About Maintenance Execution Finance

Explanation

Maintenance Execution Finance gives finance controllers and MRO planners end-to-end visibility and control over maintenance costs for both hangar and line maintenance work packages. Costs reported during maintenance execution flow through finance transactions, authorization, transfer to accounting, and voucher creation using the standard IFS Cloud finance framework.

The finance capability supports:

• Reviewing work package and task costs on work package commercials pages, with links to underlying finance transactions - see View Work Package Commercials (hangar) and View Line Maintenance Work Package Commercials
• Pre-Post Aviation Maintenance - accounting values at work package and task level before all finance details are finalized. The Cost Center comes from CAMO; see About Cost Center for Aviation Maintenance
• Searching, reviewing, and authorizing transactions - see About Aviation Task Transactions, Authorize Aviation Task Time Transactions, Authorize Aviation Task Tool Transactions, and Authorize Aviation Task Expense/External Transactions
• Transferring transactions to IFS/Accounting Rules by cost type - see Transfer Aviation Task Transactions, Transfer Reposting Aviation Task Transactions, and Rerun Erroneous Aviation Task Postings
• Reposting when pre-posting or accounting setup changes - see Reposting Aviation Task Transactions and Check and Update Accounting of Transaction
• Analyzing postings on the Aviation Task Posting Analysis page - see About Aviation Task Transactions

Who Uses This Capability

• Finance controllers - authorize transactions, run transfer assistants, handle reposting, and review vouchers
• MRO planners and finance users - review costs on work package commercials, manage pre-posting, and trace transactions before authorization

End-to-End Finance Flow

1. Technicians report costs against aviation tasks (personnel time, tools, materials, external costs, or expenses).
2. The system creates an Aviation Task Transaction for each cost line. See About Aviation Task Transactions.
3. Finance users review costs on work package commercials or Aviation Task Transactions. For hangar work packages, see View Work Package Commercials. For line work packages, see View Line Maintenance Work Package Commercials.
4. The finance controller Authorizes the transaction. See About Aviation Task Transactions.
5. The finance controller runs the appropriate Transfer assistant for the cost type. A voucher is created in IFS/Accounting Rules. See Transfer Aviation Task Transactions.
6. If pre-posting or accounting setup changes after transfer, the transaction is Reposted and transferred again. See Reposting Aviation Task Transactions.
7. When the aviation task is closed and no further changes are needed, the transaction is marked as Finally Posted. See Manually Set Aviation Task Transaction to Finally Posted and Remove Finally Posted on Aviation Task.

From the voucher, the standard IFS Cloud general ledger update process applies. No maintenance-execution-specific steps are required beyond transfer.

Work Package Commercials

Review work package and task costs on the commercials pages:

• Hangar: Hangar Maintenance Work Package Commercials - see View Work Package Commercials
• Line: Line Maintenance Work Package Commercials - see View Line Maintenance Work Package Commercials

Posting Control

Your finance consultant configures how maintenance execution costs post to accounts and code part values on the Posting Control page. For each posting type, choose the control type that determines how posting rules are matched.

Posting Types

Maintenance Execution finance uses the posting types below. For full descriptions, system events, and general posting control concepts, see Posting Types and System Events - Service and Maintenance.

Posting Type	Description	Module
T67	Pre Accounting Work Package	ADCOM
T57	Pre Accounting Work Task Section	WRKTSK
T1	Time Reporting	WRKTSK
T2	Counter Time Reporting	WRKTSK
TO1	Time Reporting Overhead	WRKTSK
TO2	Counter Time Reporting Overhead	WRKTSK
T5	Time Reporting-Non Company Employee	WRKTSK
T6	Counter Time Reporting-Non Company Employee	WRKTSK
TO5	Time Reporting Overhead-Non Company Employee	WRKTSK
TO6	Counter Time Reporting Overhead-Non Company Employee	WRKTSK
TF1	Tool/Equipment Cost	WRKTSK
TF2	Tool/Equipment Counter Booking	WRKTSK
TE1	Maintenance Manual Expenses	WRKTSK
TE2	Maintenance Manual Expenses Counter Booking	WRKTSK
TP1	Maintenance Manual Purchase	WRKTSK
TP2	Maintenance Manual Purchase Counter Booking	WRKTSK
TP3	Invoiced Task Purchase Cost	WRKTSK
TPM	Manual Invoiced Task Purchased Cost	WRKTSK
TP65	Invoiced Task Purchase Charges	WRKTSK
M50	Issue on Work Task	WRKTSK
M51	Issue Addition	INVENT
M52	Revenue Issue Addition	INVENT
M144	Material Receipt on Work Task	WRKTSK
M207	Issue Part to Repair on Work Task	WRKTSK
M208	Receipt of Repaired Part on Work Task	WRKTSK

Control Types

Aviation-specific control types include:

• Airport
• Maintenance Type (line versus hangar)
• Aircraft Type
• Aircraft Tail
• Task Class
• Task Subclass

The Personnel Resource Group control type is also used for personnel time transactions.

When posting depends on more than one control type, use combination control types or specification control types to define posting rules. See Enter Posting Control Information and Posting Control - General.