Lot/Serial Sale through Sales Order Module not showing in Lot/Serial Transaction history

Hi all,


We have serialized equipment that we sell through Sales Order - Invoice, choosing the serial number to be sold and removed from inventory on this invoice. It is removed from the inventory on the main inventory table but does not record a transaction in the Lot Serial Transaction history table nor is it removed from Physical inventory. I can go in through DFDM and see the Qty on Hand in IM_Physical and see that there is not a sale transaction in the Lot Serial Transaction History.

In a test company I have rebuilt all of the IM key files, tried adjusting the inventory through a Sales transaction in Transaction entry, and even adjusted the IM_Physical table in DFDM to read 0 Qty on Hand. Rebuilding key files did not change anything, the sales transaction made our Qty on Hand in the inventory table go negative, and changing in DFDM corrected the Qty on Hand on the Physical Count sheet but the serialized item still showed as available in the transaction entry screen.

I also tried the utility IM_BalanceLotSerTrans_Utl which told me that nothing was out of balance.

We are using Sage 2014 and upgraded in October from version 4.5. Interestingly, this does not appear to have happened since we upgraded to 2014 and I can see SO transactions in the Lot Serial Transaction history in DFDM after the upgrade but not before. This has been an ongoing issue that doesn't cause huge problems but is beginning to pile up. We do not have issues balancing the GL, it is only in the Physical count sheet and Lot Serial Transactions where this is an issue.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

  • 0
    It shows in the physical count sheet?? Have you tried unfreezing inventory and refreezing it?
  • 0 in reply to TomTarget
    Yes it does show there and we don't ever freeze our inventory to use the Physical Count sheet. We only use it for this smaller set of serialized equipment and there are sometimes items within one month where we have sold them and they show up. This is ok for our uses. But they should go away after the month has closed. There are pieces on here sold in 2014! In looking at the transaction records I am seeing now that it may have been something related to our version of 4.5. We had SO entries in Serialized Transaction History until we upgraded to 4.5 then after we upgraded to 2014. No SO entries during the time we were using 4.5. Very weird!
  • 0 in reply to jbraun001
    Clarification. They are showing on the physical count sheet with a pre-populated count or they are just being listed on the physical count sheet (no count)? (Later versions of the physical count sheets allow for printing what the system claims is on hand).

    If the first option is true, there is definitely a problem. If the second option true, I believe they show up until empty layers are purged.
  • 0 in reply to TomTarget
    With a pre-populated count. And I can see a qty on hand in DFDM - IM_Physical for items that were sold years ago. I also just discovered that It is showing correct on the Inventory Valuation by Period Report but incorrect on the regular Inventory Valuation report. Does anyone know what tables these reports pull their data from? I'm guessing work tables but where do they get their data from?
  • 0 in reply to jbraun001
    Do you have any third-party enhancements?
  • 0 in reply to BigLouie
    We have a couple but none related to Lot/Serial tables. We have a custom enhancement from SWK to Auto Generate BoM requirements and Credit memo application to Sales Order and Invoices. We previously used JobOps but uninstalled it during one of the upgrades (with the direction of our reseller). Maybe this is related to that?
  • 0 in reply to jbraun001
    Hmm... stranger yet. Might be worth burning one of your 5 annual support calls with Sage and getting tech support involved.