What is the Difference Between Lot & Serial Number in Odoo 17

In Odoo, both lots and serial numbers are used for tracking inventory, Now we can take look into about the difference between the lot number and serial number through this slide.

1. What is the Difference Between Lot & Serial Number in Odoo 17 Enterprise

2. Introduction Enterpr ise In Odoo, both lots and serial numbers are used for tracking inventory, Now we can take look into about the difference between the lot number and serial number through this slide. let's get into the inventory module in order to manage with the lot number and serial number.

3. Enterprise In the inventory module configuration settings we need to enable the option for lots and serial numbers so that we can have complete traceability of the product moved from vendor to customer or customer warehouse.

4. Enterprise In detail, Lot number are used to identify a group of identical products. The same lot number applies to all the items within that group. This is useful for managing stock levels, performing quality control on a batch, or tracing groups of products during manufacturing. The Serial Numbers for uniquely identify individual products. Each item would have its own distinct serial number. This allows for highly detailed tracking throughout the product life cycle , from receiving to delivery and even after-sales service.

5. Enterprise In the case of a product, there will be Lot numbers and a serial number, so the packages option can be enabled from the configuration settings to put the products in parcels or boxes. We can easily track them by setting lot number for this package.

6. Enterprise Now consider a product with zero onhand quantity. Under the inventory tab we can set the product traceability. Product traceability can be set to 'By Lot' to handle product in lots.

7. Enterprise In the packaging section under the inventory tab in the product, we can create the product packaging and set the quantity and type of packaging that the packaging contains.

8. Enterprise After that let's go to the purchase module and see how to manage the lot number of a particular package. Creating a Purchase Order and Setting the Quantity. W hen setting the product quantity, the order will automatically set the packaging quantity using its unit and name.

9. Enterprise After validating, It receives the quantity of products into the warehouse and can find it under the Traceability. It shows which Lot has moved to warehouse from vendor to the stock.

10. Enterprise Now lets see how can we manage the serial number for the same products itself. So for that we can just go to the product and change the Tracking to By Unique Serial Number.

11. Enterprise Then we can create a new serial number, for that we can just move on to ‘ More’ option where we can click on new let's create a serial number.

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13. Enterprise We can only use existing serial numbers when we place a sales order. Now let's go to the sales module and create the order and confirm it with the same product. The serial number will be automatically configured by odoo at the time of delivery of the item.

14. Enterprise From 'Delivery' we can see that the transfer is ready and here we can see that Odoo has automatically configured the lot number but we need to consider that the serial number is individual to sell the product. It can be validated by selecting the serial numbers we have already configured for the same product.

15. Enterprise After validating the Delivery we can get the Traceability Report of the Product using the Serial number by clicking Traceability button.

16. Enterprise Product tracking can be easily managed using the serial and lot number for a particular product from the traceability report.

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