Just curious what folks out there like to advise their clients about the logic of each Number Series.
For example, in CRONUS NA, there are a wide array of documents that simply have a 4 or 6 digit number, then others have prefaced numbers with characters representing the document type. I've also seen people embed date data into a No. Series to have the documents be clear (such as SO11-0051 is the 51st Sales Order of 2011).
What do you like to do for the different areas and why? Master records (customers) vs documents (SO's)?
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For our clients we are using logic as "Document Type + Financial Year+ Sr. No." i.e. SO/10-11/00001.
Because it helps to find document type, financial year and we reset no. series every year by changing FY.
Related Master No. Series you can use Prefix "C" for Customer. For. Ex. C000001 or You can take initial/shortform of Customers Name (Manual No. Series).
Even master date makes no difference (customers/vendors/items, etc), it's just a value to uniquely identify a record, you should never attach any more logic to it than that.
Everything else should really be done by attributes. You want all invoices in 2011, set a filter on the posting date. You want all orders in a certain region, add a region field, or use dimensions. You're only complicating matters by adding logic to numbering series.
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For master data, there is no need to give some logic in them.
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Thanks - I wasn't sure where to make it live, since it's product specific, but also business logic chatter. :thumbsup:
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