Although that is what we have done to create the SN for the Job/Part which is showing as ‘Shipped’…
So, took a Shipped Job in Pilot and went via SN Assignment:
Now I can Close!!
But, I now have a SN left in ‘WIP’ which is possibly worse…
I’m sure that it won’t allow the use of the same SN either - I know that it won’t so we’d have lots of invalid/un-necessary ‘WIP’..
We run into this from time to time. Job needs to close, but original serial is unavailable. Parts are usually shipped and invoiced by the time we get to job review. Since we don’t particularly care about prod qty (it’s a nominal number for our tiny components anyway), we just go to the “Final Op” in Job Adjustment and adjust the qty to whatever the error message needs (in this case 0) and then it will close.