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SERIAL  TRACKING

SIMMS' Serial Number Tracking feature manages a limitless combination of serial numbers from the time they

are received into inventory, through the time they are issued, and retains an historical record permanently. This

enables inventory control personnel access to a wealth of historical and validation information.

With SIMMS, each single item—from the tiniest pin to the largest kit (BOM) in your stock—can bear two distinct serial numbers at the same time. Here is a summary of the features available:

• Automatically generate serial numbers (and/or "user" serial numbers) with ease
• Assign serial numbers to items during (or immediately following) the receipt of goods
• Easily assign serial numbers to a sale transaction
  
• Easily select serial numbers during an inventory transfer
• Easily assign serial numbers for kit (BOM) components during a kit build
• Assign serial numbers to finished kit builds
• Enter or sell serialized items randomly or sequentially
• Drill-down and view serial numbers related to items received/transferred and/or sold
• Track specific costs by serial numbers sold
• Easily integrate a barcode reader for items with serial number barcodes
• Report on serial number activity by date, location or serial number
• Trace any serial number in the system with ease

The serial number tracking features give you complete tracability of items.

Detailed below is a high level overview of some of the features available:

Receiving Goods

When you receive items into inventory that are marked as using serial numbers you are presented with a grid where

you can scan or key in the serial numbers

With all items that you have specified use serial numbers you can allocate two serial numbers. You can also

get SIMMS to generate serial numbers for you automatically and use SIMMS inbuillt barcoding functionality

to print the labels.

Selling Goods

When you sell an item that is marked as using serial numbers you select the serial numbers available from the

system simply by ticking the serial number that has been issued

Service and Returns

SIMMS also has a fully featured service and returns modules. When you are doing a Return Merchandise

Authorisation (RMA) you can just scan or enter the serial number and the system will show you who the item was sold to

Tracability

With the SIMMS item trace report all you have to do is enter the serial number and you can get the complete history of an item