| Integration between Purchase Control and Depot Repair |  |
| Depot repair serves to repair or upgrade parts. An integration is established between Service and Purchase Control to support the following depot repair processes: The department that carries out the indoor repairs or upgrades is not equipped with all the necessary repair parts and needs additional parts from a third party. The department that is responsible for the repairs or upgrades hires another company (the subcontractor) to carry out the repair or upgrade. In these two cases, a purchase order must be generated to buy parts or to procure subcontracting. To support both the purchasing of subcontracting activities and the purchasing of additional parts, the Work Control System module of Service can create a work order that posts its requirements to Purchase Control. As a result, the purchase order origin is Maintenance. To purchase additional parts A purchase order is generated of order type Maintenance when the work order is Planned successfully. The additional parts that are received on a purchase order, must be committed immediately. This is for assuring that the goods can only be used by the work order that created the purchase order and not by any other order. This is also called an inventory commitment of the goods for the work order. A purchase order that contains additional items must be released to Warehouse Management. Consequently, Purchase Control passes the order origin, work order, work order line and required quantity to Warehouse Management. In Warehouse Management, the receipts are committed. Warehouse Management will commit the received quantity until the total required quantity is committed for the order. For details, refer to To purchase additional parts. To purchase subcontracting actvities A purchase order is generated of order type Maintenance when the work order is Released successfully. Purchase Control, or Warehouse Management informs Work Control System on the receipt of the item. For details, refer to To purchase subcontracting items. To cancel and delete a work order and related purchase order Independent of the work order's or purchase order's status, in Work Control System, you can always cancel or delete a work order and in Purchase Control, you can always cancel or delete a purchase order. However, no interaction exists between Work Control System and Purchase Control. Both modules are completely independent of each other when it comes to canceling or deleting work orders or purchase orders that relate to each other. Related topics To purchase additional parts To purchase subcontracting items Shop maintenance/Depot repair |