Find and Reserve Inventory in Maintenix
Explanation
You can find and reserve inventory in Maintenix, for part changes that
must be carried out as a result of performing maintenance, using
the Mobile Maintenance applications.
Inventory can be found and reserved for the aircraft turn or for a
specific
task or fault on an aircraft turn. When you click Find Inventory, you are
required to log in to Maintenix with your user credentials, provided it is
the first time you are accessing Maintenix within a particular login
session, and on logging
in, you are then directed to
the Inventory Search by Type page in Maintenix with the values
for fields set as follows:
| Field |
Value |
| Search Type |
Search by applicability to aircraft. |
| Aircraft |
The registration code (tail number) of the
aircraft on the turn, task or fault |
| Supply Location |
The airport of the aircraft turn |
| Installed |
Uninstalled items only |
| Reservation Status |
Reserved (to steal inventory from
another task) + Unreserved |
| Serviceability |
Serviceable |
The default search values enable you to search for tracked and sub-assembly inventory
when you select
the config slot position. If required you can also change the default value of the Search
Type field to search by part number or serial number for batch, serialized and
kit
inventory.
Once inventory is found, inventory can be reserved provided it meets the
prerequisites for inventory reservation. You can reserve local inventory
where the where needed location is the same as the inventory location, or
reserve remote inventory where the inventory location is not the same as the
where needed location.
If your organization allows stealing of inventory under controlled
circumstances, such as after MOC approval:
- You can reserve inventory that was already reserved which steals the
inventory for a new request and fires off auto-reservation for the
previous request.
- You cannot steal already reserved inventory for a remote
reservation. This means that if some inventory is already reserved at a
local or remote supply location, the same inventory cannot be stolen for
another remote reservation.
Prerequisites
To find inventory:
- You must be online.
- Your system administrator must have:
- granted you access to the Inventory Search by Type
page in Maintenix via the ACTION_SEARCH_INVENTORY_BY_TYPE
permission.
- set the MaintenixConnected property to TRUE on the
Apps-Mtx Config page.
- configured the Maintenix URL for cross application
navigation, between the Mobile Maintenance and Maintenix
applications, on the Apps-Mtx Config page.
To reserve inventory:
- The inventory must not be attached to an aircraft or issued.
- Your system administrator must have enabled the
ACTION_REQUEST_AND_RESERVE_INVENTORY permission setting in Maintenix.
System Effects
- A part request is created in Maintenix for reserved inventory with
values as follows:
- Inventory reserved for a task from the Task Details
page has the value for the Needed By Task field on the part request in Maintenix
set to Mobile Maintenance Task Record ID R01
where R01 is the
Record ID of the task in Mobile Maintenance.
- Inventory reserved for a fault from the Fault
Details page has the value for the Needed By Task
field on the part request in Maintenix to Mobile Maintenance
Fault Record ID R01 where
R01 is the Record ID of the fault in Mobile
Maintenance.
- Inventory reserved for an
aircraft turn from the Aircraft Turn Details
page has the value for the Needed By Task field on the part request in Maintenix to the
Mobile Maintenance Turn.
- Values for the Aircraft and Where
Needed fields are set based on the originating aircraft
turn, task or fault in Mobile Maintenance.
- If you reserve inventory that was already reserved, a warning is
issued that you are about to reserve inventory that was previously
reserved and the inventory is stolen from the previous reservation for
the new request. If enabled, an auto-reservation process then runs to
try and reserve a part for the previous request.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Aircraft Turn Details page
for the turn for which inventory needs to be found and reserved. To find
and reserve inventory on the turn level, click Find
Inventory. Alternatively on the Work Tasks
or Open Faults
menu/tab, click on the task or fault for which inventory must be found, or click Details, to
navigate to the Task Details
or Faults Details page and then click Find
Inventory.
-
On the Inventory Search by Type page in
Maintenix:
- To find tracked or sub assembly inventory, on the Inventory Search by Type
page, in the Config Slot Position field, select the
config slot position on which the tracked or sub-assembly part is to be
installed, and then click Search.
- To find batch, serialized or kit inventory, in the Search Type field, select search
by part number or search by serial number, enter values for the other
required search fields and click Search.
- To reserve found inventory:
- On the Inventory Found tab, select the
inventory to be reserved and click Reserve Inventory.
- On the Create Reservation page, verify that
the information that appears by default is correct and enter any
required information. If an aircraft is not displayed in the Aircraft field, select the aircraft for which the inventory
must be reserved. For batch parts, you can modify the quantity displayed
in the Quantity field.
- Click OK.