Confirmation for serial numbers is now supported in 10.0.37 Microsoft Dynamics 365 SCM

In this blogpost I am going to walk through the new feature released in 10.0.37 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.

Before this feature is introduced, it was possible to confirm only batch numbers for the products where batch number is above the locations in the reservation hierarchy. This functionality was not available for serial numbers.

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For many organizations, especially for the manufacturing processes, it is highly important that picker picks the right product. Without this feature picker might take a different serial number then the one specified in the work line and he didn't have a way to confirm the serial number that was reserved for the picking work.

In 10.0.37 a new configuration was introduced: 

• Go to Warehouse management > Setup > Mobile device > Mobile device menu items 
• Select Sales picking mobile device menu item
• Select Work confirmation button
• Serial confirmation parameter is displayed.

Limitations and considerations:

• Serial confirmation is supported only for serial above items
• It is not supported for piece by piece picking

Now let's walk through the example. 

First of all, we need to created Serial above reservation hierarchy. 

• Go to Warehouse management > Setup > Inventory > Reservation hierarchy
• Create a new one and select serial number above the location.

Then let's create a product with enabled serial number tracking dimension and serial above reservation hierarchy. 

We also will need on-hand for this product. I am going to add 3 ea for 3 different serial numbers S1, S2 and S3

It is time to create a sales order. 

Create sales order with product.

Reserve inventory and release to warehouse.

You will notice that work is created

As you can see, the system is reserving S1 serial number, so worker will be guided to pick up this specific serial number.

Let's now log in to the mobile device and do the picking.

I will start by navigation to Work list to see all open works.

Select the work with the serialized product created previously. 

System will ask to scan the License plate. 

Now the system asks to confirm serial number. This step is displayed because we activated new configuration - Serial confirmation on the mobile device menu item. 

If you scan a serial number that doesn't match to the serial number on the work line - you will get an error message. 

If it matches, the next step to scan target LP will be displayed. 

And the rest steps are typical for the picking process and not related to the new feature. 

Confirm the put step.

Once you confirm - work completed message will be displayed

That's it!