Cindy -
We also have this issue and there really isn't an easy way I've found to do this in Vantage. If you know the parent serial number ahead of time, you can add an extra step to your material issue process and pull up Serial Number Maintenance and use a UD field or SNReference to store the FG S/N. The Serial Number Assignment screen is so different, I haven't begun to think about doing a customization there, but this would obviously be better, flow-wise, if you can figure it out.
I would be interested in hearing what you decide to do.
Kirstin
We also have this issue and there really isn't an easy way I've found to do this in Vantage. If you know the parent serial number ahead of time, you can add an extra step to your material issue process and pull up Serial Number Maintenance and use a UD field or SNReference to store the FG S/N. The Serial Number Assignment screen is so different, I haven't begun to think about doing a customization there, but this would obviously be better, flow-wise, if you can figure it out.
I would be interested in hearing what you decide to do.
Kirstin
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> Does no one need to be able to trace a serialized component to finished good serial number? If so, how do you do in Vantage?
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> Thanks, Cindy
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> > We are currently using Vantage 8.03.408B and are looking to implement bar scanning and serial numbers. We will be serial tracking around 10 component parts and the FG. If our job is for 50pcs of the FG, when we scan the serial numbers for each of the components, we want to match the one of each of the component SN to a specific FG SN. We want to be able to trace a specific component SN item to a specific FG SN item. It was suggested that we could use the standard SN/Bar code system in Vantage if we assign a SN to FG at job release, and then use serial matching to link the SN materials with the FG. I have tried to test this, but I'm not sure if I did it correctly, but it didn't seem to work the way that I expected.
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> > Does anyone use a third party package that integrates with Vantage that is more robust? Or, am I not using the standard package properly? We need to be able to release a job for 100 pieces. We want to be able to track part A (s/n 123) (along with 9 other parts that will be serialized) to a specific s/n in FG within the 100 pieces on the job. We do not want a batch of serialized parts to be linked to the batch of parts within that job. We need much more specific tracking information without setting up each job for one piece.
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> > Any comments/suggestions would be great!
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> > Thanks, Cindy
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