We have been live on Epicor 10.1 for about 14 months.
We are now to the point where our Order numbers are 6 digits (100111 for example) which we’re finding is way too similar to our Pack IDs and Misc Shipment Pack IDs (also 6 digits) - there is confusion on if you are talking about an order or a Pack or a Misc Pack.
Does anyone know if there is a way to change the starting number for Misc Shipments, or maybe add a prefix such as M to the beginning of the Misc Shipment Pack IDs to make it like M100000 to try to eliminate this confusion we are having?
In E9 it just incremented from the largest packnum found, so I just set an old one to 80000 and it went from there. It is an integer so that is all you can really do. E10 may handle differently, but you can try it in your test db.
@gpayne it is the same in E10 You might be able to adjust the numbering sequence for one type using the method that you indicated (or a datadirective on update) but a customisation would be needed to implement a new way to differentiate between the two, using Alphanumeric labelling as required by @lgraham reason: numeric fields.