Serial Number Sequence

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Introduction

A product attribute can be a serial number.

Some products require serial numbering to assure compliance with the tracking requirements imposed by the majority of industries which impliest that:

• each unit of a product has always to be linked to a unique serial number.

Number Control

A Serial Number is a unique number given to each unit of a product/item which can be defined to have a prefix or a sufix among other characteristics.

A Serial Number Sequence can be setup:

• by defining the first number or Starting Number that will be used as Serial Number
• by specifiying the value by which the Serial Number will be incremented by.
  In the case of Serial Numbers it will always be "1".
• by defining which is the Next Assigned Number that will be used. Openbravo updates the next assigned number value as the Serial Numbers are assigned.
• by entering a Prefix such as Serial N?/ which easily helps to understand that the number in question is a serial number.
• by entering a Sufix such as /2011 which helps to provide additional information if needed.

Full list of Serial Number Sequence window fields and their descriptions is available in the Serial Number Sequence Screen Reference.

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