by serial and/or lot number.

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Wow I can't believe I didn't notice that. Not that I use serial nos much, but that's a great improvement. Thanks Alex. BTW it's also in W1.

At this rate Serial numbers may one day be usable in Navision

davealfa

hi!

i've opened a Cronus database in ver 5, went to FM - Receivables - Invoices, but cannot see how i can enter the serial number instead of having to first enter the Item No, then the Item tracking Lines.

could you tell me what i'm missing?

thanks
dave

kapamarou

You can't.

You'll need to develop it...

davealfa

but in one of the above posts, Alex said that it's there by default

kapil4dynamics

kapamarou wrote:

You can't. You'll need to develop it...

Go to posted any purchase or sale doc and click on navigate , see the last tab on top.

Alex_Chow

kapamarou wrote:

You can't.

You'll need to develop it...

No, you don't need to develop it. It's there out of the box.

One of the way to get to the Navigate screen is by clicking on:
Sales & Marketing --> History --> Navigate

This screen is also available in the History folder in all other modules.

davealfa

That's for posted invoices (which is also useful).

But my problem is when you're entering a new invoice/order & the user knows the Serial No of the item but not the Item no. Can the user just enter the Serial No of a product instead of having to first find the Item no?

Dave

Alex_Chow

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Alex_Chow

kapamarou wrote:

You can't.

You'll need to develop it...

you're right. It needs to be programmed.

jbra

Keep in mind, depending on your dataset, is is VERY possible to have duplicate serial numbers - typically different products from different vendors. We see that quite often.

kine

And what about "Warehouse-History-Item Tracing"? You just enter the Ser. No filter and it will find all entries for this serial no. and you can look at what you need...