View Material Demand

Explanation

This activity is used to view the material required for the maintenance visit. When a task card or subtask is added to an event on the maintenance order, all connected material will be retrieved. This makes it possible to view requirements early and take necessary action. For instance, reserve or peg required material to ensure the material will be available when work starts.

When the visit has started and material transferred to a work task, it is possible to reserve and issue the parts. In addition, it is possible to specify additional material demands on the work task. When the work task is finished, issued quantities and costs will be transferred back to the material on the maintenance order (or serial order history if the maintenance order has been moved to history). If there are additional material that have been issued, this information will also be transferred.

The following table describes how material is transferred back to the maintenance order when the work task for which it was issued is finished:

Action	Transferred to Maintenance Order (or Serial Order History)
Material is issued against a transferred material demand (i.e., from the maintenance order)	The corresponding material demand line on the maintenance order will be updated with issued quantity and cost.
A material demand has been added to the work task and issued	A new material demand line will be added to the maintenance order with issued quantity and cost.
A transferred material demand has been removed from the work task	The original material demand line will remain on the maintenance order with 0 issued quantity and cost.

Planned and issued quantities on the material demand lines can be used to analyze the actual utilization as opposed to planned utilization.

Prerequisites

The maintenance order must exist in the Under Preparation status or higher.
An event must be connected to the maintenance order, and at least one task card must be connected to the event.
Material requirements must exist for the task cards and subtasks connected to the event.
To view costs for issued material, the corresponding work task must have been finished.

System Effects

As a result of this activity, material requirements can be viewed and planned for at an early stage of the maintenance visit. Costs of utilized material can be viewed once the work is completed.

Window

Maintenance Order

Related Window Descriptions

Maintenance Order
Maintenance Order/Maint. Order Str.
Maintenance Order/Maint. Order Str./Material Required
Maintenance Order/Exec. Logic
Maintenance Order/Exec. Logic/Material Required

Procedure

To view material demands on the maintenance order:

Open the Maintenance Order window and search for the required order number.
Click the Maint. Order Str. tab or the Exec. Logic tab depending on the context in which you are working.
Select the relevant node in the graphical object structure, and then click the Material Required tab.
View information on the material required to perform maintenance.