diff --git a/app/static/js/create_item.js b/app/static/js/create_item.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bd7f848d275ce21b202c050ba6e8a15e603d6415
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/static/js/create_item.js
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+$(document).ready(function() {
+
+  // Focus to ICS id when loading the page
+  $("#ics_id").focus();
+
+  // remove 'CSE:ics_id:' prefix from ICS id
+  // allow to scan a label
+  $("#ics_id").keyup(function(event) {
+    var value = $(this).val();
+    if( value.length == 17 ) {
+      $(this).val(value.replace('CSE:ics_id:', ''));
+      // Change the focus to the serial number
+      $("#serial_number").focus();
+    }
+  });
+
+  $("#clear").click(function() {
+    // clear all select fields
+    $("select").val('');
+  });
+
+});
diff --git a/app/static/js/items.js b/app/static/js/items.js
index 017947a717814f39a20207db18d38055af964c86..0574112d2050b53b062d37f912eda1400e7dbfe4 100644
--- a/app/static/js/items.js
+++ b/app/static/js/items.js
@@ -32,20 +32,6 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
     $(this).html(converter.makeHtml(raw));
   });
 
-  // remove 'CSE:ics_id:' prefix from ICS id
-  // allow to scan a label
-  $("#ics_id").keyup(function(event) {
-    var value = $(this).val();
-    if( value.length == 17 ) {
-      $(this).val(value.replace('CSE:ics_id:', ''));
-    }
-  });
-
-  $("#clear").click(function() {
-    // clear all select fields
-    $("select").val('');
-  });
-
   var items_table =  $("#items_table").DataTable({
     "ajax": {
       "url": $SCRIPT_ROOT + "/inventory/_retrieve_items"
diff --git a/app/templates/inventory/create_item.html b/app/templates/inventory/create_item.html
index 5cc2e4e2828a542c9f06d0d8cabd54aba0d2c9d4..a42ae78f3f6b199d09c2db45789567f4302f38fc 100644
--- a/app/templates/inventory/create_item.html
+++ b/app/templates/inventory/create_item.html
@@ -23,3 +23,7 @@
     </div>
   </form>
 {%- endblock %}
+
+{% block csentry_scripts %}
+  <script src="{{ url_for('static', filename='js/create_item.js') }}"></script>
+{% endblock %}