| # Sold-to BP versus Owner During the maintenance of an installation, warehouse orders are created to retrieve and send materials from or to the warehouse. If customer owned material is involved and the maintenance is performed to an installation that is not owned by the Sold-to business partner of the order, it must be possible to indicate if the material used is owned by the Sold-to business partner or by the owner of the serialized item. To implement this functionality, the Business Partner of Inventory field is added to the following sessions: Service Order Material Costs (tssoc2122m000) Part Lines (tsmsc1110m000) Work Orders (tswcs2100m000) Work Order Material Resources (tswcs4110m000) Work Order Outgoing Subassemblies (tswcs4150m000) Work Order Incoming Subassemblies (tswcs4151m000) Work Order Incoming Subassembly History (tswcs8551m000) This field can be only set to: Sold-to-Business Partner Owner This field is a display field and is applicable only if the Ownership field is set to Customer Owned. Issue of customer owned materials At the time of maintaining an installation, that is not owned by the Sold-to BP, if the Allow to use Installation Owner instead of Sold-to BP on issue check box is selected in the Maintenance Sales Order, Work Orders and Service Orders sessions, the customer owned material which is available with the actual owner of the installation, can be used. If this parameter is selected and maintenance is performed for an installation that is not owned by the Sold-to BP; the user is allowed to set the Business Partner of Inventory field to Owner instead of the Sold-to BP. This is also applicable for material lines that contain both serialized and anonymous items. If this parameter is not selected, only customer owned materials owned by the Sold-to BP are allowed for the installations. This also applies for serialized and anonymous items. Receipt of customer owned materials At the time of maintaining an installation that is not owned by the Sold-to BP, if the Allow to use Sold-to BP instead of Installation Owner on receipt check box is selected in the Maintenance Sales Order, Work Orders and Service Orders sessions, the Sold-to BP can be used as the owner in the inventory. The item must be received in warehouse as customer owned. If this parameter is selected and maintenance is performed for an installation that is not owned by the Sold-to BP; the user is allowed to set the Business Partner of Inventory field to Sold-to BP instead of the Owner. This is also applicable for material lines that contain both serialized and anonymous items. If the new parameter is not selected, only customer owned material owned by the owner of the serialized item is allowed. This is also applicable for the serialized and anonymous items. Physical Breakdown related changes All items in the physical breakdown are owned by the same business partner. The breakdown changes can be initiated through maintenance sales order, work orders and service orders. The PBS is updated when these orders are processed. When updating the owner of serialized items that are used in a PBS, the owner of the top item of the PBS is also updated. If the owner of the serialized item and the sold-to BP are not the same; the owner of the PBS must be updated. If a serialized item or an anonymous item is removed from a PBS and sent to warehouse as customer owned, the PBS owner or the Sold-to BP of the order can be used for the warehousing transactions. Although the owner in inventory can be modified, the owner of serialized item is always the owner of the PBS. When an anonymous item, owned by the Sold-to BP, is issued as customer owned, from the warehouse and linked to a PBS, the item is owned by the owner of the PBS, thereafter. Parent Item Details If for a material line, the parent Item, Serial and the Position (Parent Item details) are specified, the line can initiate the PBS update. With the help of the parent item and serial number, the owner can be determined. If the parent item details are not available, the PBS is not updated and the sold-to BP must be used as the owner of the serialized item. The parent item, parent serial and the position (‘Parent Item details’) are populated on the service order material cost lines, maintenance sales part maintenance, delivery and receipt lines and on the work order material resources. You can also define the sold-to BP of the order as one of the business partner roles, for the serialized item. To notify the user that a change is initiated for a PBS that is not owned by the sold-to BP of the order, a message is displayed, when the parent item details are specified. Related topics Owner vs User Default Business Partner for Order Impact of Business Partner Defaulting |