Enter Inventory Or Non Inventory Part

Explanation

Use this activity to plan material lines that is required for a PM action by adding it to the Work List/Materials. You can adjust the expected material requirement during planning. You are allowed to enter inventory parts as well as purchase parts.The material planning is then copied to the work order that is generated from the PM Action. If a work task template containing information about materials is connected to the Jobs and Templates tab, that information will be displayed here. For a work task template, you cannot adjust the expected material requirement during planning.

Prerequisites

• Inventory parts must be defined in IFS/Inventory. 
• Purchase parts must be defined in IFS/Purchasing.  
• If the material is to be connected to a job/ work task template, the jobs/ work task templates must have been defined on the Jobs and Templates tab prior to connecting the material to the PM action.

System Effects

As a result of this activity, a material line connects to the Work List of the PM action.

If the PM action is active, material demand is posted for inventory parts and purchase requisitions are created upon the scheduled task is run for non-inventory parts.

Pages

Work List for PM Action

Activity Diagrams

Prepare PM Action