Product Extended Serial Formatting Setup overview

Some barcodes on vendor packaging contain additional characters that are not part of the product’s serial number. These additional characters can cause errors when the barcode is scanned or manually entered inDistribution SX.e.

CR records identify a vendor number, the data (characters) to be removed, and the beginning position of the data within the serial number. When a serial number is entered into Distribution SX.e, it is compared to the CR records. The vendor number is used to locate applicable CR records. When you specify the serial number and no vendor is identified, the ARP vendor from the Product Warehouse Product Setup record is used. If the ARP Vendor is not identified, CR records cannot be located.

If a record applies to a serial number, the characters must be in the sequence identified in the Data field. The first character of the data sequence must located in the correct position within the serial number, the characters are removed from the serial number. More than one CR record can be applied to the serial number.